Re: Emacs problems

["James R. Van Zandt" <jrv@vanzandt.mv.com>]

Bryan Smart  writes:

"I've just performed a fresh install of Linux Slakware 3.2 with what I
believe is Emacs 19.31.

When I am at a command prompt and type "emacs" I receive a message about
"libxaw.so.6" can not be found or similar."

I believe it is asking for libXaw.so.6 (note the upper case X), which
should be in the Slackware package x312lib.   This is part of X11.  I
believe Slackware offers a package emac_nox which does not support X
windows, and should not require the X library.  You may want to
install that instead.

You can find out what shared libraries are needed by an executable
with the "ldd" command.  Here is the report for my copy of emacs:

$ ldd `which emacs`
        libXaw.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXaw.so.6
        libXmu.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6
        libXt.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6
        libSM.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6
        libICE.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6
        libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6
        libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6
        libncurses.so.3.0 => /lib/libncurses.so.3.0
        libm.so.5 => /lib/libm.so.5
        libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5

The first line says that the program requires a library named
libXaw.so.6, which was found in /usr/X11R6/lib/.  I'm running Debian,
so the library names and/or locations may differ.

                                - Jim Van Zandt

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