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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
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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