From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Sep 18 9:52:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD23037B409 for ; Tue, 18 Sep 2001 09:52:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97] helo=dogma) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #6) id 15jO6m-00011o-00; Tue, 18 Sep 2001 17:52:28 +0100 Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma (8.11.4/8.11.1) id f8IGqSx52117; Tue, 18 Sep 2001 17:52:28 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jcm) Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 17:52:28 +0100 From: j mckitrick To: Jeff Lee Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why does installing X require the compat3x and compat4x dists Message-ID: <20010918175227.A51997@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <20010918012828.A98117@dragon.nuxi.com> <008301c1405d$0aa33990$38934dc7@cnd.gatech.edu> <20010918173514.B51703@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <006001c14061$b7050750$38934dc7@cnd.gatech.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <006001c14061$b7050750$38934dc7@cnd.gatech.edu>; from dibble@cc.gatech.edu on Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 12:48:16PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 12:48:16PM -0400, Jeff Lee wrote: | When I installed linux-mandrake, it installed XFree86 4.0 and worked | fine, but under FreeBSD it wouldn't work. Right now this is only an annoyance, but I wonder if there is anything that could streamline building 4.x so it works and installs as smoothly as 3.x? There has to be some issue (or handful of issues) that are making this much more difficult than it needs to be. I wish I knew what I could do to help, but it's beyond my ability right now. jm -- My other computer is your windows box. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message