From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 1 08:52:33 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: ports@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D46B516A41F for ; Tue, 1 Nov 2005 08:52:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from ext-gw.lemis.com (ext-gw.lemis.com [150.101.14.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FDA743D46 for ; Tue, 1 Nov 2005 08:52:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.135]) by ext-gw.lemis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05C721310AB; Tue, 1 Nov 2005 19:22:31 +1030 (CST) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id D024184F8C; Tue, 1 Nov 2005 19:22:31 +1030 (CST) Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 19:22:31 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Kris Kennaway Message-ID: <20051101085231.GG18710@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20051101073027.GD18710@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20051101082610.GA80303@xor.obsecurity.org> <20051101084439.GF18710@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="0z5c7mBtSy1wdr4F" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051101084439.GF18710@wantadilla.lemis.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Problems installing Xaw3d? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 08:52:34 -0000 --0z5c7mBtSy1wdr4F Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday, 1 November 2005 at 19:14:39 +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Tuesday, 1 November 2005 at 3:26:11 -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 06:00:27PM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >>> I've just tried several times to install emacs on a freshly installed >>> 7.0 box (Dell Inspiron 6000 FWIW). The Emacs installation fails >>> consistently with the following messages: >>> >>> ... >> >> Looks like you're using XFree86 (not the default), but don't have >> X_WINDOW_SYSTEM set appropriately (see /usr/ports/UPDATING). > > No. Everything's the default. To clarify: this is a fresh install. Of course, I missed the obvious question: why should this make any difference? I glanced through /usr/ports/UPDATING, but nothing reached out and grabbed me. I don't suppose you really expect everybody to read an entire 45+ pages of docco to understand why their view of the world varies from that of the ports collection. Linux distributions install all this stuff by default. If we don't, why should we expect anybody to care about trying? Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --0z5c7mBtSy1wdr4F Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDZyzPIubykFB6QiMRAsh2AJ9kaQPcgJyyXe/t4Wd6prvFLpI8cACdGSWl XbDM7mp4lu8pmdE5shVWgfc= =W0yJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --0z5c7mBtSy1wdr4F--