Moving X11 install into their own subdirectory

Blair Zajac blair at orcaware.com
Tue Mar 17 10:40:27 PDT 2009


Michael,

I install xemacs which uses Xaw3d which uses xorg-libice.

Regards,
Blair

Michael Franz wrote:
> Blair,
> 
> What port did you installed that required xorg-libice?
> 
> Michael
> 
> On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 8:37 PM, Blair Zajac <blair at orcaware.com 
> <mailto:blair at orcaware.com>> 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.
> 
>     Comments?
> 
>     Regards,
>     Blair
> 


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