X11/Xorg library dependencies

[Gregory W. MacPherson]

I just finished spending much more time than I would like to building
out various library and toolkit components to get Xorg working on my
FreeBSD 6.3 STABLE box. Apparently the dependency tree looks something
like this:

libICE
libSM
libXt
libXext
libXpm
libXmu

Where each library requires the ones list before it in the list.

It would be nice if the owners of these various ports would update their
Makefiles and Configuration scripts to check for the existence of the
other ports and (gasp) actually build the missing dependencies). While
some ports fail with suggestive messages, I long for the days when port
maintainers understood the dependencies (rather than assuming them
because they have always been on the developers' systems).

-- Greg

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Gregory W. MacPherson
Global Network Exploitation Specialist, CISSP
http://www.datasieve.net/greg/