From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Sep 18 10:19:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from hex.databits.net (hex.databits.net [207.29.192.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EBB0137B40A for ; Tue, 18 Sep 2001 10:19:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 84258 invoked by uid 1001); 18 Sep 2001 17:19:14 -0000 Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 13:19:14 -0400 From: Pete Fritchman To: j mckitrick Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why does installing X require the compat3x and compat4x dists Message-ID: <20010918131914.B81290@databits.net> References: <20010918012828.A98117@dragon.nuxi.com> <008301c1405d$0aa33990$38934dc7@cnd.gatech.edu> <20010918173514.B51703@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <006001c14061$b7050750$38934dc7@cnd.gatech.edu> <20010918175227.A51997@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010918175227.A51997@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>; from jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org on Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 05:52:28PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ++ 18/09/01 17:52 +0100 - j mckitrick: | On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 12:48:16PM -0400, Jeff Lee wrote: | | When I installed linux-mandrake, it installed XFree86 4.0 and worked | | fine, but under FreeBSD it wouldn't work. | | Right now this is only an annoyance, but I wonder if there is anything that | could streamline building 4.x so it works and installs as smoothly as 3.x? | There has to be some issue (or handful of issues) that are making this much | more difficult than it needs to be. % cd /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4 && make install If you get errors, you should submit a PR. -pete -- Pete Fritchman [petef@(databits.net|freebsd.org|csh.rit.edu)] finger petef@databits.net for PGP key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message