On 7/27/07, Stuart Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 2007/07/27 16:13, Jeffrey 'jf' Lim wrote:
> > On 7/27/07, Stuart Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > On 2007/07/26 20:27, Paul Barbeau wrote:
> > > > Ok I have installed xbase41.tgz and it get further however I am still
> > > > getting an error. Is there anything else I need to install?
> > >
> > > To build from ports, you need to install the full OS
> > > (all *.tgz file sets).
> >
> > is this really the case? sounds more like "the easy way out" for me,
> > rather than the "have to" way.
>
> http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq15.html#NoFun "...not supported, so if
> you insist on doing so, you are on your own to figure it out..."
>
and the context of that is, "Building ports on systems without X11 is
not supported, so if you insist on doing so, you are on your own to
figure it out." I already get the X11 point - I'm asking about "the
full OS" point.
-jf
--
In the meantime, here is your PSA:
"It's so hard to write a graphics driver that open-sourcing it would not help."
-- Andrew Fear, Software Product Manager, NVIDIA Corporation
http://kerneltrap.org/node/7228
