Re: XQuartz install not creating /usr/X11R6 symlink on 10.11?
Re: XQuartz install not creating /usr/X11R6 symlink on 10.11?
- Subject: Re: XQuartz install not creating /usr/X11R6 symlink on 10.11?
- From: Jeremy Sequoia <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2015 09:27:09 -0700
OSX provides content in /usr/X11 and /usr/X11R6 as part of the OS which operate just to cause /Applications/Utilities/X11.app to launch. This X11.app basically just directs users to download XQuartz.
It also contains a post-install script hook that XQuartz calls as part of its post-install. This hook calls x11-select and causes all the stubs to be uninstalled.
I'm curious if affected users just don't have the stubs for some reason.
Sent from my iPhone...
> On Oct 9, 2015, at 09:13, Tim Cox <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> I too didn't get the link to /usr/X11R6 until I ran the x11-select manually. I had installed 278c1 in El Capitan and only /usr/X11 was defined. Sorry, I don't know what 'were the X11 redirection stubs present at install time?' means exactly.
> Afterwards,
>
> ls -Flat /usr/X11*
> lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 8 Oct 9 13:26 /usr/X11@ -> /opt/X11
> lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 8 Oct 9 13:26 /usr/X11R6@ -> /opt/X11
>
> Tim
>
>> On Oct 09, 2015, at 17:40 , Jeremy Sequoia <email@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> It did both for me. For the affected users, were the X11 redirection stubs present at install time? The call to x11-select is in its postinstall hook.
>>
>> In any event, the call to x11-select will be in Xquartz's postinstall script itself whenever I get some cycles to spin and test another update.
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone...
>>
>>>> On Oct 8, 2015, at 23:52, Martin Costabel <email@hidden> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 9/10/15 02:56, Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia wrote:
>>>> /usr/libexec/x11-select /opt/X11
>>>
>>> Thank you. I confirm that this works (if run as root, anyway). It installs both the /usr/X11 and the /usrX11R6 symlinks (somewhat surprisingly, given that /usr/ is supposed to untouchable now).
>>> I confirm also that installing Xquartz on 10.11 does *not* install the /usr/X11R6 symlink, only /usr/X11. From discussions on the Fink users lists I gather that this is being observed by others as well.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Martin
>
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