Re: is the /usr/X11R7/bin/imake suitable to meet pkgsrc dependencies? its not detected..

[George Michaelson <ggm%apnic.net@localhost>]

On 08/10/2008, at 11:10 PM, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:

> On Wed, 8 Oct 2008, George Michaelson wrote:
>
> > yet, there clearly is an imake in /usr/X11R7/bin/imake, there kinda  
> > has
> > to be to make X11R7 after all..
>
> I don't think any imake is used to make Xorg. The xmkmf/imake build  
> system
> has been mostly stripped out and definitely not maintained in Xorg  
> for a
> few years now. There has even been discussion about removing imake  
> tool
> from Xorg.

aha. in which case, making effort to make pkgsrc detect base-installed  
imake is wasted energy.
> (But that doesn't solve your real problem. Hopefully the other reply  
> about
> updating pkgsrc helps you.)


It did. I think I still *had* to have X11BASE but I could be wrong.  
anyway, I'm much happier it works for the simple stuff like wm/tvtwm  
anyway.

cheers, thanks for advice/input

-G