In message <20040206150333.GA5081@ee.oulu.fi>, Ossi Herrala writes:
>On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 09:33:44AM -0500, Steve Bellovin wrote:
>
>> What is the right way 
>> to build x11?  I see there's a /usr/src/x11, but a 'build.sh distribution'
>> didn't create any of the X .tgz files.  (I'm not 100% certain about 
>> whether or not it was built.)
>>
>
>'build.sh distribution' doesn't do any .tgz files. Use 'build.sh
>distribution sets' or 'build.sh release' to build sets.

Sorry, my error; I did indeed do 'build.sh release'.
>
>To build X11 sets with build.sh you need to specify MKX11=YES for build.sh
>in /etc/mk.conf or with 'build.sh -V'.

Hmm -- the comments and the code in /usr/src/Makefile seem to say that
X11 is built unless MKX11 is set to "no".  I now see that 
/usr/share/mk/bsd.README says the default is "no"; where is that set?

>
>Right now there is two options to build X11 sets:
>
> 1) With build.sh
> 2) make release from xsrc directory

Thanks.
>
>You also need to specify path to xsrc tree with X11SRCDIR if it's not the
>default /usr/xsrc.

I am using that default.

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb