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Date:      Wed, 01 Oct 1997 21:14:12 -0500
From:      User Al Johnson <Al.Johnson@AJC.State.Net>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: CVSUP without X installed
Message-ID:  <34330374.F14C7094@AJC.State.Net>
References:  <3432E23D.A812153E@AJC.State.Net> <19971002113434.06411@lemis.com>

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Greg Lehey wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Oct 01, 1997 at 06:52:29PM -0500, User Al Johnson wrote:
> > Does anyone know if it's possible to use CVSUP 1.5 without X.
> > Every time I fire it up it complains about libXaw.lo.6.1 or
> > something close to that.
> 
> I don't think you'll get it to run without the X libraries being
> present, since that's the way it's linked.  On the other hand, you can
> definitely *run* it without connecting to an X server.  I do that all
> the time.  If it bugs you, you might like to hack the code so that you
> can build it without X support.

I got it to work by installing just the necessary libs.

> 
> > I don't want to have to install X just to use CVSUP.
> 
> No, that's not a good reason to install X.  There are many others.
> Why don't you want to use it?

It's a news server, and when puch comes to shove it's the keeper
of the FreeBSD ports collection.  Not much need for X on that 
system.
> 
> Greg

 -- Al



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