Date: 25 Oct 2002 10:45:44 -0700 From: Eric Anholt <eta@lclark.edu> To: "Brandon D. Valentine" <bandix@geekpunk.net> Cc: Paul Schenkeveld <fb-hackers@psconsult.nl>, FreeBSD Hackers List <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: X11 display problem Message-ID: <1035567946.897.9.camel@anholt.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20021025120447.M277-100000@taran.dhcp.mc.vanderbilt.edu> References: <20021025120447.M277-100000@taran.dhcp.mc.vanderbilt.edu>
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On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 10:07, Brandon D. Valentine wrote: > On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Paul Schenkeveld wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 11:57:59AM -0500, Brandon D. Valentine wrote: > > > > > > I'm not near my FreeBSD machines at this moment but this weekend I'll > > > hack up the necessary patch if nobody else bothers. Probably better to > > > call it something less ambigious like X11_LISTEN_TCP or similar so those > > > who want to put it in make.conf don't incur namespace ambiguity and > > > possible collision with other ports that might use similar make > > > variables with different semantic meaning. WITH_TCP doesn't have the > > > same sort of global meaning that WITH_GNOME does. > > > > May I suggest WITH_STARTX_TCP ? > > > > My $0.02 > > If I have any input it'll be WITH_X11_TCP or X11_LISTEN_TCP or similar. > If the upstream xdm is fixed to turn off listen_tcp by default we'll > want one flag to turn the behavior back on for both xdm and startx so > naming the make variable startx would only serve to obscure it from xdm > users (myself included). WITH_TCP_(LISTEN_)DEFAULT? It's not exactly a compile-time option like most WITH_BLAH. However, this plus a message at the start of the build and maybe a pkg-message note makes me much more comfortable with the startx/xdm changes. I may get to it this weekend. Complete patches submitted will get it done sooner :) -- Eric Anholt <eta@lclark.edu> http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/dri/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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