From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Oct 15 20:39:10 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA03262 for ports-outgoing; Tue, 15 Oct 1996 20:39:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rich.isdn.bcm.tmc.edu (root@RICH.ISDN.BCM.TMC.EDU [128.249.250.34]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA03250; Tue, 15 Oct 1996 20:39:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from richc.isdn.bcm.tmc.edu (root@richc.isdn.bcm.tmc.edu [128.249.250.37]) by rich.isdn.bcm.tmc.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with ESMTP id WAA11739; Tue, 15 Oct 1996 22:38:57 -0500 (CDT) Received: (rich@localhost) by richc.isdn.bcm.tmc.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) id WAA25404; Tue, 15 Oct 1996 22:38:56 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 22:38:56 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199610160338.WAA25404@richc.isdn.bcm.tmc.edu> From: Rich Murphey To: chuckr@glue.umd.edu CC: asami@FreeBSD.org, torstenb@FreeBSD.org, ports@FreeBSD.org In-reply-to: (message from Chuck Robey on Tue, 15 Oct 1996 23:00:04 -0400 (EDT)) Subject: Re: xpm static library Reply-to: rich@rich.isdn.bcm.tmc.edu Sender: owner-ports@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk |Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 23:00:04 -0400 (EDT) |From: Chuck Robey |cc: torstenb@FreeBSD.org, rich@FreeBSD.org, ports@FreeBSD.org | |On Tue, 15 Oct 1996, Satoshi Asami wrote: | |> Remember I complained a while back that the xpm port didn't build |> static the static library anymore? I found out that it's because |> config/bsdLib.rules in XFree86-3.1.2 betas don't define ForceNormalLib |> to YES anymore. |> |> Rich, is this going to be a permanent change? If so, we need to |> adjust the ports accordingly. | |Just let me jump in here a moment. All that stuff is controlled by |FreeBSD.cf, which we really ought to get some chance to tweak, you know. |Before it becomes a regular part of a distribution is the right time to |consider it. | |One possibility is to ask that a site.def file be sited in OUR |/usr/share/mk directory, so we could get our own meathooks on part of the |config. Yep, FreeBSD.cf would be the ideal place to '#define ForceNormalLib YES' specificly for FreeBSD. Would that fix it? Rich