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Re: Problem with installing emacs (GNU). lib says 'EMX not found'

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From: Dennis Allen Schmitz
Date: Sat, 08 Aug 1992 23:17
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In article <1992Aug8.165308.4884@gw.wmich.edu> x91clifton1@gw.wmich.edu writes:

   Xref: rice comp.os.os2.programmer:5637 comp.os.os2.misc:30689 comp.os.os2.apps:5672

   > Looks like the instructions in the emacs.doc are not complete. The instru
   > say 
   > 
   > cd \emacs\src
   > lib
   > dump-....
   > 
   > 
   > I did just that. I do have the emx directory in the root. I set all the
   > environment variables as specified in the document (actually copied the
   > set-vars.cmd into config.sys and changed some of them to suit my setup).
   > 
   > 'lib' command does not run. The message (from temacs I guess) I got is
   > 
   > EMX not found
   > 
   > 
   > Do I have to get emx from ftp-os2? 
   > What is there i nthe emx directory distributed with emacs? (Well, I
   > peaked into it and saw gnu, bin, doc etc)


   Put emx.dll in a directory that is pointed to by your LIBPATH environment 
   variable. That should fix your problem.

No, it won't. You still need EMX. A peek at the dump-emacs.cmd file
will show you that you need EMXBIND.EXE and EMXL.EXE, which do NOT
come with emacs.

Later,
den
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Subject: Re: Problem with installing emacs (GNU). lib says 'EMX not found'
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