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From: Sebastien Pochic <spochic@INnet.be>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Emacs Not Starting
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 17:53:19 +0100
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Daniel B Giffin 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

hi,

 I have the same problem with emacs and xemacs but I have X-windows
installed. They're looking for some libs (libgcc...). What can I do to
use them with X?

thanks,

-- sebastien

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