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From: Peter Mutsaers <plm@xs4all.nl>
Subject: Re: pathetic newbie battles FreeBSD, emacs
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Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 19:14:40 GMT
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>> On 20 Jan 1997 21:11:11 GMT, j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) said:
JW> Bah, bad news: this is the Motif library, and it's payware.
JW> It got accidentally linked in (since XEmacs happily links
JW> against Motif if it has found it on the machine building it --
JW> and thud.freebsd.org has Motif, so packages requiring Motif
JW> could be built there).
JW> I'm not sure, but i think Satoshi was about correcting the
JW> package on the FTP server. The only other alternative is to
JW> recompile XEmacs yourself. (Well, or to buy Motif. :-)
I always compile (X)Emacs without Motif, also when I have it
available. Emacs works much nicer without Motif (with Athena/Lucid
widgets).
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