Re: tlug: help! intallation of Wnn4

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Sat, 16 May 1998, Takeshi Masuda wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Please, anyone who has successfully installed the RPM package of Wnn4
> help me. 
> 
> 
> I got redhat 5.0 two weeks ago and installed it into my
> computer(Pentium). I wanted to e-mail to my friends in Japan with Kanji,
> so I decided to use Wnn4 + xemacs + mew. 
> 
> I downloaded a glibc version of Wnn4 RPM package from JRPM site, and
> made an user "wnn", and then installed it. Next, I got the source of
> xemacs and tried to compile it with mule and Wnn support, but I
> couldn't. Jeff Miller, who read my article at comp.emacs.xemacs, told me
> that I couldn't compile xemacs because I didn't install Wnn4 correctly. 
> 
> We exchanged some e-mails doing some checkings, and at last I was
> convinced that he's right. The RPM package of Wnn4 installed everything
> under /usr/local directory, not /usr directory, but I'm not sure what I
> should do about it. I guessed I have to at least make a path to
> /usr/local/lib, so I inserted a line
> 
> /usr/local/lib
> 
> in /etc/ld.so.conf, and typed "ldconfig", but I still can't compile
> xemacs. 

Did the wnn4 rpm put anything into /usr/local/include?  You might need to
make those available to the compiler for xemacs as well.  I've also heard
that xemacs doesn't build right on glibc systems at all.

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