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Date: Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:12:31 -0500 (EST)
From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>
To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu>
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Subject: Re: upgrading XFree86
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On Sun, 13 Jul 1997, Chuck Robey wrote:

> On Sun, 13 Jul 1997, Randall Hopper wrote:
> 
> > Chuck Robey:
> >  |I want to upgrade my XFree86 to 3.3, but I have a ton of stuff in my
> >  |existing /usr/X11R6 ... does anyone know if XFree86 can be upgraded via an
> >  |overlay?  Otherwise, this's gonna be the upgrade from hell ...
> > 
> > I know what you mean.  For the same reason we compile non-X ports into
> > /usr/local, I'd sure like to see our X ports compiled for /usr/local/X11.
> 
> This'd be pretty difficult, I think, because of imake's very incestuous
> relationship with the X11R6 tree.  It would be a fantastic win, but I just
> don't think it'd be possible.

Some time ago I tried in vain to get things to work outside of
/usr/X11R6.  However, the imake stuff has changed quite a bit in
the last couple releases---I discovered this when trying to
re-compile Motif 2.0 with R6.3.  There were a quite a few
improvements, some of which might be helpful.  However, I start
feeling homicidal if I work with imake too long so I would
encourage someone else to revisit the issue.  :) 

Have a look at http://www.primate.wisc.edu/software/imake-stuff/
for some useful information about recent changes.

-john