On Fri, Feb 8, 2008 at 7:02 PM, Gregory W. MacPherson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just finished spending much more time than I would like to building > out various library and toolkit components to get Xorg working on my > FreeBSD 6.3 STABLE box. Apparently the dependency tree looks something > like this: > > libICE > libSM > libXt > libXext > libXpm > libXmu > > Where each library requires the ones list before it in the list. > > It would be nice if the owners of these various ports would update their > Makefiles and Configuration scripts to check for the existence of the > other ports and (gasp) actually build the missing dependencies). While > some ports fail with suggestive messages, I long for the days when port > maintainers understood the dependencies (rather than assuming them > because they have always been on the developers' systems).
You're lucky you got an answer. Next time change the tone of your email, kthxbye. -- Florent Thoumie [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD Committer _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
