How do you require Xorg?

[Paul Schmehl]

--On Wednesday, March 19, 2008 9:25 AM +1100 Terry Sposato 
<terry at sucked-in.com> wrote:

> Paul Schmehl wrote:
>> I'm working on porting the open-vm-tools, and the software builds, makes
>> and installs fine, but it obviously won't work without Xorg being
>> installed.  How do you ensure that the port doesn't get installed unless
>> Xorg is installed? Will USE_XORG= yes do the trick?
>>
>
> Paul,
>
> I don't think it is a good idea to use this Knob as the open-vm-tools may
> be useful for machines which don't have Xorg installed as well. For
> example if vmotion etc. works with this set of tools then it will
> definitely be handy for FreeBSD VM's which do not use Xorg.
>

OK.  Here's where I'm at.  I've got a basic port started.  I created an 
option for no X.  The default is no, so the port would build with X as the 
default build.  There's some problems with the kernel modules, and I would 
need help from a programmer to figure those problems out.  Really, someone 
needs to work with the open-vm-tools developers to update their kernel 
modules to work both with previous versions of FreeBSD (which they claim 
they already work with) and with version 7.0.  (So, some ifdefs would be 
needed.)

Is there enough demand for the userland tools that I should go ahead and 
submit the port without the kernel modules working?  I could create an 
option for them and mark it as not working right now.  (Obviously they 
would need to be an option working or not.)

Should I make no X the default install?

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