James McKenzie wrote:
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> And hopefully Apple will incorporate a newer and better version of X11 
> with 10.5.7.

The macosforge/xquartz project is sponsored by Apple, so its results 
will eventually find their way into the "official" X11. The X11 
distributed with 10.5.6, for example, is based on an earlier version, 
2.2.0 or so, of macosforge/xquartz. Most of the problems we are seeing 
in building Fink packages with with X11 come from Apple's stupid idea of 
distributing a tiny part of X11 as a separate X11SDK.pkg. If they don't 
give up on this (and since this appears to be a political decision 
affecting several teams, it is not sure), they will be able to break 
even the most wunderful X11 distribution coming from macosforge/xquartz.

This kind of breakage is also something that regularly happens in minor 
system softwareupdates or, typically, in the last three weeks before a 
new system release after all the testing has been done (Looking forward 
to 10.6 ;-) .)

In addition, the latest problem we were discussing here, the absence of 
*.la files in /usr/X11/lib, is something macosforge/xquartz is heading 
to, too. Fink has to prepare for it in any case.

-- 
Martin



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