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It doesn't actually work on on a 10.5 setup which doesn't have a
/usr/X11/bin/xmkmf, either. That's the normal state of X11s that were
installed after OS 10.5.2 or so. People who started at 10.5.0 may still
have it, since Software Update doesn't remove it, nor does the X11
installer from macosforge.org, so maintainers often miss that.
A lot of packages check for xmkmf in the PATH as their X11 detection
system. Some of them are nice enough to provide alternate configure
parameters to get around that, so we can add :
--x-libraries=/usr/X11R6/lib --x-includes=/usr/X11R6/include
to the ConfigureParams (arguments to the configure script).
Some packages, however, don't do that, and we have options to get around
this lack, via our own xmkmf package and passing an environment variable
or even setting the PATH appropriately.
Basically, file a report for each individual package that you want which
is having this problem and we'll come up with a fix.
- --
Alexander Hansen
Fink User Liaison
Jan Haag wrote:
> Well... It basically shows up in configure saying
>
> checking for X... no
>
> That holds true for any package that checks for it... I only found it
> in trying to install
> libxfce4mcs3-4.2.3-1003, but other packages seem to have the same
> problem.
> I'm not too good when it comes to shell scripting, but to me it looks
> like the problem is
> in the configure script... X11 itself seems to be fine, as Gimp.app
> works.
> Actually, a small app that uses the X11 libs for debugging GUI apps
> just built fine, but it
> doesn't have a configure script... (It is called xdotool, if that
> matters -- just something I found
> in an old backup for a test...)
> The only idea I have on why this might happen is that some kind of
> environment variable
> is unset in snowleo, which used to be set in older OS X versions...
>
> That's about it -- I can't think of anything else that could be of any
> help at all...
>
> Jan
>
> On Sep 10, 2009, at 6:30 PM, Martin Costabel wrote:
>
>> Jan Haag wrote:
>>> Hi list,
>>> I'm not sure wether or not this is the right place to ask, but on
>>> my newly installed Mac OS X 10.6
>>> it looks like any package depending on X11 doesn't find it... As
>>> far as I understood the workflow
>>> of the autoconf-script, the headers should be found, but the
>>> libraries not...
>>> The fink system-xfree86 package, including the -dev and -shlibs
>>> parts, is installed.
>>> Though it's most likely something simple I missed, I don't really
>>> have any idea on how to fix it...
>>> Any help would be highly appreciated.
>> Could you give the output of a concrete example for what you mean?
>>
>> --
>> Martin
>>
>>
>>
>>
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