ports/66404: New port: x11-servers/X.org-devel

Tilman Linneweh arved at FreeBSD.org
Sun May 9 05:32:57 PDT 2004


* Eric Anholt [So, 09 Mai 2004 at 10:21 GMT]:

Welcome back. You must have really missed hacking, since you spend the 
first days home hacking instead of adding the last Cuba entry to your LJ :-)

> The next steps, off the top of my head:
> - Commit remaining libraries
> - Make sure libX11's locale stuff is complete.  Unfortunately, us
> English-speaking folks that autotooled it may have missed important
> things (I think so).
> - Check xorg-server build on non-x86
> - Commit xorg-server
> - prepare XFree86-4-Server to coexist with and depend appropriately on
> the new libraries

I wonder if this is really necessary. Why not keep the XFree-libraries as
non-default, and if people want to use the XFree86-server, they can set
XFREE86_VERSION?

> The last part is what I'm not sure on.  I've thrown the switch locally
> by changing bsd.port.mk to depend on x11-libraries instead of
> XFree86-4-libraries.  However, I don't know how doing this will
> interfere with non-clean installations, what with CONFLICTS and origin
> differences and all of that.  I'd love advice from other porters on
> this.

Well perhaps we do it the same way, as we did it with XFree 3 vs 4.
Defining XFREE86_VERSION in make.conf.

regards
tilman


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