[comp.emacs] TERM environment variable problem in 18.55

chrise@bcsaic.UUCP (Chris Esposito) (09/14/89)

Greeting GNUrus-

    I recently ftp'ed emacs 18.55 from Ohio State and encountered a puzzling
problem during the build on a Sun 3/260 running OS 3.5.  The program `temacs'
builds without any errors but then complains that the `TERM' environment
variable is not set.  However, a `printenv' executed immediately after the
make terminates appears to indicate that the variable *is* set.  Does anybody
know what's going on here?  The text of the error message and partial output
from printenv is shown below.

Thanks,

Chris Esposito


./temacs -batch -l inc-vers
Please set the environment variable TERM; see tset(1).
*** Error code 1

Stop.
*** Error code 1

Stop.
*** Error code 1

Stop.
pierce_dist-18.55 [263] printenv
HOME=/usr/pierce0/chrise
SHELL=/usr/pierce0/chrise/bin/tcsh
TERM=sun
    [ other environment variables not shown ]



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