From owner-freebsd-current Sat Oct 24 16:05:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA14112 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 24 Oct 1998 16:05:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA14100 for ; Sat, 24 Oct 1998 16:05:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chuckr@mat.net) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.1/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA07849; Sat, 24 Oct 1998 19:04:01 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 19:04:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey To: "David O'Brien" cc: Dan Swartzendruber , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.0 installation problems In-Reply-To: <19981024153250.B4735@nuxi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 24 Oct 1998, David O'Brien wrote: > > Speaking of irritating installation issues: why do I have to install X > > to use emacs? > > Because the maintainier of emacs believes that X support is desired in > the general case. You aren't in the general case. You could appeal to > the maintainer to change his mind. OR build the port yourself by: > > cd /usr/ports/editors/emacs > make install distclean It's not terribly difficult to make it build without X11. A primary requirement, however, is to have absolutely NO X11 stuff on your machine, because emacs will hunt it down and use X11 if it finds any vestiges around. If you _have_ any pieces of X11 around, then making emacs ignore it is a PITA. ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic (FreeBSD-current) (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (NetBSD). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message