Date: Thu, 28 Dec 1995 00:13:40 +0000 (GMT) From: Paul Richards <paul@netcraft.co.uk> To: rich@lamprey.utmb.edu Cc: paul@netcraft.co.uk, p.richards@elsevier.co.uk, asami@cs.berkeley.edu, jkh@time.cdrom.com, andreas@knobel.gun.de, graichen@omega.physik.fu-berlin.de, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pcnfsd.. Message-ID: <199512280013.AAA05031@server.netcraft.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <199512280007.SAA09660@rmurphy.slip.bcm.tmc.edu> from "Rich Murphey" at Dec 27, 95 06:07:33 pm
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In reply to Rich Murphey who said > > Do you want the clients to read another configuration file that will > specify the default location of all other configuration files on local > filesystems? This would add the overhead of opening the extra > configuration file and you'd be faced with a similar issue of chosing > a location for the runtime determination of that path. > > Or do you want to have the clients search > /usr/local/lib/X11/app-defaults first before looking in > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults? Or do you have another scheme in > mind? Rich > 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. -- Paul Richards, Netcraft Ltd. Internet: paul@netcraft.co.uk, http://www.netcraft.co.uk Phone: 0370 462071 (Mobile), +44 1225 447500 (work)
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