Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 19:04:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net> To: "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com> Cc: Dan Swartzendruber <dswartz@druber.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.0 installation problems Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9810241902150.375-100000@picnic.mat.net> In-Reply-To: <19981024153250.B4735@nuxi.com>
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On Sat, 24 Oct 1998, David O'Brien wrote: > > Speaking of irritating installation issues: why do I have to install X > > to use emacs? > > Because the maintainier of emacs believes that X support is desired in > the general case. You aren't in the general case. You could appeal to > the maintainer to change his mind. OR build the port yourself by: > > cd /usr/ports/editors/emacs > make install distclean It's not terribly difficult to make it build without X11. A primary requirement, however, is to have absolutely NO X11 stuff on your machine, because emacs will hunt it down and use X11 if it finds any vestiges around. If you _have_ any pieces of X11 around, then making emacs ignore it is a PITA. ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic (FreeBSD-current) (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (NetBSD). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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