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Subject: Re: Is X installed?
From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami)
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 * Is there an approved method for a port to tell if X is installed
 * on the target machine?

Depends on what you mean by "X is installed". :)

I'd probably test /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.a or something.  But you need
to tell us what you are trying to do.

Satoshi