Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 02:19:01 -0500 From: Parv <parv@pair.com> To: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org, Max Khon <fjoe@samodelkin.net> Subject: Re: xorg 7.x and non-standard X11BASE Message-ID: <20061129071901.GA6960@holestein.holy.cow> In-Reply-To: <456C799B.9010800@FreeBSD.org> References: <20061128174728.GB69619@samodelkin.net> <456C799B.9010800@FreeBSD.org>
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in message <456C799B.9010800@FreeBSD.org>, wrote Doug Barton thusly... > > When xorg 7 is imported, it will be installing into /usr/local. > Shortly thereafter the plan is to do away with the X11BASE stuff > altogether, and have all ports install into /usr/local. > > In order to prepare for this change, and to fix as many ports as > possible before it happens, the ports cluster has started running > experimental builds with X11BASE set to something that is not > /usr/X11R6 AND not /usr/local. So, you can easily reproduce this > condition by doing the same thing yourself. ... > There are two ways to do this. Either way you choose, you have to > put something like this in /etc/make.conf: X11BASE= > /usr/local/xorg I chose that directory for my experiment, you can > use whatever directory works for you that is NOT /usr/X11R6 or > /usr/local. I have been using X11BASE=/misc/local/X (set in /etc/rc.conf; /usr/X11R6 is symlinked to it) at least since Dec 2006 (Xorg 6.2). So far I have not noticed any problems with 343-some ports (which do not have a great deal of GNOME or KDE). Short of testing with full blown GNONE|KDE, is there anything else I can try to test? Should I try without the /usr/X11R6 symlink? - Parv --
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