How do you require Xorg?

[Paul Schmehl]

--On Tuesday, March 18, 2008 13:46:27 -0400 Wesley Shields <wxs at FreeBSD.org> 
wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 12:10:15PM -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote:
>> --On Tuesday, March 18, 2008 09:27:34 -0700 Mark Foster <mark at foster.cc>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> The Xorg components should, if possible, be optional, IMO.
>>> Anyway, thanks for working on this. Have you looked at the NetBSD
>>> implementation as reference?
>>> http://pkgsrc.se/sysutils/open-vm-tools
>>
>> No, I had not.  Thanks for the tip.
>>
>> They have a number of build depends as well as run depends.  My problem is
>> that I already have Xorg 7.3 installed, so the software builds fine without
>> requiring anything additional, and there's no documentation (that I can
>> find) that tells you what software is required to build the package.  But
>> it looks like I should add those build and run depends to the Makefile for
>> the port, right?
>
> I've found ports-mgmt/tinderbox to be great for doing build-testing of a
> port.  Might be helpful for you also.
>

Thanks for the tip.

-- 
Paul Schmehl (pauls at utdallas.edu)
Senior Information Security Analyst
The University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/