From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Oct 25 10:46:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C68AA37B401 for ; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 10:46:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from haystack.lclark.edu (haystack.lclark.edu [149.175.1.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF3E843E42 for ; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 10:46:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eta@lclark.edu) Received: from copeland-30-191.lclark.edu (anholt@copeland-30-191.lclark.edu [149.175.30.191]) by haystack.lclark.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA25086; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 10:45:44 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: X11 display problem From: Eric Anholt To: "Brandon D. Valentine" Cc: Paul Schenkeveld , FreeBSD Hackers List In-Reply-To: <20021025120447.M277-100000@taran.dhcp.mc.vanderbilt.edu> References: <20021025120447.M277-100000@taran.dhcp.mc.vanderbilt.edu> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 Date: 25 Oct 2002 10:45:44 -0700 Message-Id: <1035567946.897.9.camel@anholt.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 10:07, Brandon D. Valentine wrote: > On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Paul Schenkeveld wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 11:57:59AM -0500, Brandon D. Valentine wrote: > > > > > > I'm not near my FreeBSD machines at this moment but this weekend I'll > > > hack up the necessary patch if nobody else bothers. Probably better to > > > call it something less ambigious like X11_LISTEN_TCP or similar so those > > > who want to put it in make.conf don't incur namespace ambiguity and > > > possible collision with other ports that might use similar make > > > variables with different semantic meaning. WITH_TCP doesn't have the > > > same sort of global meaning that WITH_GNOME does. > > > > May I suggest WITH_STARTX_TCP ? > > > > My $0.02 > > If I have any input it'll be WITH_X11_TCP or X11_LISTEN_TCP or similar. > If the upstream xdm is fixed to turn off listen_tcp by default we'll > want one flag to turn the behavior back on for both xdm and startx so > naming the make variable startx would only serve to obscure it from xdm > users (myself included). WITH_TCP_(LISTEN_)DEFAULT? It's not exactly a compile-time option like most WITH_BLAH. However, this plus a message at the start of the build and maybe a pkg-message note makes me much more comfortable with the startx/xdm changes. I may get to it this weekend. Complete patches submitted will get it done sooner :) -- Eric Anholt http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/dri/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message