> On 3 Dec 2018, at 9:59 am, Russell Jones <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>
>> On 01/12/2018 15:05, Christopher Jones wrote:
>>
>>> On 26 Nov 2018, at 9:36 am, Dr M J Carter <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sat, Nov 24, 2018 at 11:58:16AM +0000, Christopher Jones wrote:
>>>
>>>> Note that the version of Xquartz from [2]www.xquartz.com is in fact
>>>> just a packaging of the MacPorts version ! In fact, the maintainer
>>>> of the Xquartz releases has stated that they may well no longer make
>>>> releases there, and only maintain the MacPorts provided version (via
>>>> the xorg-server port) going forward.
>>> That's going to prove interesting for those of us using MacTeX: its
>>> copy of gs-X11 seems to request and require libraries in /opt/X11 at
>>> runtime, not just at setup. (In our setups, /usr/local/bin comes
>>> before /opt/local/bin, for reasons I can be tedious about on request,
>>> so MacTeX's gs preempts MacPorts's.)
>> well, the easy solution is to use macPorts provided TexLive ports.. These
>> are built against MacPorts X11 dependencies….
>>
>>
> Except where they're in TeXLive and not in MacPorts, or not on the MacPorts
> build server and take a while to build.
If macports is indeed missing something, Github PRs are always welcome to add
it.
The build time not relevant to the point I was making, which is simply macports
provides a texlive installation, that works against the MP x11 server, that I
am sure provides everything the majority of users need. If you want this taking
a little time to build it should not be a concern.
>
> Russell
>
