From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 1 19:14:42 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA24282 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 1 Oct 1997 19:14:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from neptune.ajc.state.net (neptune.ajc.state.net [204.120.158.168]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA24277 for ; Wed, 1 Oct 1997 19:14:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from AJC.State.Net (saturn.ajc.state.net [204.120.158.166]) by neptune.ajc.state.net (8.8.6/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA22104; Wed, 1 Oct 1997 21:14:08 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <34330374.F14C7094@AJC.State.Net> Date: Wed, 01 Oct 1997 21:14:12 -0500 From: User Al Johnson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.02b7 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Lehey CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CVSUP without X installed References: <3432E23D.A812153E@AJC.State.Net> <19971002113434.06411@lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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