It looks like folks want to keep searching for X11 in /usr/X11R6 even though
that has been out of vogue since 10.5. Fine. I’ve made /usr/X11R6 mandatory
for a “working” X11 installation in a github branch. It previously had been set
up for /usr/X11 to be mandatory. (Current fink-0.38.4 behavior is that
/usr/X11 is mandatory on 10.7, and /opt/X11 is mandatory on 10.8+):
Roll back allowing just /opt/X11 as sufficient for system-xfree86*.
<https://github.com/fink/fink/pull/118>
an IRC transcript follows detailing the ramifications:
akh <member:akh>: Since that’s VirtPackage.pm, there will be NO MESSAGE for
users other than “Cannot find dependency x11-dev” from the dependency engine.
[08:37am] akh <member:akh>: If we’re absolutely sure that we’re never going to
do up our own X11 packages, the X11 virtuals could be tweaked to show up as
available but not installed when X11 is missing rather than the current
behavior of not showing up at all.
Basically we’ll be going back to the previous behavior, but applied more
consistently (previously some elements wanted /usr/X11, some wanted /usr/X11R6).
--
Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
Fink User Liaison
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