emacs 25.1 on AIX: no gui

[Burkhard Schultheis]

I'm using emacs for about 20 years and now I have a problem I never had:
The new installed emacs 25.1 from bull does not start his gui (AIX 7.2).
Of course, I have installed all needed packages including
emacs-X11-25.1-1.aix6.1.ppc.rpm and other X11 programs are working
normally. But if I start emacs, it starts in the terminal window. I've
already tried emacs -d <DISPLAY>, but without success.

What can I do?

Regards
Burkhard

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Post by Burkhard Schultheis
The new installed emacs 25.1 from bull does not start his gui (AIX 7.2).
Of course, I have installed all needed packages including
emacs-X11-25.1-1.aix6.1.ppc.rpm and other X11 programs are working

Some library might be missing. To diagnose the problem try to see
the options used at compilation time and look at what it says for the
x-toolkit

C-h v system-configuration-options
M-x display-about-screen

The best is that you compile emacs yourself

wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/emacs-25.3.tar.gz
tar xzvf emacs-25.3.tar.gz
cd emacs-25.3
./configure --with-x-toolkit=KIT --prefix=/usr/local ; make ; make install

KIT one of: yes or gtk, gtk2, gtk3, lucid or athena, motif, no

Also try --without-xft if you cannot make it display.

If that doesn't work downgrade to 24.x