Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2001 09:26:36 +1000 (EST) From: edwin@mavetju.org To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: ports/28380: XFree86-4 doesn't give enough information after installing (/etc/make.conf) Message-ID: <20010623232636.B5730105@k7.mavetju.org>
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>Number: 28380 >Category: ports >Synopsis: XFree86-4 doesn't give enough information after installing (/etc/make.conf) >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-ports >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: doc-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Sat Jun 23 16:30:06 PDT 2001 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Edwin Groothuis >Release: FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386 >Organization: - >Environment: # $FreeBSD: ports/x11/XFree86-4/Makefile,v 1.126 2001/06/13 19:50:52 jmz Exp $ >Description: After installing XFree86-4.1.0_4 and trying to compile some ports (for example, xlockmore) they didn't compile because an environment variable from /etc/make.conf was missing. >How-To-Repeat: Install XFree86-4 port, then try to compile xlockmore. It will stop after complaining about some pthread functions. Looking in the Makefile of xlockmore I saw that there were references to XFREE86_VERSION, but I was never informed that such a variable should exist. >Fix: [/usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4] edwin@k7>diff -u pkg-message.old pkg-message --- pkg-message.old Sun Jun 24 09:19:18 2001 +++ pkg-message Sun Jun 24 09:20:38 2001 @@ -3,3 +3,6 @@ * This is suitable for use with xdm, but not with a startx script. * * If you need to use a startx script, install the x11/wrapper package. * ************************************************************************ +* If XFree86-4 is not a basic part of your operating system, add the * +* following line to /etc/make.conf: XFREE86_VERSION=4 * +************************************************************************ >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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