From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 21 10:59:31 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA13948 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 21 May 1996 10:59:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from crux2.cit.cornell.edu (root@CRUX2.CIT.CORNELL.EDU [128.253.232.64]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA13943 for ; Tue, 21 May 1996 10:59:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from crux4.cit.cornell.edu by crux2.cit.cornell.edu (5.65/2.0) with SMTP id AA25445; Tue, 21 May 1996 13:57:47 -0400 Message-Id: <9605211757.AA25445@crux2.cit.cornell.edu> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Emacs pkg_add problem -- please help. Date: Tue, 21 May 96 13:57:46 -0400 From: Rohan Oberoi X-Mts: smtp Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Apologies for not having included the relevant part of the error message. It was "Can't find shared library "libXaw.so.6.0". >Hmmm. At the risk of being flamed by knowledgable others, I'll >note that in order to avoid the problems dscribed by Rohan, I've >included in my .cshrc a line: >setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH /usr/X11R6/lib >This fixed a problem when running xemacs. >Jim Isom jisom@msli.com Thanks, Jim, I'll try that. It seems a little strange that one should have to install the X server in order to run emacs, rather than being able to run emacs from the console. Is this really the way the package is designed ? Rohan.