Eric Hanchrow answered my question:
If not, then your system lacks the necessary headers and libraries to
build X support into Emacs, which would explain what you're seeing.
That was the case. I had recently reinstalled the OS on that
computer and hadn't yet noticed that I had missed those
In GNU Emacs 22.0.93.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu)
of 2007-02-08
configured using `configure '--prefix=/home/per/emacs/pretest''
When starting emacs it started in the terminal and not with X as I
expected. (Starting emacs 21.3 works fine.) I see the entry
** If the environment variable DISPLAY
Per == Per Starbäck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Per In GNU Emacs 22.0.93.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) of 2007-02-08
Per configured using `configure
Per '--prefix=/home/per/emacs/pretest''
If you still have the config.log file, take a look and see if it
contains
#define
