From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 20 10:19:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from operamail.com (operamail.infinite.com [199.29.68.126]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D425637B481 for ; Sun, 20 Jan 2002 10:19:17 -0800 (PST) X-WM-Posted-At: operamail.com; Sun, 20 Jan 02 13:19:12 -0500 X-WebMail-UserID: leegold Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 13:19:12 -0500 From: leegold To: Ray Kohler Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-EXP32-SerialNo: 00000000 Subject: RE: emacs will not start Message-ID: <3C5AA2C6@operamail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: InterChange (Hydra) SMTP v3.62 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I didn't install, nor do I want at this X-windows on my pc. why is emacs asking for an x library? I'm new to emacs I assumed it was text based like vi is(?) >===== Original Message From Ray Kohler ===== >On Saturday 19 January 2002 11:18 pm, leegold wrote: >> I installed emacs from the packages. >> I then typed # emacs and got the following error message: >> >> /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: shared object "libXaw.so.6" not found >> >> and emacs does not open. Can anyone help me fix this? >> I may not have the errmessage exactly but the above is the >> gist of it. FreeBSD 4.4 > >Well, libXaw is part of XFree86, but now it's at 7, not 6. So >either: >1) your X is newer than the package (in which case you ought to >uninstall the emacs package and build it from the port instead) or >2) your X installation is goofed up (in which case you ought to >reinstall X from ports). > >What does "ls -l /usr/X11R6/lib/libXaw*" show? If you get some >files (not counting the ones with "3d" in their names), then you >should do option 1 above, if not, do option 2. > >-- >Ray Kohler >"It's not just a computer -- it's your hiney." > -- Cal Keegan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message