From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 29 10:30:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from visimation.com (visimation.com [206.169.230.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1703137C24E for ; Wed, 29 May 2002 10:16:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Spooler by visimation.com (Mercury/32 v3.31) ID MO00020B; 29 May 02 10:05:39 -0700 Received: from spooler by visimation.com (Mercury/32 v3.31); 29 May 02 10:05:32 -0700 Received: from adam (10.0.0.100) by visimation.com (Mercury/32 v3.31) with ESMTP ID MG00020A; 29 May 02 10:05:21 -0700 Reply-To: From: "Adam Lofstedt" To: Subject: RE: Installing XFree86-4.X - Wraphelp.c? Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 10:16:26 -0700 Organization: Visimation, Inc. Message-ID: <006901c20734$910ac090$6400000a@adam> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.3416 In-reply-to: Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > -----Original Message----- > From: Jud [mailto:jud@myrealbox.com] > Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 4:54 PM > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; adaml@visimation.com > Subject: Re: Installing XFree86-4.X - Wraphelp.c? > > > 5/28/2002 6:39:30 PM, "Adam Lofstedt" > wrote: > > >I cvsup'ed the ports and then followed the directions in the > handbook > >to install XFree86-4 by doing cd /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4 > and then make > all > >install clean. > > > >When I tried this, it caused an error stating that > Wraphelp.c could not > >be found. I believe that this is part of XDM, is that correct? Is > >this a necessary part of the X system? > > > >The error said that I should manually update the ports so that > >Wraphelp.c is in /usr/ports/distfiles/xc. > > > >So, I ftp'd to ftp://ftp.psy.uq.oz.au/pub/X11R5, got > Wraphelp.c.gz, and > >placed it in the xc directory. I tried make again, but it still > >couldn't find it. What do I need to do? > > > >Thanks, > >Adam Lofstedt > > It's a wrapper to let you run X without having to be > superuser or root. > The port takes about 5 seconds to install - > /usr/ports/x11/wrapper. One > "gotcha" - you should have an /etc/make.conf file that tells wrapper > you're running XFree-86 version 4.x. To do this, if you > haven't already, > copy /etc/defaults/make.conf to /etc, then uncomment anything you > want to enable, including a line regarding XFree version=4. > > Jud > I tried to install this "wrapper", but I got the exact same syntax error in Wraphelp.c as when I tried to install X. Is there a way to install X without this wrapper (which I don't need)? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message