Wanted: binary build of Emacs without X11

Scot Hetzel swhetzel at gmail.com
Sun Sep 7 16:58:20 UTC 2008


On 9/7/08, Paul Hoffman <phoffman at proper.com> wrote:
> Greetings again. I'm not sure if this request should be done to this mailing
> list or as a PR, but here goes.
>
>  I run FreeBSD as a server, not as a desktop. Some of my users want Emacs.
> If I pull down the prebuilt binary, it requires a zillon X11-related
> packages that are of no use on my system. If I go to
> /usr/ports/editors/emacs and build with WITHOUT_X11, I still need to install
> a bunch of building tools that are basically unneeded by anything other than
> building Emacs.
>
>  It would be nice if the prebuilt binaries had an emacs-nox11.
>
Have a look at print/ghostscript-gnu-nox11/Makefile on how to create
the emacs-nox11 port.

Then use send-pr to to get the port commited.

Scot


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