From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Apr 29 11:12:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from caffeine.gerp.org (caffeine.gerp.org [216.80.26.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E128837B74D for ; Sat, 29 Apr 2000 11:12:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kdulzo@caffeine.gerp.org) Received: (qmail 5899 invoked by uid 100); 29 Apr 2000 18:02:50 -0000 Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2000 13:02:50 -0500 From: "Kevin M. Dulzo" To: Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xpm & XFree86-4 Message-ID: <20000429130249.A24123@caffeine.gerp.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from asami@freebsd.org on Sat, Apr 29, 2000 at 02:32:49AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, Apr 29, 2000 at 02:32:49AM -0700, Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami wrote: > > * I have currently become a little irritated with the dependency > * not found issue when using Xpm based ports with XFree86-4. As well, > * a grep xpm /usr/ports/INDEX | wc shows 413 ports that require Xpm > * libraries. > > What is the "dependency not found issue when using Xpm based ports > with XFree86-4"? > This would be in regards to deinstalling the ports, they retain the @pkgdep for xpm. They do build just fine. > * Would it seem prudent to add a USE_XPM to bsd.port.mk to make this > * easier? As well, it would then seem to have a make.conf entry for those > * of us who do use XFree86-4 for something like USE_XFREE86_4 which both > * deals with depending on /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4 and eliminates xpm > * specific dependencies when using XFree86-4. > > We're planning to switch to XFree86-4 for everything except for > servers soon. So hopefully this will be a non-issue. > In that case, I wouldn't mind, but would not the reverse seem prudent. I know there are still y server works in 3.3.6 and not 4 and z server workds in 4 and not 3.3.6, wouldn't a USE_X336 type of deal be convenient then? > * Anyone ever note that comment above the USE_XLIB line that doesn't > * make any sense in regards to the actual effect the variables have???? > > If you are talking about these lines: > > * # Don't try to build XFree86 even if ALWAYS_BUILD_DEPENDS is defined -- > * # it's just too big.... > > that's exactly what it means. I doubt people with > ALWAYS_BUILD_DEPENDS would appreciate all their USE_XLIB ports > suddenly taking hours to compile.... I think somehow out of context it makes more sense... =) -Kevin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message