Re: pkg/43550: x11/Xfixes configure fails on MacOS X 10.4.11 (PPC)

[David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/43550; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: pkg/43550: x11/Xfixes configure fails on MacOS X 10.4.11 (PPC)
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2010 04:42:23 +0000

 On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 03:50:05AM +0000, John D. Baker wrote:
  >> My guess is that 10.4 is old enough that stuff like this just isn't
  >> going to work with native X and you may want to just switch to pkgsrc
  >> X. :-/
  >  
  >  This is an interesting prospect.  I've pondered this myself, but only
  >  recently have come into a spare machine with which to experiement on a
  >  major subsystem like this.
  >  
  >  I wonder if anyone else has built modular-xorg-*, etc. for MacOS X?  I
  >  did build X(Free86) 4.4 on 10.1.5 a long time ago and it mostly worked.
 
 I certainly haven't, but I'd expect at least the client libraries and
 most applications to build and work ok (modulo the usual portability
 issues with MacOS) -- the server might or might not, though.
 
 -- 
 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost