Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Startup error in new xemacs distribution within cygwin distribution References: <16413 DOT 32144 DOT 914888 DOT 108042 AT endive DOT belkin> From: "Dr. Volker Zell" In-Reply-To: <16413.32144.914888.108042@endive.belkin> (L. Larrabee Strow's message of "Sun, 1 Feb 2004 17:28:32 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) XEmacs/21.4 (Reasonable Discussion, cygwin32) Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 15:16:29 +0100 Message-ID: <87znc14ldu.fsf@vzell-de.de.oracle.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-White-List-Member: TRUE >>>>> "L" == L Larrabee Strow writes: L> I just installed all the new xemacs packages within the cygwin L> distribution. I also updated my cygwin to DLL 1.5.7-1 release. L> When I try to start xemacs I get the following >> xemacs L> WARNING: L> Couldn't find an obvious default for the root of the XEmacs hierarchy. Known problem. Obviously XEmacs finds all its files. L> Then xemacs hangs for a minute or so and then the bash prompt returns. L> I then realized that xemacs wanted an xserver, when I started one up, L> it started, with the same warning. The documentation on this mailing L> list indicated that xemacs wouldn't need or use X if the server wasn't L> running. Seems as though packages can be found if running under X. If you want the W32 version just unset your DISPLAY variable before starting. Should be mentioned in the package README so. L> Larrabee Ciao Volker -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/