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Subject: Re: Gripe of the week (tm) :-)
From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami/=?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCQHUbKEI=?= =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCOCsbKEIgGyRCOC0bKEI=?=)
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(following up on my previous message on this subject....)

 * Um, that doesn't work because your imake config files are saying
 * otherwise!  bsd.port.mk depends on imake to create the Makefile for X
 * utilities.  Go into your imake config dir and look at site.def, you
 * should find
 * 
 * #define ProjectRoot /usr/X11R6
 * 
 * Change that line to where you want to put your X tree.

Actually, if we really want to change this from within bsd.port.mk, it
is possible.  We can make it invoke imake with -DProjectRoot=${PREFIX}
(or X11BASE?).

The problem is that there is no way to pass this option through xmkmf,
and calling imake directly might give us compatibility problems when
future releases of X comes out with an xmkmf that calls imake with
a different set of arguments (currently it's "imake -DUseInstalled
-I/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config" with a preceding mv to backup the
Makefile).

Also, I'm not convinced that this is a good idea anyway.  If you want
your X stuff in a different place, you *should* edit your site.def or
you'll have to fix your Makefiles every time you call xmkmf by
yourself and not from bsd.port.mk.

Satoshi