From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 8 08:09:23 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id IAA01758 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 8 Aug 1995 08:09:23 -0700 Received: from jolt.eng.umd.edu (jolt.eng.umd.edu [129.2.102.5]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id IAA01734 for ; Tue, 8 Aug 1995 08:09:15 -0700 Received: from latte.eng.umd.edu (latte.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.15]) by jolt.eng.umd.edu (8.6.10/8.6.4) with ESMTP id LAA27986; Tue, 8 Aug 1995 11:09:11 -0400 Received: (chuckr@localhost) by latte.eng.umd.edu (8.6.10/8.6.4) id LAA03438; Tue, 8 Aug 1995 11:09:10 -0400 Date: Tue, 8 Aug 1995 11:09:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey To: Olof Samuelsson TM/SA 83063 6546 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xemacs 19.12 on 2.05-RELEASE In-Reply-To: <9508080927.AA07685@sos15> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 8 Aug 1995, Olof Samuelsson TM/SA 83063 6546 wrote: > > I'd like to run Xemacs 19.12 on 2.05, but there is no package for it > (only 19.11). There is a current-package for 19.12, but will that > run? > Is the BSDI precompiled version on ftp.cs.uiuc.edu likely to work? Or > is the 1.1.5 version more likely? Does all 1.1.5 binaries work with > the compat1x distribution? > > Is grabbing the source and compiling it myself really the simplest > option? > > /Olof > -- > You have to grab the sources (check the Makefile), but then it compiles without a whimper, and seems to run fine. I almost never use emacs, because I've been too lazy to learn all the keystrokes, but this on is so well instrumented with menus, a lot of the pain is taken away. Very nice, and access to many of the other emacs utilities is menuized too. ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 (Freebsd 2.0R) and n3lxx (301) 220-2114 | (FreeBSD 2.0.5-snap) and am I happy! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------