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From: "René Berber" <r.berber@computer.org>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: emacs installed but won't run
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 06:40:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <h8kog1$pi9$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090914002429.BVZ30886@expms6.cites.uiuc.edu>

Charles Blair wrote:

>    When I type "emacs", I get a new command prompt, with no other
> messages.

That's expected when a library is missing, you can make sure by running
"emacs; echo $?" and getting error 53.

More interesting is knowing which library is missing, run "cygcheck
emacs".  Install whatever is missing; the real problem is a setup hint
file missing a dependency.
-- 
René Berber


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  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-14  6:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-14  5:24 Charles Blair
2009-09-14  6:40 ` René Berber [this message]
2009-09-15  4:24 Charles Blair
2009-09-15 11:55 ` Ken Brown

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