Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 11:02:57 -0800 From: "Gregory W. MacPherson" <greg@datasieve.net> To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: X11/Xorg library dependencies Message-ID: <20080208190257.GC4631@b2.datasieve.net>
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I just finished spending much more time than I would like to building out various library and toolkit components to get Xorg working on my FreeBSD 6.3 STABLE box. Apparently the dependency tree looks something like this: libICE libSM libXt libXext libXpm libXmu Where each library requires the ones list before it in the list. It would be nice if the owners of these various ports would update their Makefiles and Configuration scripts to check for the existence of the other ports and (gasp) actually build the missing dependencies). While some ports fail with suggestive messages, I long for the days when port maintainers understood the dependencies (rather than assuming them because they have always been on the developers' systems). -- Greg -- Gregory W. MacPherson Global Network Exploitation Specialist, CISSP http://www.datasieve.net/greg/
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