Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2001 06:21:34 -0400 From: Jud <judmarc@mindspring.com> To: swear@aa.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, wash@wananchi.com Subject: Xemacs and Gnus (was Re: Wrapper Won't Install on XFree86-4.1) Message-ID: <200108061020.GAA28221@blount.mail.mindspring.net>
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8/5/2001 9:33:04 PM, swear@aa.net (Gary W. Swearingen) wrote: >Jud <judmarc@mindspring.com> writes: > >> Now when I attempt to install the wrapper port, I get a message saying >> it's "forbidden" - it can only be installed with XFree86-4. >> >> Suggestions? > >I suggest that you ignore it and hope it goes away. How the ports cope >with the various simultaneous versions of things like XFree86 and >XEmacs is beyond me. Apparently, not always well. > >Anyway, that package is just one file that probably hasn't changed since >early XFree86 3.x and is not worth worrying about unless you want to >help debug the port. First, thanks to Odhiambo Washington and Jean-Marc Zucconi - setting XFREE86_VERSION=4 in /etc/make.conf worked. Wonder what caused the problem in the first place? (And by the way, Jean-Marc, I figured out that my inability to use ppp except as root - a problem with which you kindly helped me a while ago - was caused by uncommenting a line in make.conf about building with "normal" permissions.) Gary, it happens that I was occupied last evening with a problem with which you may be familiar - getting Gnus to work with Xemacs on FreeBSD. I built the Xemacs 21.1.14 port, then built the gnus-emacs port using the directions for installing Gnus at the following page: http://mwiehl.socha.net/Gnus/tutorial/html/gnus-tutorial_2.html#SEC4 But no joy - Xemacs gives me the message that the "symbol 'gnus' is void," or something like that when I click the News button or type "M-x gnus." I've thought of either using a "plain" Gnus rather than the gnus- emacs port, or adding "setq" before the "(add-to-list 'load-path..." line given at the URL above. From your user-agent, I deduce you've already got it working - so what would you suggest? Thanks, Jud To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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