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From: "Michael O'Henly" <michael@tenzo.com>
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Subject: Detection of XFree86 version -- How does it work?
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 06:56:32 -0700
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I'm running XFree86-4.0.3. I notice that when I build an X application (i.e., 
xemacs), XFree86-3.3.6 appears to get built as well . At least I think it 
does -- at the end of the install process, one of the packages that gets 
"cleaned" is XFree86-3.3.6.

Here's what I think is happening. Make calls for the earlier version because 
that's its default behaviour. It retrieves and (maybe) builds it, but doesn't 
install it because it finds that a later version of X is already installed.

Is this correct?

I've added "XFree_Version=4" to /etc/make.conf but it doesn't seem to affect 
this behaviour.

Thanks.

M.

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Michael O'Henly
TENZO Design

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