Xorg 7.3 xdm reads worng configuration files

Florent Thoumie flz at xbsd.org
Fri Sep 14 09:17:21 PDT 2007


Christoph Moench-Tegeder wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> after upgrading Xorg to version 7.3 xdm failed to start. A short truss
> revealed that xdm reads its config files in /usr/local/share/examples/xdm/
> instead of (as expected and done in 7.2) /usr/local/lib/X11/xdm/.
> Obviously, x11/xdm/Makefile adds "--with-xdmconfigdir=${EXAMPLESDIR}
> --with-xdmscriptdir=${EXAMPLESDIR}" to CONFIGURE_ARGS, which does not
> only control the location of the included examples but also the paths
> where xdm looks for its configuration.
> I guess this was missed in testing because in these days nobody changes
> his xdm config :)

Won't have much time to fix it today, expect a fix tomorrow.

Thanks for the report.

-- 
Florent Thoumie
flz at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD Committer


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