Subject: Re: [REPOST] graphics/xpm won't buuild - SOLVED
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
From: Alistair Crooks <agc@wasabisystems.com>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 05/20/2002 12:08:35
On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 06:56:05PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 09:49:42PM +0100, xs@kittenz.org wrote:
> > on Fri, May 17, 2002 at 10:00:45PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > > On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 09:21:38PM +0200, Xavier HUMBERT wrote:
> > > > The fact remains that it is strange that mrtg requires an installed X
> > > > system ...
> > > 
> > > It's annoying me too (I don't have X on servers). But I don't feel rewriting
> > > the image generator :)
> > 
> > fwiw, I use mrtg on an X11-less server. I just comment out the line
> > which adds /usr/X11R6/include to the include path, and the two buildlink
> > lines that involve x11 in graphics/gd/Makefile. Then comment out
> > USE_X11 in net/mrtg/Makefile. (gd without xpm isn't a big deal for me.)
> 
> Would it make sense to have a gd-nox11 and have mrtg use it ?

I think it would be great to have a gd-nox11 (or gd-tty) package,
with mrtg-nox11 (or mrtg-tty) using it.

Regards,
Alistair