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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!phaedrus.kralizec.net.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!ix.netcom.com!enews.sgi.com!insync!news.maxwell.syr.edu!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!204.179.98.2!news.visigenic.com!news From: Tim O'Neil <toneil@visigenic.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: emacs: ld.so failed (970205-GAMMA) Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 13:19:45 +0000 Organization: Visigenic Software, Inc. Lines: 38 Message-ID: <330C4F71.2ADD@visigenic.com> References: <5ehv8e$1pl@news1.panix.com> Reply-To: toneil@visigenic.com NNTP-Posting-Host: vsi48.visigenic.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (WinNT; U) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35830 Michael R Weholt wrote: > Anyway, any advice? I don't have X11 installed if that has > anything to do with anything. I can't believe getting something as > basic as emacs to run can be this difficult. And, btw, I have other > stuff like lynx & joe running fine. This is a standalone, "just > screwing around" machine. Well, emacs isn't basic anymore. Its come a long way from its start as a little editing tool on a pdp-10. It has X11 dependancies and whatever else. I too had the same problem even though I had X installed. Fortunatly however the walnut creek cdrom comes with so many darn options if one way doesn't work go for another. Not only is there an emacs in the packages, the ports collection comes with a copy. Before you do anything add the gnu make package (I didn't have a problem with gmake anyway...) Remove the pkg_add'd emacs, and untar the port. su to root and in my case, I have a home-brewed i386 machine using an amd 486dx4 processor. So *my* configure line looks like: # configure freebsd --with-gcc then # gmake install I agree, installing emacs is no cakewalk, but it can be done. It took me about 3 tries to get it right, I picked the wrong platform argument (the readme is a little vague, but persistence paid off) and I forget to be root a few times, but after the fight I was the proud user of an emacs 19.3something installation. By the way, I noticed with amusement the number of bug entries for the Sun platforms in the PROBLEMS file... my gosh, its and endless litany of caveats and known problems with that system, whereas freeBSD had one entry, and it wasn't a problem, just a caveat. How did Sun ever get to be the number one unix provider anyway...?