Hi, When the configure script tests for the existance of gnudbm it tries to compile a small test program with an -lgpm argument. When sys-libs/gpm isn't install this will fail and xemacs won't install. One quick way to fix it is to make sys-libs/gpm a dependency of xemacs. Navid
app-editors/xemacs-gamma/xemacs-21.4.7.ebuild will be released shortly. it will fix this and other problems. matt
i just added xemacs-gamma/xemacs-gamma-21.4.7.ebuild to portage. The aim of this new package is to provide an xemacs-gamma release in portage. See http://www.xemacs.org/Releases/index.html#Gamma for the rationale. I plan to roll-back app-editors/xemacs to use the STABLE xemacs release 21.1.14 (ie. emerge xemacs gives the user the stable xemacs not a gamma release). This xemacs-gamma-21.4.7.ebuild is quite different to the older xemacs-21.4.x ebuild. I've marked it in packages.mask (unmask it and emerge xemacs-gamma to test it). New stuff: * optional mule support (bug 2054) * separate motif, lucid and gtk support (see USE_PREF in the ebuild to switch between them -- lucid is the default since it's the most stable of the three) * optional gpm dependencies (this bug) * gnudbm dependencies (this bug) *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 2054 ***