From owner-freebsd-stable Wed May 8 10:59:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from www.golsyd.net.au (golsyd.net.au [203.57.20.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4498337B406 for ; Wed, 8 May 2002 10:59:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [203.51.11.73] by www.quake.com.au (NTMail 4.30.0012/AB6169.63.5324aadf) with ESMTP id pehfaaaa for ; Thu, 9 May 2002 03:59:37 +1000 Message-ID: <3CD96771.1090307@quake.com.au> Date: Thu, 09 May 2002 03:59:13 +1000 From: Kal Torak Organization: Quake Networking User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020311 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ian Cc: freebsd-stable Subject: Re: XFree86-4-libraries wont build (fixed) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed 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 Ian wrote: > > 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. Yep even a simple message when you type make that says "WARNING: this may fail to build if you have XFree86 3.x installed!!!" I was sitting around wondering why the damn thing wouldnt make and really it gave me no clues... If there was something like that I would of given 3.x a nice rm -rf as soon as I ran into problems ;) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message