XEmacs configure: warning: Module support cannot be provided.

[India_bhakti]

Issue: ./configure script does not provide module support .. Cannot install XEmacs on Centos 5.0

Had to install curses to get this to work.

# ./configure
.....
configure: warning: Module support cannot be provided.
*** PANIC *** configure forgot how to build working executables!

*** This is most commonly due to an unforeseen environment, causing
*** configure to incorrectly compute the sequence of libraries to link.
*** Please examine the tail of config.log for runtime errors.
*** Pay special attention to the -l flags, and perhaps -I and -L.
*** Often adding or removing explicit options in the configure
*** invocation can work around this kind of problem. If so, please
*** report it as a bug to xemacs-beta@xemacs.org.
***
*** Other possible causes are inability to write to the file system
*** (bogus permissions or disk full) or a misconfiguration of the dynamic
*** linker. On Linux, check /etc/ld.conf and rerun ldconfig if
*** necessary. On other systems, try telling configure where to find
*** the shared libraries using the --site-runtime-libraries option.
***
*** Another way to shoot yourself in the foot is to specify
*** --with-FEATURE when FEATURE is not actually installed on your
*** system. Don't do that.
# # tail -25 config.log
int main() {
shl_load()
; return 0; }
configure:15093: checking for dld_init in -ldld
configure:15109: gcc -o conftest -g -O3 -Wall -Wno-switch -Winline -Wmissing-prototypes -Wsign-compare -fno-strict-aliasing -Wshadow conftest.c -ldld -lXaw -ltiff -lpng -ljpeg -lz -lXpm -lXmu -lXt -lXext -lX11 -lSM -lICE -ltermcap -lcurses -lm -lutil 1>&5
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ldld
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
configure: failed program was:
#line 15098 "configure"
#include "confdefs.h"
/* Override any gcc2 internal prototype to avoid an error. */
/* We use char because int might match the return type of a gcc2
builtin and then its argument prototype would still apply. */
char dld_init();

int main() {
dld_init()
; return 0; }
configure:15806: gcc -o conftest -g -O3 -Wall -Wno-switch -Winline -Wmissing-prototypes -Wsign-compare -fno-strict-aliasing -Wshadow conftest.c -lXaw -ltiff -lpng -ljpeg -lz -lXpm -lXmu -lXt -lXext -lX11 -lSM -lICE -ltermcap -lcurses -lm -lutil 1>&5
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lcurses
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
configure: failed program was:
#line 15802 "configure"
#include "confdefs.h"
int main(int c,char *v[]){return 0;}
#

[India_bhakti]

After installing curses (yum install *curses*), I use this link to install "xorg-x11-xbitmaps" (using yum instal .. again)

Finally, I was able to make; make install and get XEmacs up and running.

Thanks.