Dear William, excellent! The patch you pointed me to works for me too. Thank you so much for your help, I am going to send an email to the port maintainers to see whether they can fix this in the ports tree.
very best giuseppe On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 6:43 PM, William Bulley <[email protected]> wrote: > According to Giuseppe Pagnoni <[email protected]> on Mon, 10/11/10 at 10:57: >> >> thank you very much for your reply, it does seem to be the same type >> of bug. However, and I apologize for being dense here, it is not >> immediate to me how to proceed practically to apply the patch from >> within the ports framework. Also, I still wonder why the patch hasn't >> been incorporated in the tree given that the bug is known.... > > I am not able to answer your final question - that is left to the ports > maintainers to address. > > I simply installed the latest (was it 1.7.5) xorg-server at that time > and added those half dozen patches. If 1.7.7 solved the problem, then > I'm not sure what issue(s) you have. If you want to have FreeBSD ports > upgraded, I would contact the port's maintainers directly. > > I chose not to install xorg-server 1.7.7 since I was unsure if there > were other dependencies or issues that might arise from doing so. I'm > not used to "patch"ing a mature, released port, so for me even that was > a leap of faith! :-) > > Just for clarity, I did not formally "patch" this port (xorg-server). > I went into the directory tree beneath the "work" directory, found the > dit/events.c file, and made those above mentioned (about six or so) > small source code patches. I then re-made the port and re-installed > the port. After it tested successfully, I reported my results to the > -questions list in case it would help others. YMMV. And good luck! > > Regards, > > web... > > -- > William Bulley Email: [email protected] > > 72 characters width template ----------------------------------------->| > -- Giuseppe Pagnoni Dip. Scienze Biomediche Sezione Fisiologia Univ. di Modena e Reggio Emilia Via Campi 287 I-41125 Modena, Italy Tel: +39-059-205-5742 Fax: +39-059-205-5336 _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
