xemacs 21.1.14

[David Black_5]

I have just installed xemacs (downloaded from
hpux.connect.org.uk), after setting up SHLIB_PATH and PATH I get the following errors:

WARNING:
Couldn't find an obvious default for the root of the
XEmacs hierarchy.
WARNING:
Couldn't find obvious defaults for:
doc-directory
data-directory
exec-directory
Perhaps some directories don't exist, or the XEmacs executable,
/opt/xemacs/bin/xemacs
is in a strange place?Cannot open load file: /opt/bintmp/xemacs-21.1.14/lisp/auto-autoloads

Why is xemacs looking in /opt/bintmp? Do I need to change config.el or am I missing a symlink ? I have read various documents about
this which do a mixture of symlinking and mods to some lisp code startup.el, setup_path.el, findpath.el etc. Surely this shouldn't be necessary.
I have installed on a HPUX 11.11 system.

Thanks for any advice
Dave Black

[generic_1]

I would create some sym links to the directories its looking for. I dont remember if that was the exact version I used, but I do remember having similar problems. It is not the most user friendly depot install :).

[David Black_5]

Thanks Jeff, your're certainly correct about
this particular depot, my problem is that
I cannot find out what directories it is looking for.When I symlinked /opt/bintmp/xemacs-21.1.14/lisp to /opt/xemacs/lib/xemacs-21.1.14/lisp I get the xemacs window up but it is still not finding other lisp code plus it still complains about doc-directory, exec-directory and data-directory. Being new to xemacs I am not sure where to symlink to.
Another thing the command options do not work, I tried -debug-paths to try and find out what xemacs is looking for.
If you can remember what you symlinked that would help

Thanks
Dave Black

[Michael Tully]

Before installing this package, did you look at, and did you install the run time dependencies? These are:
jpeg libpng tiff xpm zlib

They are listed here on the download page:
http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Editors/xemacs-21.1.14/

[David Black_5]

Hi Michael, yes I did install the dependencies listed, plus we all already had zlib

Dave

[David Black_5]

After tracing with tusc I found that symlinks for etc and lisp in /opt/xemacs to
/opt/xemacs/lib/xemacs-21.1.14 allowed xemacs to find all its root paths and start.
BUT, now I get "Symbol's function definition is void" messages. Is this yet another missing symlink ??
Any ideas?

Dave Black

[David Black_5]

OK, this seems to be because of missing packages, I didn't realise I needed to download those as well, so I'll try again
after installing the basic packages.

[David Black_5]

Xemacs seems to work fine now after installing the packages, there are certain funnies but I seem to have answered most of my own questions.
Hopefully this will help anyone who has similar problems later on.
Dave Black