On 3 May 2003, Thomas Hafner wrote:

>
> yesterday I tried to install the binary package Emacs for NetBSD 1.6,
> but Emacs refused to start. Emacs was missing a file Xaw*.so.7 (Sorry

Probably something like:
Shared object "libXaw.so.7" not found.

This is because package was built under XFree86-4 which provides that
library.

> could have to do with my problem. I don't yet use X Window system, but
> that should not imply a problem (on other machines I run Emacs without
> X, even on a NetBSD system).

Look for the editors/emacs-nox11 package.

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://bsd.reedmedia.net/