From owner-freebsd-bugs Sat May 9 12:30:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA17037 for freebsd-bugs-outgoing; Sat, 9 May 1998 12:30:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from phoenix.volant.org (phoenix.volant.org [205.179.79.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA17026 for ; Sat, 9 May 1998 12:30:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from patl@phoenix.volant.org) From: patl@phoenix.volant.org Received: from asimov.phoenix.volant.org [205.179.79.65] by phoenix.volant.org with smtp (Exim 1.62 #1) id 0yYFKg-0000TG-00; Sat, 9 May 1998 12:30:54 -0700 Received: from localhost by asimov.phoenix.volant.org (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id MAA01583; Sat, 9 May 1998 12:29:03 -0700 Date: Sat, 9 May 1998 12:29:03 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: patl@phoenix.volant.org Subject: Re: missing library files / emacs package To: Dan Roberts cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from QUOTED-PRINTABLE to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id MAA17029 Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > On 9 May 1998, Dag-Erling Coidan [iso-8859-1] Smørgrav wrote: > > > dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav ) writes: > > > Dan Roberts writes: > > > > I have a freshly installed 2.2-SNAP980424 and attempted to install > > > > the precompiled emacs-19.34 and 20.13 packages, but neither of them > > > > would work because of missing library files. They appear to be > > > > related to X somehow even though I'm not running xemacs. > > > Emacs needs X libraries, even if you don't want to run it under X. The > > > solution is to download the source and build it yourself with the > > > -DNOX option. > > > > Doh. I mean (of course) '--with-x=no'. Long time since I last did this :) > > Thanks for your suggestion. Though this sort of defeats the purpose of > having a precompiled binary package if you end up having to compile it > yourself anyway. :) The alternative solution is to install X11. You don't have to actually run the pre-packaged emacs under X11; it just needs to be able to find the libraries. -Pat To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message