Date: Sat, 9 May 1998 12:29:03 -0700 (PDT) From: patl@phoenix.volant.org To: Dan Roberts <droberts@gwis.com> Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: missing library files / emacs package Message-ID: <ML-3.3.894742143.4748.patl@asimov> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.980509103749.5094b-100000@gwis.com>
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> On 9 May 1998, Dag-Erling Coidan [iso-8859-1] Smørgrav wrote: > > > dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav ) writes: > > > Dan Roberts <droberts@gwis.com> 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
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