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From: nick@Ireland.EU.net (Nick Hilliard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Want X applications, but not an X server
Date: 30 Aug 1996 12:46:32 +0100
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Justin Murdock (justin@vide.coventry.ac.uk) said:
: This all started when I tried to get the NetPBM stuff, but
: couldn't compile them due to some of the X stuff being missing
: (OK, it's only xmkmf, but it leads me on to...)

: I don't want to run an X server, so I don't want any of the
: server stuff, but I want to compile and run X applications.

You'll need the X runtime and link libraries, header files, programs and lib
directory.  In fact, pretty much everything except for the fonts, the X
source code and the server program itself.

Nick