Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 10:02:39 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> To: Satoshi Asami <asami@cs.berkeley.edu> Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree86 use of libgnumalloc Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971027100006.11899F-100000@picnic.mat.net> In-Reply-To: <199710271120.DAA02034@bubble.didi.com>
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On Mon, 27 Oct 1997, Satoshi Asami wrote: > * I just releaded the XiG motif, that's where that sucker came from! I'll > * write them .... I had to order new media from them, my original floppies > * turned out to be unreadable ... they only charged me $10 for the new cdrom > * media, thought that was fair, and they've _really_ improved their install > * script, but I guess there's more to go. > > Yeah. XiG doesn't appear to be overly interested (to put it mildly) > about XFree86 compatibility, Well, they sell their own server, so they're in competetition with XFree86, I guess. They're polite about it, I guess, so maybe it's expected. we've got a lot of reports of this sort > from innocent XiG users. Maybe I should add a check to bsd.port.mk to > see if XiG stuff is installed and warn the user that we test ports > only with XFree86.... That seems a little extreme ... or, at least, make the warning message more explicit, warn that XiG uses a config setup that works badly with newer XFree86 installs. > > Satoshi > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 3.0 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------
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