From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Aug 31 01:26:21 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id BAA27923 for ports-outgoing; Sun, 31 Aug 1997 01:26:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pacific.net (btman@pacific.pacific.net [199.4.80.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id BAA27918 for ; Sun, 31 Aug 1997 01:26:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (btman@localhost) by pacific.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id BAA17393 for ; Sun, 31 Aug 1997 01:26:17 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 31 Aug 1997 01:26:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian Tiemann To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Ports that seem to require libXext.so.6.1 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi-- Just a note I wanted to bring up: Certain packages, like ytalk and emacs, are listed and available as ports for FreeBSD... I know these programs don't require X, but when I install them as packages from /stand/sysinstall, they complain about needing libXext.so.6.1 when I run them. Installing them as ports, some (like ytalk) insist that they need X11 installed for them to compile. Others (like emacs) will compile. My machine is a headless box that will never run graphics; I just thought I ought to bring this point up so you might put up an appropriate warning for those ports that can't be fixed, and possibly look into a fix for those which can be fixed...? Thanks-- I appreciate it! Brian