On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:

> Bruce Evans wrote:
> > 
> > But it doesn't depend on X11.  It ifdefs some X11 files and only builds
> > the X11 version if X11 seems to be present.
> 
> X11 can be present, but it won't necessarily be a usable X11. A i386
> cross-build on Alpha will use an alpha X11 to build an i386 doscmd.
> That's wrong.

An X11 for a different arch shouldn't count as being present.

> > It uses wrong ifdefs for the X11 files :-).  It should never find any X11
> > files for building worlds, since there are no X11 includes or libraries
> > under ${WORLDTMP}.  Adding some ${DESTDIR}'s is probably a sufficient fix.
> 
> Ok, but this means that we won't install doscmd with X11 support
> anymore. The user has to rebuild doscmd itself to have X11 support. In

This is nothing new, I hope.  The release build environment shouldn't be
polluted with X11, so releases should only have non-X11 doscmds.

> that case, it's better to have it in the ports collection...

I think it's too system-dependent to work well as a port.  You would need
2 ports, one with X11 support and one without.

Bruce



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