Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:46:27 -0400 From: Wesley Shields <wxs@FreeBSD.org> To: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> Cc: FreeBSD Ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How do you require Xorg? Message-ID: <20080318174627.GC81007@atarininja.org> In-Reply-To: <216F8CCF451BA9EC345CAAA2@utd65257.utdallas.edu> References: <BD01625602483FE1BA32C7EB@utd65257.utdallas.edu> <47DFED76.2090708@foster.cc> <216F8CCF451BA9EC345CAAA2@utd65257.utdallas.edu>
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On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 12:10:15PM -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote: > --On Tuesday, March 18, 2008 09:27:34 -0700 Mark Foster <mark@foster.cc> wrote: >> >> The Xorg components should, if possible, be optional, IMO. >> Anyway, thanks for working on this. Have you looked at the NetBSD >> implementation as reference? >> http://pkgsrc.se/sysutils/open-vm-tools > > No, I had not. Thanks for the tip. > > They have a number of build depends as well as run depends. My problem is > that I already have Xorg 7.3 installed, so the software builds fine without > requiring anything additional, and there's no documentation (that I can > find) that tells you what software is required to build the package. But > it looks like I should add those build and run depends to the Makefile for > the port, right? I've found ports-mgmt/tinderbox to be great for doing build-testing of a port. Might be helpful for you also. -- WXS
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