From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 6 3:20:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from blount.mail.mindspring.net (blount.mail.mindspring.net [207.69.200.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 397BB37B406; Mon, 6 Aug 2001 03:20:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from judmarc@mindspring.com) Received: from sparky (dialup-63.214.212.142.Dial1.Philadelphia1.Level3.net [63.214.212.142]) by blount.mail.mindspring.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with SMTP id GAA28221; Mon, 6 Aug 2001 06:20:32 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200108061020.GAA28221@blount.mail.mindspring.net> Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2001 06:21:34 -0400 To: swear@aa.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, wash@wananchi.com From: Jud Subject: Xemacs and Gnus (was Re: Wrapper Won't Install on XFree86-4.1) Reply-To: judmarc@mindspring.com X-Mailer: Opera 5.12 build 932 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 8/5/2001 9:33:04 PM, swear@aa.net (Gary W. Swearingen) wrote: >Jud writes: > >> Now when I attempt to install the wrapper port, I get a message saying >> it's "forbidden" - it can only be installed with XFree86-4. >> >> Suggestions? > >I suggest that you ignore it and hope it goes away. How the ports cope >with the various simultaneous versions of things like XFree86 and >XEmacs is beyond me. Apparently, not always well. > >Anyway, that package is just one file that probably hasn't changed since >early XFree86 3.x and is not worth worrying about unless you want to >help debug the port. First, thanks to Odhiambo Washington and Jean-Marc Zucconi - setting XFREE86_VERSION=4 in /etc/make.conf worked. Wonder what caused the problem in the first place? (And by the way, Jean-Marc, I figured out that my inability to use ppp except as root - a problem with which you kindly helped me a while ago - was caused by uncommenting a line in make.conf about building with "normal" permissions.) Gary, it happens that I was occupied last evening with a problem with which you may be familiar - getting Gnus to work with Xemacs on FreeBSD. I built the Xemacs 21.1.14 port, then built the gnus-emacs port using the directions for installing Gnus at the following page: http://mwiehl.socha.net/Gnus/tutorial/html/gnus-tutorial_2.html#SEC4 But no joy - Xemacs gives me the message that the "symbol 'gnus' is void," or something like that when I click the News button or type "M-x gnus." I've thought of either using a "plain" Gnus rather than the gnus- emacs port, or adding "setq" before the "(add-to-list 'load-path..." line given at the URL above. From your user-agent, I deduce you've already got it working - so what would you suggest? Thanks, Jud To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message