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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!europa.clark.net!arclight.uoregon.edu!news.bc.net!info.ucla.edu!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!das-news2.harvard.edu!fas-news.harvard.edu!giffin.student.harvard.edu!user From: daniel@eecs.harvard.edu (Daniel B Giffin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Emacs Not Starting Date: Sun, 09 Mar 1997 21:37:45 -0500 Organization: Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts Lines: 19 Message-ID: <daniel-0903972137450001@giffin.student.harvard.edu> References: <01bc2c62$5c6d10c0$e2749888@professor.hip.berkeley.edu> <5fveun$62g$1@bofh.noc.best.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: giffin.student.harvard.edu Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:36815 In article <5fveun$62g$1@bofh.noc.best.net>, rone@bofh.noc.best.net (Ron Echeverri) wrote: > In article <01bc2c62$5c6d10c0$e2749888@professor.hip.berkeley.edu>, > Toan Pham <phamtv@cory.eecs.berkeley.edu> wrote: > >I currently have freeBSD but my emacs is not working. I don't have > >Xwindows. I uncompressed compat20.tgz to put everything in the /usr/lib > >but it keeps on giving me this error that it can't find libXmu.so.6.0. It > >seems be trying to get the X lib. Is there anyway to make it not do this. > >I just want plain emacs. > > You'll probably have to compile emacs with "--with-x=no" so it doesn't > look for any X libraries. > Change "probably" to "certainly". I had the same problem and the solution mentioned here is the one you want. daniel