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From: Richard Lyon <rlyon@rlyon.mynet.au>
To: Keith Leonard <keithl@gil.net>
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Subject: Re: Ports??
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On Sun, 4 Feb 1996, Keith Leonard wrote:

> The ports I have been trying to get are:
> emacs - why do I need X to run this?

The standard gnu release (Version 19.29) seems to compile under freebsd ok.

ie

./configure i386-unknown-freebsd --with-x=no
make
make install

If you want the x windows version it may be a different matter.

Regards ...