On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 6:48 PM, Greg Earle <[email protected]> wrote:
> Does anyone use MacPorts for X11 stuff? I would prefer to use > MacPorts, but it looks to me like if I install the "openmotif" > port ,it sucks in all sorts of other dependent X11 ports and to > be honest given that Apple has "blessed" XQuartz 2.7.4 I would > prefer to be compiling/linking against the XQuartz stuff instead. > You cannot; see http://trac.macports.org/wiki/FAQ#ownlibs. That said, the X11 in MacPorts *is* XQuartz; it is updated by the same maintainer and kept in sync. But if you're building something for distribution (other than as a port), you should probably move MacPorts (or Fink or Homebrew, etc.) out of the way while doing it. Same applies to any other distribution on any other OS, really; for example, unless you actually intend there to be such dependencies, you should not build software for distribution on a Linux machine which has EPEL, Rawhide, Debian testing/unstable, AUR/PPAs etc. installed. Build for the lowest common denominator and avoid add-ins if you intend distribution, and only carefully include add-ins if you absolutely require them (and, if possible, build them yourself and bundle them instead). -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates [email protected] [email protected] unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
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