xemacs configuration

[Sachin Patel]

I am trying to install xemacs on 11.00 system

I have install following depots
jpeg 6b jpeg
libpng 1.2.5 libpng
tiff 3.5.7 tiff
xemacs 21.1.14 xemacs
xpm 3.4k xpm
zlib 1.1.4 zlib

Then I try to run xemacs I had number of dld.ld can't find error so I had to create links in /opt

libpng -> /usr/local lrwxrwxrwx 1 root sys 10 Oct 2 12:50 zlib -> /usr/local lrwxrwxrwx 1 root sys 16 Oct 2 12:50 bintmp -> /opt/xemacs/lib/ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root sys 11 Oct 2 12:50 xpm -> /usr/local/

Now when I strat xemacs I gets following message
/opt/xemacs/bin/xemacs

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?

And xemacs fires up but I don't have button or I can't load any file it says xpm-button fail and so on..

Anyone has any idea how to setup path for this.
I have try searching on xemacs site but no luck. Number of people has same problem on there mailing archive but no solution.

Thanks
Sachin

[Sachin Patel]

bringing back to top.
Anyone.

[Mark Grant]

Sachin,

I winder if the symbolic link issue is related at all though I can't see why it might be.

Did you try setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH instead of symbolic links?

[Sachin Patel]

Mark
that was not the problem. but when I install xemacs from .depot it went in to /opt
Then I download the source code and compile it with --prefix=/usr/local and had to creat few links in /opt
libpng -> /usr/local
xpm -> /usr/local/
zlib -> /usr/local

Now it is working.

Sachin