Force Macports to use XQuartz as X11 dependency

[Bradley Giesbrecht]

On Aug 30, 2010, at 12:27 PM, Jeff Singleton wrote:

> So there is no way to avoid building the truckload of X dependencies
> needed for a single application...followed by cleaning up all of those
> dependencies because I only needed them to build one thing.

Yes, create your own Portfile or modify the MacPorts provided one.

> To me .. that just doesn't sound like consistent support for older
> machines ... it sounds lazy.

So the MacPorts volunteers are lazy. I see. Not to be mean but maybe  
you could do something about it.

> Why should people with faster machines have to continually suffer lost
> time in building dependencies that are only needed temporarily or
> could be provided by the XQuartz package?  I can understand building
> dependencies that are not included in the XQuartz package, but
> building all of them just because its more compatible with older
> hardware that I will never use...
>
> Just doesn't make sense to me ... If I had a dual quad-core 32gig Mac
> Pro, I probably wouldn't care.

There are tradeoffs. Supporting the use of XQuartz would add to the  
overall support burden. You can always modify the Portfile to your  
liking.

http://trac.macports.org/wiki/FAQ#ownlibs

http://trac.macports.org/wiki/FAQ#whynotxyz

// Brad

> On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Jeremy Huddleston
> <jeremyhu at macports.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Aug 30, 2010, at 10:43, Jeff Singleton wrote:
>>
>>> Ok .. So what if I opted to not install the system X11 and then
>>> installed XQuartz from MacOSForge via DMG.  Could I just make some  
>>> Env
>>> Variables to point Libs/Includes/Path for X11 to /opt/X11?
>>
>> As mentioned, in the link below, MacPorts will use its own copies  
>> of libraries where available.  This is not just limited to X11 and  
>> includes other libraries like libcurl, ncurses, bzip2, zlip, ...
>>
>> You are free to use whatever X11 server you want (meaning / 
>> Applications/Utilities/XQuartz.app or /Applications/MacPorts/X11.app)
>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Brandon S Allbery KF8NH
>>> <allbery at kf8nh.com> wrote:
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>>>> On 8/30/10 08:30 , Jeff Singleton wrote:
>>>>> I hope this can be just a quick one ...
>>>>>
>>>>> Can Macports be forced to used the XQuartz release installed by  
>>>>> DMG,
>>>>> instead of painfully going through the build process of every  
>>>>> single X
>>>>> dependency?
>>>>
>>>> It's a quick one, but not the way you hope.
>>>> http://trac.macports.org/wiki/FAQ#x11-libs
>>>>
>>>> - --
>>>> brandon s. allbery     [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl]      allbery at kf8nh.com
>>>> system administrator  [openafs,heimdal,too many hats]  allbery at ece.cmu.edu
>>>> electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon  
>>>> university      KF8NH
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