DJ Lucas wrote these words on 08/11/07 15:29 CST: > Randy McMurchy wrote: >> I'm not sure if at the very end of it, we can add "or /usr". Seems >> most of the scripts looking for the X11R6 also fall back to /usr, but >> I can't say for sure. It would be nice if that was the case. >> > For most, yes, but there are a couple, or at least there were around the > time of the first release, that didn't look in /usr. In fact, IIRC > there were a couple that had /usr/X11R6 in the source code.
Okay, so it would be "any location other than /usr/X11R6". I'm working on it now. > Those interested can look at the XML sources to > see exactly what we did before and none of those previous 'workarounds' > are lost. Or, someone with some time on their hands could move the hacks onto the Wiki, and provide a URL to it on the concerned page. :-) So are we all on the same page with this and accept the fact that a X11R6 symlink is just a necessary evil at this point? And modify the affected packages to comment out the hacks and throw in an xinclude to a blanket file? -- Randy rmlscsi: [bogomips 1003.26] [GNU ld version 2.16.1] [gcc (GCC) 4.0.3] [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.6] [Linux 2.6.14.3 i686] 15:38:00 up 9 days, 15:29, 1 user, load average: 0.07, 0.02, 0.02 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
