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Date:      Tue, 16 Oct 2001 17:04:15 +0300
From:      Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Mikhail Teterin <mi@corbulon.video-collage.com>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.org, jseger@FreeBSD.org, torstenb@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: xpm WITHOUT_X11
Message-ID:  <3BCC3E5F.3B15F6B3@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <200110132251.f9DMpxt44264@corbulon.video-collage.com>

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Mikhail Teterin wrote:

> Hello!
>
> I'm about to commit the following  patch to graphics/xpm. It is intended
> to allow to build the (limited) version of libXpm on X11-less machines.

Where it is necessary? I certainly don't like change for the sake of change. Also please don't
mix varuables declaration with rules in Makefile, particularly move INSTALLS_SHLIB upwards and
insert a blank line between MAN1 and post-install: target.

-Maxim

> It deliberately uses X11BASE  as a prefix in either case  -- not sure if
> this is a good idea, I did this to help other things link with it.
>
> sxpm is not built without X11 -- there are uses for it in X11-less case,
> but too much needs to be ripped out. Perhaps, it can be done later.
>
> It installs my home-cooked xpm-nox.h next to the standard xpm.h. All one
> needs to  compile and  link xpm  clients without  X11 is  define XPM_NOX
> prior  to including  xpm.h. In  particular graphics/gd  can be  built to
> generate xpm-images without requiring X11.
>
> Rather than patching the long-forsaken Makefile.noX, home cooked bsd.*.*
> based Makefiles are used.
>
> Unless there are loud objections, I'll  commit it some time next week --
> the poor thing has no maintainer :)
>
> Thanks!




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