XFree86

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jan 9, 2007, at 20:13, Mark Hattam wrote:

> At 02:02 +0000 10/1/07, Mark Hattam wrote:
>
>> Just doing an upgrade of my outdated ports as shown below ...  
>> What's the deal with XFree86? I've never seen that being installed  
>> before for any of these ports. Note it also fails to even find it  
>> from loads of locations. Then after about 3 hours of building ...  
>> it failed to activate citing a /usr/X11R6/... path - I though  
>> MacPorts used /opt/local/....
>>
>> So what's going on? What do I need XFree86 for in any of these ports?
>>
>> Mark Hattam
>>
>> --
>>
>> $ sudo port outdated
>> The following installed ports are outdated:
>> apache2                        2.2.3_0 < 2.2.3_2
>> apr                            1.2.7_0 < 1.2.8_0
>> apr-util                       1.2.7_1 < 1.2.8_1
>> gettext                        0.15_0 < 0.16.1_0
>> ImageMagick                    6.3.0-3_0 < 6.3.1-4_0
>> mysql4                         4.1.20_0 < 4.1.22_0
>> neon                           0.26.2_0 < 0.26.2_1
>> pcre                           6.7_0 < 7.0_0
>
> And I see from the http://www.xfree86.org website, version 4.6 has  
> been the current release since May 2006. So which port is asking  
> for version 4.5?


X11 always goes in /usr/X11R6. It's a peculiarity of X11.

"port info ImageMagick" will show you that it depends on XFree86.  
You'll also see a "+nox11" variant you can use if you don't want  
ImageMagick to link to the X11 system.

If you type "port info XFree86" you will see that it is at version  
4.5.0.

Instead of building XFree86 using MacPorts, I recommend you install  
Apple's X11 package. You'd need to install both the X11User.pkg,  
which is part of Mac OS X, and the X11SDK.pkg, which is part of Xcode.