On Sun, 22 Dec 2002, Kow K wrote:

> First off, XFree86 binary installer you get from XonX project and one 
> from Fink are different, and Fink has no control over X11 packages 
> installed by XonX installer.

...this is true, although there is no practical difference between Fink's 
xfree86-rootless and XonX (the Fink -threaded version is slightly 
different, however, but it's only a runtime difference, as far as I 
understand it).

> You don't need to install "system-xfree86" package as far as you've 
> installed X manually. Doesn't the description of "system-xfree86" say 
> that it's a virtul package? This means that you CAN'T install it from 
> Fink.

This, however, is rather unclear.  You *do* install "system-xfree86" from 
Fink, it is a placeholder so that Fink knows that you've installed X by 
other means (in this case, by running the Xinstall.sh for 4.2.0, and then 
upgrading with the XonX packages).

It sounds like Emmanuel did the right thing, but somehow things ended up 
missing.  Emmanuel, the thing that is missing Xlib.h is not the 
system-xfree86 package, per se, but the binary installers you ran.  I 
would suggest either deleting the X stuff (by removing 
/Applications/XDarwin.app, /etc/X11, and /usr/X11R6) and starting over 
with the XonX installer, or by installing one of the Fink packages Kow 
mentioned below:

> xfree86-base (or xfree86-base-threaded)
> xfree86-shlibs (or xfree86-shlibs-threaded)
> 
> xfree86-rootless (or xfree86-rootless-threaded)
> xfree86-rootless-shlibs (or xfree86-rootless-shlibs-threade)

...

> Additinally, why did you use Xinstall.sh? Did you do it manually from 
> Terminal?? Instead of launching XFree86 installer application from 
> Finder?

I know Torrey Lyons watches this list for X questions every once in a 
while.  Torrey, any ideas why the installer on the XFree86 FTP is 
out-of-date?  We've seen this trip people up a couple of times...



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