On Dec 9, 2007, at 1:42 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: > Ben Abbott wrote: >> On Dec 8, 2007, at 7:34 PM, James Rome wrote: >>> I upgraded to Leopard, and most of the fink packages require >>> Xfree86. >>> But Leopard has X11 installed. So how do I get anything to compile? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Jim Rome >>> >> Jim, >> Do you have "system-xfree86" installed? >> I've had no problem with Leopard and Fink since I began using it a >> week ago. However, I had the placeholder package for x11 (system- >> xfree86) installed under Tiger. It remains installed now. If you >> don't have it, perhaps all you need to do is "fink install system- >> xfree86"? > > Not quite. The system-xfree86* packages are, just like xfree86- > base*, x11 and x11-dev, virtual packages. This means they show up as > installed as soon as you have the corresponding files installed on > your system, either by installing Apple's X11 or from some other X11 > installation. > > Run "fink info system-xfree86" for some explanation. Or indeed try > "fink install system-xfree86"; it will either say it is already > installed, or it will explain that it cannot be installed like this. > > So the only thing you have to do is to make sure that you have both > of Apple's x11 componenents installed, the X11User.pkg that gets > installed by default on Leopard, and the X11SDK package that gets > installed with the Xcode developer tools. >
Martin, Do both "Apple's x11 components" *and* the X11User.pkg get installed by default on Leopard? Or just the latter? Ben ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners
