Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 15:05:23 -0800 From: "Philip J. Koenig" <pjklist@ekahuna.com> To: Josh Paetzel <friar_josh@webwarrior.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Am I forced to install Xfree86? Message-ID: <3C07A033.31410.4A3589@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20011130165143.A469@twincat.vladsempire.net> References: <3C06D1E3.14504.211C039@localhost>; from pjklist@ekahuna.com on Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 12:25:07AM -0800
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On 30 Nov 2001, at 16:51, Josh Paetzel boldly uttered: > > I can't even find a manpage or other docs for "gtk" on the machine > > that now has it installed. I'm sure there might be something in the > > X11 or gnome directories that is some variation of "gtk", but are you > > starting to see my point about what I'm going through just to install > > a rudimentary command-line traceroute utility? > > > > > > Phil > > > The way the port is supposed to work is as follows: > If X is on the machine, install the port to use X. > If X is on the machine, and you do make WITHOUT_GTK=yes then it will > build the port in the command line version. > If X is not on the machine install as a command line util. > > That's how it works on my systems. > > Part of the confusion is that mtr is NOT just a simple command line > program. It is a command line program that also will work within X > using the GTK toolkit. > > Josh Fair enough - maybe it's a relative anomaly in that respect. On the other hand, I certainly would never expect something like a lynx port to care in the least about X or GTK or anything else GUI related.. so maybe it's a moot point. I only know that on one of my other boxes where I have installed mtr, there is no sign of GTK anywhere. (X is on there.. but probably because it was installed as a dependency for something. I don't use it) Maybe I installed it on that machine as a binary package.. but if so, I guess the package was compiled with "WANT_GTK= NO".. :-) -- Philip J. Koenig pjklist@ekahuna.com Electric Kahuna Systems -- Computers & Communications for the New Millenium To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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