From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 14 05:13:51 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1DEE16A4CE for ; Sat, 14 Aug 2004 05:13:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: from out004.verizon.net (out004pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.142]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A15043D54 for ; Sat, 14 Aug 2004 05:13:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from [192.168.1.3] ([68.161.136.200]) by out004.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.06 201-253-122-130-106-20030910) with ESMTP id <20040814051350.TJCP28868.out004.verizon.net@[192.168.1.3]>; Sat, 14 Aug 2004 00:13:50 -0500 Message-ID: <411D9F86.7040604@mac.com> Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 01:13:42 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." References: <20040814033546.13866.qmail@web53407.mail.yahoo.com> <411D99D2.6020508@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <411D99D2.6020508@daleco.biz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out004.verizon.net from [68.161.136.200] at Sat, 14 Aug 2004 00:13:50 -0500 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc: Your Name Subject: Re: Updating Emacs without installing X? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 05:13:52 -0000 Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: > Your Name wrote: >> This is just a server box, and i dont want to have _any_ X running on it. >> Is there a way i can get Emacs current? i didn't originally set this >> machine up, but Emacs is installed from Ports and theres no X on the >> machine, so i dont know how it was originally done. > > Emacs requires XFree libraries, and I think imake, > in order to build and run. Pshaw! :-) Emacs can be built for text-mode using normal make just fine, and the Emacs port knows how: cd /usr/ports/editors/emacs && env WITHOUT_X11=1 make install -- -Chuck