On Sep 18, 2009, at 10:06 AM, Michal Suchanek wrote: > 2009/9/18 Martin Costabel <[email protected]>: >> David R. Morrison wrote: >>> >>> On Sep 18, 2009, at 7:23 AM, Jack Howarth wrote: >>> >>>> Martin, >>>> I don't follow your last statement. My understanding is that X11 >>>> in Snow Leopard is already preconfigured to hand off to an X11 >>>> in /opt >>>> if present (remember that Jeremy Huddleston is both X11 >>>> maintainer at >>>> Apple as well as the packager of the X11 Xquartz updates as well as >>>> being the maintainer of all of MacPorts x11 packages). If you >>>> install >>>> X11 Xquartz under Snow Leopard, it will automatically use any >>>> improvements >>>> to the user interface since the OS will consider it the new default >>>> X11 location (in terms of the runnning X11). >>>> Jack >>>> >>> >>> That's interesting. How does it work, do you know? If you have >>> another program dynamically linked to an X11 library (in the >>> standard >>> way), is it going to use the library in /opt instead of the library >>> in /usr/X11 ? What would trigger that? >> >> As I understood the announcement, there will be a preference pane >> allowing you to choose which X server will be started by launchd. >> What >> will happen if you run binaries compiled against the X11 in /usr/ >> X11 on >> the X server in /opt/X11, well, I guess this will be interesting... >> >> In any case, any improvements in xquartz living in /opt/X11 will >> perhaps >> be available at runtime, but not at compile time unless we switch >> Fink >> completely over to /opt/X11, which means changing every single >> package >> and forcing everyone to abandon the system X11. >> > > Well, perhaps you can introduce a variable which specifies the X > location so most packages can be updated to compile against either > location without further changes. > > Thanks > > Michal
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