ports/66565: [PATCH] bsd.port.mk: fix build dependencies whenXFREE86_VERSION == 3

David Schultz das at FreeBSD.ORG
Wed May 12 14:36:55 PDT 2004


On Wed, May 12, 2004, Mark Linimon wrote:
> Basically, this means that I broke XFree86-3 when I removed the
> (unused according to INDEX) devel/imake.
> 
> The fact that no one has noticed until now (2-3 months later)
> probably means that we should consider removing XFree86-3 as well.
> I wouldn't be surprised to find that our support for it in various
> ports had already failed long before this.

Unfortunately, not all of the XFree86-3 graphics drivers were
ported to XFree86-4, so some people require the older version.
As of roughly 6 months ago, XFree86-3 still worked just fine,
although I'm sure that support will erode over time.


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