Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2008 13:07:18 -0700 From: Paul Hoffman <phoffman@proper.com> To: "Scot Hetzel" <swhetzel@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wanted: binary build of Emacs without X11 Message-ID: <p0624084dc4e9e4bb3693@[10.20.30.152]> In-Reply-To: <790a9fff0809070936o4eae9f31hec887930b7fa9796@mail.gmail.com> References: <p06240839c4e991b1c032@10.20.30.152> <790a9fff0809070936o4eae9f31hec887930b7fa9796@mail.gmail.com>
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At 11:36 AM -0500 9/7/08, Scot Hetzel wrote: >On 9/7/08, Paul Hoffman <phoffman@proper.com> wrote: >> Greetings again. I'm not sure if this request should be done to this mailing >> list or as a PR, but here goes. >> >> I run FreeBSD as a server, not as a desktop. Some of my users want Emacs. >> If I pull down the prebuilt binary, it requires a zillon X11-related >> packages that are of no use on my system. If I go to >> /usr/ports/editors/emacs and build with WITHOUT_X11, I still need to install >> a bunch of building tools that are basically unneeded by anything other than >> building Emacs. >> >> It would be nice if the prebuilt binaries had an emacs-nox11. >> >Have a look at print/ghostscript-gnu-nox11/Makefile on how to create >the emacs-nox11 port. > >Then use send-pr to to get the port commited. Many thanks. Done.
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