Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2008 11:36:45 -0500 From: "Scot Hetzel" <swhetzel@gmail.com> To: "Paul Hoffman" <phoffman@proper.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wanted: binary build of Emacs without X11 Message-ID: <790a9fff0809070936o4eae9f31hec887930b7fa9796@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <p06240839c4e991b1c032@10.20.30.152> References: <p06240839c4e991b1c032@10.20.30.152>
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On 9/7/08, Paul Hoffman <phoffman@proper.com> wrote: > Greetings again. I'm not sure if this request should be done to this mailing > list or as a PR, but here goes. > > I run FreeBSD as a server, not as a desktop. Some of my users want Emacs. > If I pull down the prebuilt binary, it requires a zillon X11-related > packages that are of no use on my system. If I go to > /usr/ports/editors/emacs and build with WITHOUT_X11, I still need to install > a bunch of building tools that are basically unneeded by anything other than > building Emacs. > > It would be nice if the prebuilt binaries had an emacs-nox11. > Have a look at print/ghostscript-gnu-nox11/Makefile on how to create the emacs-nox11 port. Then use send-pr to to get the port commited. Scot
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