Date: Wed, 27 Dec 1995 18:51:06 -0600 From: Rich Murphey <rich@lamprey.utmb.edu> To: paul@netcraft.co.uk Cc: p.richards@elsevier.co.uk, rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com.asami@cs.berkeley.edu, jkh@time.cdrom.com, andreas@knobel.gun.de, graichen@omega.physik.fu-berlin.de, current@freebsd.org Subject: XFree86 configuration files (was: pcnfsd..) Message-ID: <199512280051.SAA09823@rmurphy.slip.bcm.tmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <199512280013.AAA05031@server.netcraft.co.uk> (message from Paul Richards on Thu, 28 Dec 1995 00:13:40 %2B0000 (GMT))
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|From: Paul Richards <paul@netcraft.co.uk> |I think it's a build issue rather than a runtime issue. I'd want |to be able to set something in bsd.ports.mk, which itself would |probably look in /etc/sysconfig, that specified where local X |programs lived, e.g. /usr/local/X11. I don't think this is currently |easy (or at all possible) because of what gets picked up running |xmkmf. When building the core X11R6 you can specify a top directory of the tree other than /usr/X11R6 fairly easily in xc/config/cf/site.def. So you could to read a value of /usr/local/X11 from /etc/sysconfig and use sed to replace it in xc/config/cf/site.def. When you're building clients outside the core source tree using xmkmf this would depend on the sources of the particular package, but I imagine you would want to edit the Imakefile to set the paths. You could also make a copy of imake's configuration files in /usr/local/X11/... and tell it to use the modified files using 'xmkmf /usr/local/X11'. But it'd be conceptually easier to follow if you just installed the core release there first. The flaw in this seems to be that the core release wasn't intended to be installed in a separate location from all the non-core clients and other data. |From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> |Is what I would like is to change XAPPLRESDIR from specifying a |single directory to being a path (perhaps even rename it to |XAPPLRESPATH). ... |XAPPLRESPATH=~/X11/app-defaults:/usr/local/lib/X11/app-defaults:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults Yea, changing the libraries to use a path still seems like a good idea. Is there anything in particular besides the XAPPLRESDIR that needs similar treatment? Rich
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