Guy: As one of the development team I can positively state that Fink is required to build for the Mac platform. I don't know about the quality of Xfree from them, as I have installed X11 from Apple. The alternative is to use Darwinports and I don't know if they have upgraded for Tiger. The problems you might encounter are if functions were deleted from XFree 4.5 that were there in either 4.4 or 4.3.
James McKenzie -----Original Message----- >From: Guy Voets <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Jan 15, 2007 4:40 PM >To: [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [users] finding x11 > >2007/1/15, James Mckenzie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> Guy: >> >> I did not think of this option. The XFree package is not directly >> available from >> the foundation's web page for the Mac, however, Fink (a porting project to >> bring programs >> from the UNIX world to the Mac world) does have an XFree package >> available. >> >> To user Fink you first have to install the Fink basic package and then >> install other >> packages using it. I will warn, however, that there are dependencies to >> the XFree >> package from what I remember and it may take a long time to >> install. Apple makes >> it easier by combining all that is needed into one very neat package. >> >> James McKenzie > > > >Hello James > >I admit I haven't tried out to download from XFree86. Just thought about the >possibility because OP hasn't got his Mac OSX Installation disks - and I >don't think the X11 update to version 1.1.3 works when you haven't got an >older version on your computer. Don't know about Fink... > > > >-- >Guy >using dutch OOo 2.1 RC 2 on a iMac Intel DualCore Tiger >and dutch OOo 2.1 RC 1 on a G4 PPC Powerbook Tiger >-- please reply only to [email protected] -- >Dodoes can't afford to have headaches --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
