How do you require Xorg?

[Wesley Shields]

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 09:42:06PM -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote:
> --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?

You can always make a slave port which defaults to X being on and have X
be off in the master port, if there is enough demand for that
configuration.  That way packages will be built for both.

-- WXS