From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 30 15: 5:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from empty1.ekahuna.com (empty1.ekahuna.com [198.144.200.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AED2F37B41C for ; Fri, 30 Nov 2001 15:05:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from pc-02 (pc02.ekahuna.com [198.144.200.197]) by empty1.ekahuna.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-0U10L2S100V35) with ESMTP id com; Fri, 30 Nov 2001 15:05:19 -0800 From: "Philip J. Koenig" Organization: The Electric Kahuna Organization To: Josh Paetzel Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 15:05:23 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Am I forced to install Xfree86? Reply-To: pjklist@ekahuna.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG 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 X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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