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In-reply-to: <19970603021201.57042@crh.cl.msu.edu> (message from Charles Henrich on Tue, 3 Jun 1997 02:12:01 -0400)
Subject: Re: ispell port requires EMACS?!
From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami)
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 * I just tried to install the ispell port and the first thing it rudely tried to
 * do is go get that behemoth Emacs and install it on my system.  I commented out
 * that dependency and everything worked just peachy keen, so might I ask why it
 * is there?

I believe it needs it to byte-compile an .elc file.  Try "make
package" and see if everything really worked ok.

Satoshi