X11/Xorg library dependencies

Florent Thoumie flz at xbsd.org
Fri Feb 15 01:22:27 PST 2008


On Fri, Feb 8, 2008 at 7:02 PM, Gregory W. MacPherson
<greg at datasieve.net> wrote:
> 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).

You're lucky you got an answer.

Next time change the tone of your email, kthxbye.

-- 
Florent Thoumie
flz at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD Committer


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