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Date:      18 Dec 2000 12:09:32 +0100
From:      Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
To:        Jeremy Shaffner <jeremy@external.org>
Cc:        jmz@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: XFree86-4 Port
Message-ID:  <xzppuiqyoib.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: Jeremy Shaffner's message of "Sun, 17 Dec 2000 00:42:52 -0600"
References:  <20001217004251.A47353@external.org>

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Jeremy Shaffner <jeremy@external.org> writes:
> Both as a Ports user and Maintainer, I think it would be a good idea to add
> a message to the XFree86-4 port that suggests setting XFREE86_VERSION=4
> after it's installed.
> 
> I walked away from a long ports build that wound up installing Mesa3 and
> apps that were built with Mesa's GL.14 instead of X4's GL.1.

You need Mesa anyway, because USE_MESA (perhaps incorrectly) results
in a dependency on GLU.1, which XFree86 4 doesn't have.

Another bug in the XFree86 4 support: ports that need X depend on the
XFree86-4-libraries port. If you installed the XFree86-4 port instead,
you don't need (or want) that port, but packages that need X will
require it, and install it unless you specifically ask pkg_add not to
install dependencies (in which case you have to install all the
*other* dependencies manually...) The (apparent) solution is to have
the XFree86-4 port register empty packages for all the components it
installs that have a separate port.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org


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