X11R6.8.2 can't be compiled in 5.3 Release?

[Michael Nottebrock]

On Wednesday, 13. April 2005 08:41, Xu Qiang wrote:
> Eric Anholt wrote:
> > You should be building X.Org from the ports collection, or just using
> > current binary packages.  X.Org releases are set up to require
> > software that we provide through ports rather than building (older
> > version of) them itself.
>
> But in company, the connection to outside is limited to HTTP protocol. In
> this case, I don't think ports can be used.

Yes you can: The sysutils/portsnap port/package fetches and updates 
ports-trees over http.

> You mean we can't directly build the X Window system from X11R6.8.2 src
> distribution? 

Of course you can, but we only support the ports/packages.

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