5.2-rc2, x11/XFree86-4 doesn't build

Eric Anholt eta at lclark.edu
Tue Jan 6 11:58:43 PST 2004


On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 11:48, David Raistrick wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, David Raistrick wrote:
> 
> >
> > Folks,
> >
> > Should the x11/XFree86-4 port from the 5.2-rc2 ISO's (from ftp2) build
> > with a simple "cd /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4/ && make" ?
> 
> Aaaah, I see where the issue comes up.
> 
> My PATH only includes /usr/X11R6/bin if it exists upon login.  Since this
> is created post-login in this case, imake is not in my path.  The build
> process seems to make the assumption that imake would be in the path,
> which would work fine for a stock .cshrc for root.
> 
> Would it be better to not assume that /usr/X11R6/bin is in the path, or
> should I just make a note of this for future reference for myself?

It would be better, but annoying to fix properly, most likely.  For now,
/usr/X11R6/bin in your path is required to build.

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