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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