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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: xemacs is out to drive me insane!
Date: 7 Oct 1996 20:54:15 GMT
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Charlie Root <dennisg@seanet.com> wrote:

> I am having the same problems with 2.1.5 and xemacs.
> also 2.1.5R Xwindow complains constantly about libraries older than
> 6.1, using 6.0 anyway.  I have been very, very happy about this OS.

That's an artifact of some ports being accidentally linked against
wrong (beta-state) libraries.  But it's a benign one, IMHO it should
work anyway.

>   xemacs complains about libXm missing.

Another artifact, Xemacs unfortunately silently links against Motif if
it has been found in the environment on the machine where it is
compiled on -- and nobody noticed before 2.1.5 went off to the CDROM.
There's a newer binary available on the FTP servers, however.  (The
Motif went onto thud.freebsd.org shortly before the package collection
for 2.1.5 has been prepared.  It went there in an effort to make other
packages available to the Motif impaired, with libXm statically
linked.)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)