From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 26 01:11:59 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id BAA01560 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 26 Nov 1996 01:11:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from frosk.zoo.uib.no (frosk.zoo.uib.no [129.177.64.31]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id BAA01541 for ; Tue, 26 Nov 1996 01:11:54 -0800 (PST) Received: (from oystein@localhost) by frosk.zoo.uib.no (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA27011; Tue, 26 Nov 1996 10:12:31 +0100 (MET) Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 10:12:31 +0100 (MET) From: Oystein Soreide To: Doug White cc: JKtheOWL@aol.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: packages and associated libraries In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk If you are familiar with compiling GNU software, there is not difficult=20 to compile the newest version of emacs. I installed emacs 19.34.2 on my=20 machine with x-support when the one in the distribution did not function.= =20 ( I have release 2.1.5 of FreeBSD). =D8ystein On Mon, 25 Nov 1996, Doug White wrote: > On Sat, 23 Nov 1996 JKtheOWL@aol.com wrote: >=20 > > In loading emacs, it installs with no error messages but will not run, > > failing to locate libXmu.so.6.0. Where is this? Where is emacs (emacs-= 19.31) > > supposed to be? What libraries need to be where? This typifies the prob= lems I > > had in loading the software originally. >=20 > It's looking for an X component. You need to run configure (I think) wit= h > --without-x so that it will not try to build for X. See the README for > information. >=20 > > It would help generally if there was an outline of what should be where= , and > > what adjunct files should be downloaded with something like emacs-19.31= . >=20 > That 14 mb monster is all you need. :) >=20 > Doug White | University of Oregon =20 > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major >=20 ------------------------------------------------------ =D8ystein S=F8reide Institute of Zoology, University of Bergen Allegt 36, 5007 Bergen Norway Phone # +47 55 58 20 13 (study office) e-mail: Oystein.Soreide@frosk.zoo.uib.no or: Oystein.Soreide@zoo.uib.no or: s106@lstud.ii.uib.no