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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:6267 comp.os.386bsd.bugs:1662 gnu.emacs.help:13257 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.bugs,gnu.emacs.help Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!usenet.ucs.indiana.edu!bigbang.astro.indiana.edu!pitts From: pitts@bigbang.astro.indiana.edu (Jim Pitts) Subject: Re: NetBSD 0.9: Need help building emacs Message-ID: <CFK7GH.For@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> Sender: news@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: bigbang.astro.indiana.edu Organization: Indiana University Astrophysics, Bloomington, IN References: <MIKE.LONG.93Oct26230310@cthulhu.analog.com> <haley.751703710@husc8> Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1993 14:12:16 GMT Lines: 22 In article <haley.751703710@husc8> haley@husc8.harvard.edu (Elizabeth Haley) writes: >I got the emacs-19.17-src.tar.gz file from alpha.gnu.ai.mit.edu. I >don't remember that it even complained much. Just run configure, and >make. > >One tip though: make sure you have the texinfo distribution installed >first. At least makeinfo. Then you won't have to go back and install >the info files later. > wuarchive.wustl.edu has a mirror in mirrors/gnu that has the latest-greatest gnu stuff. Emacs-19.19 is there. I copied it down, ran the config, and it went the first time. Great stuff! emacs ... stuff of the gods. Of course I am using FreeBSD ... ;) Jim