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From: pir@grumblesmurf.net (Peter Radcliffe)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Emacs Not Starting
Date: 10 Mar 1997 13:23:30 GMT
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Daniel B Giffin <daniel@eecs.harvard.edu> probably said:
>rone@bofh.noc.best.net (Ron Echeverri) wrote:
>> 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.

If you compile emacs from the ports collection the configure script works
out that you don't have X and does this automaticly.

I've just installed a box as a modem server - no X support, emacs works
fine when I compiled it.

Peter.

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