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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!rill.news.pipex.net!pipex!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.pir.net!peterra 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 Organization: involved in moving 4000 miles: lots. Lines: 26 Distribution: world Message-ID: <5g120i$gok$1@moek.pir.net> References: <01bc2c62$5c6d10c0$e2749888@professor.hip.berkeley.edu> <5fveun$62g$1@bofh.noc.best.net> <daniel-0903972137450001@giffin.student.harvard.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: pur.uunet.pipex.com X-no-archive: yes X-Comment: Boycott Internet Spam! See http://www.vix.com/spam/ X-Newsreader: Nope, its ASCII based. Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:36868 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. -- pir pir@darkwave.org.uk pir@pir.net pir@pipex.net