Subject: Re: Anyone compiling X on NetBSD-current ? To: Robert
Elz <kre@munnari.OZ.AU> From: Frederick Bruckman <> List:
current-users Date: 04/18/2002 08:56:18 On Thu, 18 Apr 2002,
Robert Elz wrote:  > I guess I should see what happens if I try
compiling X with a DESTDIR > it was being broken because of an
assumption somewhere that DESTDIR==/ > or because it was just
finding files in /usr/X11R6 first, before  DESTDIR!=/ works,
because that's how we make snapshots. [If you try to make a
snapshot with DESTDIR=/, you'll get a lot of old files that
"xsrc" thinks my have been locally altered, and so won't
overwrite.]  I believe "xsrc" does use some of the installed
files, such as "imake", to bootstrap "imake" and "xmkmf", only
if they are available. It shouldn't make much difference in the
end result.  > I appreciate the problems attempting to make
pkgsrc cross compilable > (given that NetBSD doesn't control the
environment), but I think it would > really be useful to make X
compile that way.  Then a complete rel