[MacPorts] #17008: gtk2 port incorrectly advises users to make a symlink

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Tue Oct 28 12:39:46 PDT 2008


#17008: gtk2 port incorrectly advises users to make a symlink
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  Reporter:  jeremyhu at freedesktop.org  |       Owner:  nox at macports.org
      Type:  defect                    |      Status:  new             
  Priority:  Normal                    |   Milestone:  Port Bugs       
 Component:  ports                     |     Version:  1.6.0           
Resolution:                            |    Keywords:                  
      Port:  gtk2                      |  
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Comment(by mcalhoun at macports.org):

 All I have to go on is the documentation
 (http://trac.macports.org/wiki/FAQ#WhyisMacPortsusingitsownlibraries), but
 the rule seems to be:[[BR]]
 use MacPorts libraries unless there is a good reason not to.[[BR]]
 An exempt port might be, e.g., Kerberos (#14775).

 X11 seems to be somewhere in the middle.[[BR]]
 Of the ports which depend on xrender, only two (gtk2 and teg) use
 'lib:libXrender:xrender'. [[BR]]
 The rest use 'port:xrender'.

 As for the lack of xmkmf, I ran into the same problem when I tried to
 install Xaw3d.[[BR]]
 I wrote an imake package, but I have not submitted it yet.

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