Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 19:22:31 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Problems installing Xaw3d? Message-ID: <20051101085231.GG18710@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20051101084439.GF18710@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20051101073027.GD18710@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20051101082610.GA80303@xor.obsecurity.org> <20051101084439.GF18710@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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--0z5c7mBtSy1wdr4F Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday, 1 November 2005 at 19:14:39 +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Tuesday, 1 November 2005 at 3:26:11 -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 06:00:27PM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >>> I've just tried several times to install emacs on a freshly installed >>> 7.0 box (Dell Inspiron 6000 FWIW). The Emacs installation fails >>> consistently with the following messages: >>> >>> ... >> >> Looks like you're using XFree86 (not the default), but don't have >> X_WINDOW_SYSTEM set appropriately (see /usr/ports/UPDATING). > > No. Everything's the default. To clarify: this is a fresh install. Of course, I missed the obvious question: why should this make any difference? I glanced through /usr/ports/UPDATING, but nothing reached out and grabbed me. I don't suppose you really expect everybody to read an entire 45+ pages of docco to understand why their view of the world varies from that of the ports collection. Linux distributions install all this stuff by default. If we don't, why should we expect anybody to care about trying? Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --0z5c7mBtSy1wdr4F Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDZyzPIubykFB6QiMRAsh2AJ9kaQPcgJyyXe/t4Wd6prvFLpI8cACdGSWl XbDM7mp4lu8pmdE5shVWgfc= =W0yJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --0z5c7mBtSy1wdr4F--
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