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Date:      Sat, 9 May 1998 10:45:58 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Dan Roberts <droberts@gwis.com>
To:        Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <dag-erli@ifi.uio.no>
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: missing library files / emacs package
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.95.980509103749.5094b-100000@gwis.com>
In-Reply-To: <xzpiunfa4tr.fsf@gjallarhorn.ifi.uio.no>

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On 9 May 1998, Dag-Erling Coidan [iso-8859-1] Smørgrav wrote:

> dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav ) writes:
> > Dan Roberts <droberts@gwis.com> writes:
> > > I have a freshly installed 2.2-SNAP980424 and attempted to install the
> > > precompiled emacs-19.34 and 20.13 packages, but neither of them would work
> > > because of missing library files.  They appear to be related to X somehow
> > > even though I'm not running xemacs.
> > Emacs needs X libraries, even if you don't want to run it under X. The
> > solution is to download the source and build it yourself with the
> > -DNOX option.
> 
> Doh. I mean (of course) '--with-x=no'. Long time since I last did this :)

Thanks for your suggestion.  Though this sort of defeats the purpose of
having a precompiled binary package if you end up having to compile it
yourself anyway.  :)  

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