Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 12:32:37 +0100 From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> To: Chris Gilbert <Chris@lainos.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ATI on FreeBSD! FireGL Linux Driver Port Message-ID: <20051227123237.6e5542cd@Magellan.Leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <200512270449.41709.Chris@lainos.org> References: <200512270449.41709.Chris@lainos.org>
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On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 04:49:41 +0100 Chris Gilbert <Chris@lainos.org> wrote: > The driver as it stands does the following: I haven't looked at the port version of this, but I haven't seen any changes described regarding those entries in the announcement. > * Installs the applicable linux libraries, and ATI programs to your > linux_base. Depending on what those programs do, this is wrong. Generally: - libs have to go to LINUXBASE if they are "infrastructure" (usable by other ports) - programs have to go to X11BASE or LOCALBASE if they are enduser programs instead of "infrastructure" Some examples: - generic libs which are used by linux programs belong into LINUXBASE - the tools which come with e.g. libjpeg are installed into LINUXBASE (everyone would use the FreeBSD native ones and the linux ones belong into the "infrastructure" category) - the linux version of firefox or the Intel C/C++ compiler , will be started by the user of the system, so it belongs into X11BASE or LOCALBASE So I think the ATI libs belong into LINUXBASE and the ATI programs an user would use belongs into X11BASE (or maybe LOCALBASE, depending what they do). > * Installs the X11 drivers and libraries. (Linux builds, but work fine under > FreeBSD) As long as the drivers are self-contained (no references to glibc parts or other linux specific libs), this is behavior as designed. It's great to see someone working on this. Bye, Alexander (another ATI cards user). -- The dark ages were caused by the Y1K problem. http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net GPG fingerprint = C518 BC70 E67F 143F BE91 3365 79E2 9C60 B006 3FE7
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