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Date:      Sat, 9 May 1998 12:29:03 -0700 (PDT)
From:      patl@phoenix.volant.org
To:        Dan Roberts <droberts@gwis.com>
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: missing library files / emacs package
Message-ID:  <ML-3.3.894742143.4748.patl@asimov>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.980509103749.5094b-100000@gwis.com>

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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.  :)  

The alternative solution is to install X11.  You don't have to actually
run the pre-packaged emacs under X11; it just needs to be able to find
the libraries.



-Pat

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