Anyone running X11 apps on Mojave?

[Russell Jones]

On 01/12/2018 15:05, Christopher Jones wrote:
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>> On 26 Nov 2018, at 9:36 am, Dr M J Carter <Martin.Carter at physics.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
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>> On Sat, Nov 24, 2018 at 11:58:16AM +0000, Christopher Jones wrote:
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>>> Note that the version of Xquartz from [2]www.xquartz.com is in fact
>>> just a packaging of the MacPorts version ! In fact, the maintainer
>>> of the Xquartz releases has stated that they may well no longer make
>>> releases there, and only maintain the MacPorts provided version (via
>>> the xorg-server port) going forward.
>> That's going to prove interesting for those of us using MacTeX: its
>> copy of gs-X11 seems to request and require libraries in /opt/X11 at
>> runtime, not just at setup.  (In our setups, /usr/local/bin comes
>> before /opt/local/bin, for reasons I can be tedious about on request,
>> so MacTeX's gs preempts MacPorts's.)
> well, the easy solution is to use macPorts provided TexLive ports.. These are built against MacPorts X11 dependencies….
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Except where they're in TeXLive and not in MacPorts, or not on the 
MacPorts build server and take a while to build.

Russell