Wanted: binary build of Emacs without X11

[Paul Hoffman]

At 11:36 AM -0500 9/7/08, Scot Hetzel wrote:
>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.

Many thanks. Done.