From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Mar 19 09:14:54 1995 Return-Path: ports-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id JAA13792 for ports-outgoing; Sun, 19 Mar 1995 09:14:54 -0800 Received: from grunt.grondar.za (grunt.grondar.za [196.7.18.129]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id JAA13785; Sun, 19 Mar 1995 09:14:37 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grunt.grondar.za (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id TAA16121; Sun, 19 Mar 1995 19:14:22 +0200 Message-Id: <199503191714.TAA16121@grunt.grondar.za> X-Authentication-Warning: grunt.grondar.za: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: "Rodney W. Grimes" , mark@grondar.za (Mark Murray), ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Gripe of the week (tm) :-) Date: Sun, 19 Mar 1995 19:14:22 +0200 From: Mark Murray Sender: ports-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > It's unfortunate that the way things are set up in XFree86 by default > now don't really allow you to install Joe Application in such a way > that it will work for all users out-of-the-box without sometimes > touching /usr/X11R6. You need to install stuff into /usr/X11R6/lib > just to get it found by the Xt libraries. I wish there was some analog > in /usr/local that we could get searched for all subsequent releases of > XFree86, but it's not that way now so I figured "oh well!" and thought > we'd just settle for treating all the X11 stuff as a blob. OK, I have got the O'Reilly books on X Admin (volume 8 for R5 and the extra book for R6 both with CD's :-) ), so I'll go and research this angle. Xt being a problem hadn't occurred to me, but just bunging the binaries into /usr/X11R6 still feels too much like a hurried kluge to me rather than a fix. Any pointers you can give me about Xt will be most welcome (Right now, I haven't even looked at one single man page, so I have NO idea what I'm in for) M -- Mark Murray 46 Harvey Rd, Claremont, Cape Town 7700, South Africa +27 21 61-3768 GMT+0200