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: Tim Cox <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2015 19:12:44 +0200
Not sure this is useful, but I also have a machine on which I have updated to El Capitan, but have never installed XQuartz or run X11. There is X11 in /Applications/Utilities/.
Here is the info I see
timcox$ cd /usr
timcox$ ls X*
X11:
bin lib libexec
X11R6:
bin lib libexec
timcox$ ls -Flat /usr/X11*
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 3 Oct 2 13:03 /usr/X11R6@ -> X11
/usr/X11:
total 0
drwxr-xr-x@ 12 root wheel 408 Oct 2 13:03 ../
drwxr-xr-x 125 root wheel 4250 Oct 2 13:03 bin/
drwxr-xr-x 88 root wheel 2992 Sep 17 09:07 lib/
drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 170 Aug 23 03:51 ./
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Aug 23 03:51 libexec/
timcox$ ls -Flat /usr/X11/libexec/
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Aug 23 03:51 ./
drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 170 Aug 23 03:51 ../
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 271 Aug 23 03:51 xquartz_postinst.sh*
That script does contain a rm X11 and a run the x11-select.
Regards,
Tim
> On Oct 09, 2015, at 18:27 , Jeremy Sequoia <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> 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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