Date: Thu, 28 Dec 1995 01:13:14 +0000 From: mark@linus.demon.co.uk (Mark Valentine) To: rich@lamprey.utmb.edu, paul@netcraft.co.uk Cc: p.richards@elsevier.co.uk, asami@cs.berkeley.edu, jkh@time.cdrom.com, andreas@knobel.gun.de, graichen@omega.physik.fu-berlin.de, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pcnfsd.. Message-ID: <199512280113.BAA03208@linus.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Rich Murphey's message of Dec 27, 6:07pm
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> From: Rich Murphey <rich@lamprey.utmb.edu> > Date: Wed 27 Dec, 1995 > Subject: Re: pcnfsd.. > Do you want the clients to read another configuration file that will > specify the default location of all other configuration files on local > filesystems? This would add the overhead of opening the extra > configuration file and you'd be faced with a similar issue of chosing > a location for the runtime determination of that path. > > Or do you want to have the clients search > /usr/local/lib/X11/app-defaults first before looking in > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults? Or do you have another scheme in > mind? Rich The existing environment variables are probably fine for tweaking the core XFree86 setup post-installation. My problems are usually due to additional stuff (e.g. ports), installing themselves, or expecting their data files, in ProjectRoot. Environment variables are too fragile to handle this reliably. What I'd like to be able to do is tell xmkmf to produce a Makefile which installs the add-on package (including its app-defaults) under /usr/local (or wherever, on a per-package basis) and look for them there by default (not just by adding another directory to the search path in the hope that it'll find what it's looking for) - yet without losing track of all the stuff it needs to find from the XFree86 base system in ProjectRoot (i.e. changing ProjectRoot for the package doesn't hack it). Is this what others have in mind too? Mark.
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