On September 21, 2010, at 6:02 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote:

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> On 9/21/10 11:55 AM, Silvano Simula wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> the problem with the installation of the package grace under MacOSX 10.6.4 
>> with XQuartz 2.5.3 can be circumvented by making a symbolic link of the 
>> library libX11.6.dylib installed by X11 of Apple in /usr/X11/lib to the one 
>> installed by XQuartz 2.5.3 in /opt/X11/lib.
>> 
> 
> And what exactly is "the problem"?  Grace works fine for me on 10.6.4
> with Apple's X11.
> 

Apple's libX11.6.dylib is version 9.0.0, while xmgrace calls a a library in 
/sw/lib (libXm4.dylib if I remember correctly) which uses libX11.6.dylib but 
requires version 10.0.0.

The same with nedit and libfreetype.6.dylib; there is a mismatch of versions.

> Making symlinks in the system area is a bad idea.
> 
> 
>> A similar problem occurs with the package nedit with the library 
>> libfreetype.6.dylib installed by Apple in /usr/X11/lib. The proper one is 
>> installed by XQuartz in /opt/X11/lib.
>> 
>> Thus, how to tell Fink to use X11 under XQuartz (/opt/X11) instead of X11 of 
>> Apple (/usr/X11) ?
>> 
>> Silvano
>> 
> 
> You don't.
> 
> We don't support XQuartz on 10.6.4.  Our packages are _supposed_ to
> build one way, and one way only, and we've chosen to use Apple's X11 for
> that.
> - -- 
> Alexander Hansen
> Fink User Liaison
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