On Wed, 15 May 2002, Jeff Flowers wrote:

> On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 07:55:13PM -0400, Jeff Flowers wrote:
> > I have downloaded and installed the Emacs package from ftp.netbsd.org. While
> > it installed with no problem, it will not run. When I type "emacs", I get:
> >
> > Shared object "libXaw.so.7" not found

> So my question is: is libXaw.so.7 a library from a different version of X then
> the one that comes with NetBSD 1.5.2?

Yes. It comes with XFree 4. There are evidently serious problems with
the "i386/1.5" binary packages on ftp.netbsd.org (again!). Even if you
install XFree 4 (which is in .../arch/i386 as a tarball, but not as a
package), you're likely to encounter other problems with dependencies
that can't be fulfilled. You're best bet is to build emacs from
source. Building and running "pkgsrc" packages on the same machine
usually works -- it's the binary packages, unfortunately, that are
often messed up.

Frederick