Moving X11 install into their own subdirectory
Jeremy Huddleston
jeremyhu at macports.org
Fri Mar 13 18:27:48 PDT 2009
On Mar 13, 2009, at 17:37, Blair Zajac wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I haven't followed closely the work on getting X11 into the
> MacPorts, but I was installing some new ports today and the xorg-
> libice port conflicts with an existing port, ice-cpp, on the
> libIce.dylib. Unfortunately, they have different capitalization,
> ice-cpp has libIce.dylib and xorg-libice has libICE.dylib.
>
> Given precedence of an existing port and following the Linux
> standard, it seems moving the xorg-* ports into $prefix/X11 or
> $prefix/X11R6 would be a good thing to do.
1) Use a case sensitive FS.
2) The Linux "standard" is actually placing these libs in ${prefix}.
I don't think many distros keep around /usr/X11 anymore unless it's a
symlink to /usr...
As far as this problem goes... yes, it's a problem. No, I don't have
a better solution that (1) above.
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