Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 09:22:26 +0000 From: "Florent Thoumie" <flz@xbsd.org> To: "Gregory W. MacPherson" <greg@datasieve.net> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X11/Xorg library dependencies Message-ID: <a01628140802150122o585a8740rafb64cde2c47c5a5@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20080208190257.GC4631@b2.datasieve.net> References: <20080208190257.GC4631@b2.datasieve.net>
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On Fri, Feb 8, 2008 at 7:02 PM, Gregory W. MacPherson <greg@datasieve.net> wrote: > I just finished spending much more time than I would like to building > out various library and toolkit components to get Xorg working on my > FreeBSD 6.3 STABLE box. Apparently the dependency tree looks something > like this: > > libICE > libSM > libXt > libXext > libXpm > libXmu > > Where each library requires the ones list before it in the list. > > It would be nice if the owners of these various ports would update their > Makefiles and Configuration scripts to check for the existence of the > other ports and (gasp) actually build the missing dependencies). While > some ports fail with suggestive messages, I long for the days when port > maintainers understood the dependencies (rather than assuming them > because they have always been on the developers' systems). You're lucky you got an answer. Next time change the tone of your email, kthxbye. -- Florent Thoumie flz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD Committer
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