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Date:      Fri, 14 Sep 2007 17:17:11 +0100
From:      Florent Thoumie <flz@xbsd.org>
To:        Christoph Moench-Tegeder <cmt@burggraben.net>
Cc:        freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Xorg 7.3 xdm reads worng configuration files
Message-ID:  <46EAB407.3050307@xbsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070914145836.GA35940@elch.haidundneu23.net>
References:  <20070914145836.GA35940@elch.haidundneu23.net>

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Christoph Moench-Tegeder wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> after upgrading Xorg to version 7.3 xdm failed to start. A short truss
> revealed that xdm reads its config files in /usr/local/share/examples/xdm/
> instead of (as expected and done in 7.2) /usr/local/lib/X11/xdm/.
> Obviously, x11/xdm/Makefile adds "--with-xdmconfigdir=${EXAMPLESDIR}
> --with-xdmscriptdir=${EXAMPLESDIR}" to CONFIGURE_ARGS, which does not
> only control the location of the included examples but also the paths
> where xdm looks for its configuration.
> I guess this was missed in testing because in these days nobody changes
> his xdm config :)

Won't have much time to fix it today, expect a fix tomorrow.

Thanks for the report.

-- 
Florent Thoumie
flz@FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD Committer



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