Problems installing denemo

[Yves de Champlain]

Le 07-05-03 à 05:48, Ryan Schmidt a écrit :

> On May 2, 2007, at 10:45, Yves de Champlain wrote:
>
>> Le 07-05-02 à 03:18, Ryan Schmidt a écrit :
>>
>>> On May 2, 2007, at 01:49, Hubert Spall - Tamarin Design Ltd. wrote:
>>>
>>>> Yves, I did have X11 installed by macports as a dependency now I  
>>>> come to think of it, and there was even a message regarding that  
>>>> and the apple installed X11, which I didn't have time to read in  
>>>> the output (at that point I didn't know it would be significant,  
>>>> and at some point I cleared the scrollback) - but that seems to  
>>>> suggest that the macports install doesn't work automatically  
>>>> even if you don't have the apple version installed - perhaps  
>>>> that was what the message was about - if so, sorry for involving  
>>>> the list, looks like I should have been able to work that bit  
>>>> out on my own.
>>>
>>> The usual behavior is for MacPorts to use Apple's X11 if you have  
>>> installed both X11User.pkg and X11SDK.pkg, and otherwise to  
>>> install XFree86. You can only install and use one of Apple's X11  
>>> or XFree86 at a time. I recommend you use only Apple's X11.
>>
>> The message indicates that you had X11SDK installed but not  
>> X11.app (client / server).
>>
>> However, I would not recommend to use only Apple's X11 because I  
>> spent a lot of time make XFree86 4.6.0 available ;-)
>
> What would be the advantage of using XFree86 4.6.0 vs. Apple's X11?

All I really know is that Apple's is XFree86 4.4.0.  My guess is that  
these two releases (4.5 and 5.6) are mostly positive stuff.  XFree86  
has been opted out mainly because the build has been broken for many  
months.  It's just not the case anymore.  Of course, it is longer to  
install ...

yves