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From: ritz@ritz.mordor.com (Chris Mauritz)
Subject: Re: emacs 19.28 needs libX11* -- why?
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Organization: Mordor International
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 1995 20:25:13 GMT
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Darrel Herbst (dherbst@gradient.cis.upenn.edu) wrote:
: Hello, I'm trying to install the emacs19.28 package from the 2.0.5R
: dist.  I was able to install it, but now it complains:
: 
: %emacs
: ld.so emacs: libX11.so.6.0 undefined error:0
: 
: I'm guessing that it is complaining because I do not have X installed
: (ergo, no libX11*'s are installed).  I have no space for X on my drive
: -- but I can't seem to locate exactly what file to take from an
: archive to just get the libraries that emacs needs.
: 
: Does anyone know where they are available?

Why don't you just get a fresh copy from prep.ai.mit.edu 
(the current version is actually 19.29) and build it from
scratch?  It worked like a charm on my box.  The autoconfigure
script is smart enough to leave out the x libs if it doesn't
find X installed on your system.

Regards,

Chris
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