Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 12:28:15 +0300 From: Yuri Pankov <yuri.pankov@gmail.com> To: "FaL .etc" <fal.etc@gmail.com> Cc: "freebsd-x11@freebsd.org" <freebsd-x11@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Xorg 7.3 xdm reads worng configuration files Message-ID: <20080212092815.GA65716@thanatos.abyss> In-Reply-To: <fe36e2680802112153s3c8a91f8rffa755e31f5aca4b@mail.gmail.com> References: <fe36e2680802112153s3c8a91f8rffa755e31f5aca4b@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 11:53:10AM +0600, FaL .etc wrote: > Hello, I have problem with xdm and found out this message: > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-x11/2007-September/005169.html > > 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 :) Regards > Christoph -- Spare Space > > I had a look in x11/xdm/Makefile and found out that the argument > ${EXAMPLESDIR} has not fixed yet. Please tell me how to fix this error to > make xdm work normally. > > Tran Chi Thien. Uses configuration in /usr/local/lib/X11/xdm here, with xdm-1.1.6_3. Please check that you are using latest version of the port. And while it's true that Makefile passes ${EXAMPLEDIR} to configure for xdmconfigdir and xdmscriptdir, ${REINPLACE_CMD} in post-patch and post-configure seems to be doing its work :-) Yuri
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