From owner-freebsd-ports  Tue Jun  3 16:51:13 1997
Return-Path: <owner-ports>
Received: (from root@localhost)
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA02165
          for ports-outgoing; Tue, 3 Jun 1997 16:51:13 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from alpha.xerox.com (alpha.Xerox.COM [13.1.64.93])
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id QAA02140
          for <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>; Tue, 3 Jun 1997 16:51:08 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from crevenia.parc.xerox.com ([13.2.116.11]) by alpha.xerox.com with SMTP id <18277(5)>; Tue, 3 Jun 1997 16:50:32 PDT
Received: from localhost by crevenia.parc.xerox.com with SMTP id <177489>; Tue, 3 Jun 1997 16:50:13 -0700
To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami)
cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: ispell port requires EMACS?! 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 02 Jun 97 23:54:20 PDT."
             <199706030654.XAA17932@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> 
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 16:50:08 PDT
From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
Message-Id: <97Jun3.165013pdt.177489@crevenia.parc.xerox.com>
Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org
X-Loop: FreeBSD.org
Precedence: bulk

asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) wrote:
>I believe it needs it to byte-compile an .elc file.  Try "make
>package" and see if everything really worked ok.

Sounds like this is one of the places where the package-building
dependencies are different than the building-to-use-on-this-system
dependenices.  If you're making the package, then you want to
byte-compile the .elc file for Emacs users that want to use the
package, but if you don't use Emacs then you have no use for a
byte-compiled .elc file anyway.

  Bill