Re: help with imake
Re: help with imake
- Subject: Re: help with imake
- From: Jeremy Huddleston <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 09:52:02 -0700
On Apr 16, 2012, at 12:22 AM, Itai Seggev <email@hidden> wrote:
> It seems to be some horrible hack for dealing for kdm to deal with Sun and SGI
> X; I basically randomly edited configure.in.in until it compiled. :)
>
> But this leads me to some questions. I now have both OS X XQuartz and MacPorts
> xorg-server (not xorg-server-devel) installed. How different are they?
xorg-server is sometimes newer than the release XQuartz versions, but it's usually behind beta versions. xorg-server-devel is usually newer than the beta versions as it tracks the unstable development branch.
> Is
> there a simple way to remove the MacPorts version?
sudo port -v uninstall xorg-server
> otool suggests that what I
> built is using the libraries in $PREFIX.
> I don't know if this is simply
> because the libaries are there or how the executables were compiled. Will
> removing those libraries break them?
If you remove the libraries, anything that links against them will fail to load...
> Or do ports always depend on/link against
> libraries which are themselves ports?
Yes, ports depend on libraries in other ports.
> So even if I'm using
> /Appliacations/Utilties/X11, macports binaries are linked against different X11
> libarires found in $PREFIX?
All MacPorts X11 applications link against MacPorts-provided X11 libraries. Your choice of X11 server has nothing to do with that.
> I have terrible memories of extermely difficult to trace and subtle bugs
> resulting having both Solaris and X foundation X11R6 installed, and this was
> back when `make World' took 4 hours on a $70k Sun Ultra Enterpise 3000. So I'd
> really like to avoid having two xorg installs, if possible.
Well many, many, many things have changed since then.
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