From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 25 12:58:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kendra.ne.mediaone.net (kendra.ne.mediaone.net [24.218.227.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60D5F37B422 for ; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 12:58:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from avatar+public@canary.kew.com) Received: from xena (xena.hh.kew.com [192.168.203.148]) by kendra.ne.mediaone.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 3F3888C3F for ; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 15:58:13 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <023f01c0cdc2$0f73ca10$94cba8c0@hh.kew.com> From: "Drew Derbyshire" Cc: References: <01c201c0cda0$b5db6650$94cba8c0@hh.kew.com> <20010425120737.D49519@guinness.osdn.com> Subject: Re: Building /usr/X11R6/bin/ Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 15:58:12 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > make world doesn't touch X. X is not part of the base system, it's 3rd party software Just as an aside ... I'm caught off guard because it is inconsistent with other third party components. SENDMAIL and the various GNU tools are third-party as well, but they go into the base system (as opposed to the /usr/local tree) using the same system binary installation procedure as X binaries -- but these other components are built with the base system. X is installed from the dist files (as opposed to package files) and into the base system (as opposed to the /usr/local/ tree), so one can reasonably expect them to be installed in a like fashion. But of course, it's not. :-) > . If you want to update X, use the port. Hmmm. The ports aren't building. But that's another matter.... -ahd- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message