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Date:      Tue, 15 Oct 1996 22:38:56 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Rich Murphey <rich@rich.isdn.bcm.tmc.edu>
To:        chuckr@glue.umd.edu
Cc:        asami@FreeBSD.org, torstenb@FreeBSD.org, ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: xpm static library
Message-ID:  <199610160338.WAA25404@richc.isdn.bcm.tmc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.95.961015225609.8007B-100000@modem.eng.umd.edu> (message from Chuck Robey on Tue, 15 Oct 1996 23:00:04 -0400 (EDT))

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|Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 23:00:04 -0400 (EDT)
|From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>
|cc: torstenb@FreeBSD.org, rich@FreeBSD.org, ports@FreeBSD.org
|
|On Tue, 15 Oct 1996, Satoshi Asami wrote:
|
|> Remember I complained a while back that the xpm port didn't build
|> static the static library anymore?  I found out that it's because
|> config/bsdLib.rules in XFree86-3.1.2 betas don't define ForceNormalLib 
|> to YES anymore.
|> 
|> Rich, is this going to be a permanent change?  If so, we need to
|> adjust the ports accordingly.
|
|Just let me jump in here a moment.  All that stuff is controlled by
|FreeBSD.cf, which we really ought to get some chance to tweak, you know.
|Before it becomes a regular part of a distribution is the right time to
|consider it.
|
|One possibility is to ask that a site.def file be sited in OUR
|/usr/share/mk directory, so we could get our own meathooks on part of the
|config.

Yep, FreeBSD.cf would be the ideal place to '#define
ForceNormalLib YES' specificly for FreeBSD.  Would that
fix it?  Rich



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