Subject: Re: adding X11 package to pkgsrc
To: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
From: Mehul Sanghvi <mehul.sanghvi@gmail.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 08/04/2005 16:40:18
On 8/4/05, Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, Mehul Sanghvi wrote:
>=20
> >     Essentially, pkgsrc does not have my favourite window manager
> > (vtwm), which I would
> > like to make part of pkgsrc.  I've got it to the point where it
> > downloads the source
> > distribution, unpacks it, configures it, and starts to build it.  I
> > run into build time errors,
> > which I can't seem to understand.
> >
> >      I get complaints about not being able to find an include file,
> > even though the
> > -I option points to the correct path for the include file
> > (/usr/pkg/include), the include
> > file is readable by all, and if I execute the compile command on its
> > own, everything
> > works just fine.
> >
> >      Pointers to the right place are much appreciated.
>=20
> Look to other examples under pkgsrc/wm
>=20

I've been trying to follow wm/tvtwm as that is the closest to what I
have with vtwm.

> Also consider trying pkgsrc/pkgtools/url2pkg -- I have used it many times=