From owner-freebsd-stable Wed May 8 9:51: 4 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from damnhippie.dyndns.org (12-253-177-2.client.attbi.com [12.253.177.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E960E37B400 for ; Wed, 8 May 2002 09:50:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [172.22.42.2] (peace.hippie.lan [172.22.42.2]) by damnhippie.dyndns.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g48GouG75523 for ; Wed, 8 May 2002 10:50:56 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org) User-Agent: Microsoft Outlook Express Macintosh Edition - 5.01 (1630) Date: Wed, 08 May 2002 10:51:02 -0600 Subject: Re: XFree86-4-libraries wont build (fixed) From: Ian To: freebsd-stable Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20020508162720.GP8681@leviathan.inethouston.net> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit 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 >>> [XFree86-4 build errors]. >>> >> >> Having version 3 around makes it impossible to build version 4 in ports? >> That sounds like something that needs to be fixed in the port. >> >> I had exactly the same errors you did, I just gave up easily because I have >> no real desire to run a newer version, since version 3 does everything I >> need. > > Everyone is eager to suggest the port fix it, but not so eager to > impliment a method for this > If I knew how to fix it, I'd be happy to submit it. I've looked into some ports makefiles and the patch system and whatnot just enough to realize I don't understand it. It's nicely magical, it "just works". I can understand that fixing the XFree86-4 build problem when version 3 is installed could be anything from "very hard" to "there's just no way to get there from here". But in that case, a workaround in lieu of a fix may be in order: have the makefile check for the existance of a v3 /usr/X11R6 directory and spit out a useful "whine and die" message about how that can create problems. Maybe it could spit out a url to a FAQ about it, or something. -- Ian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message