Re: PR/44120 fixesproto on systems with older base X installs (Was: Building gtk2 on OS X Tiger (xfixesproto/xextproto issue))

[David Brownlee <abs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/44120; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Brownlee <abs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: OBATA Akio <obache%netbsd.org@localhost>
Cc: tech-x11%netbsd.org@localhost, tech-pkg%netbsd.org@localhost, 
gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: PR/44120 fixesproto on systems with older base X installs (Was:
 Building gtk2 on OS X Tiger (xfixesproto/xextproto issue))
Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 00:50:02 +0000

 On 7 December 2010 20:32, David Brownlee <abs%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
 > On 7 December 2010 00:47, OBATA Akio <obache%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
 >> On Mon, 06 Dec 2010 23:40:37 +0900, David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost> 
 >> wrote:
 >>
 >>> Attempting to build a gtk2 using app on pkgsrc under OS X 10.4 Tiger
 >>> fails with an issue in libXfixes. Has anyone seen this before? Should
 >>> it just be using X11_TYPE=modular?
 >>
 >> As PR#44120, it also happen on NetBSD using XF86 based X.
 >>
 >> Maybe, x11/fixesproto 4.x is sufficient for x11/libXfixes, but too new for
 >> x11/Xfixes.
 >
 > It would appear the four options for affected systems would be:
 > a) switch to modular-x11. This simplest option, but most heavyweight.
 > b) switch to the modular-x11 xfixes - likely to involve swtching more
 > and more libs over time
 > c) reimport fixesproto4.0 and use in this case
 > d) try to use whatever is in the system includes
 >
 > I'm going to have a pass at c) first, unless people have a strong
 > opinion on one of the others being better?
 
 I think we seriously need to consider what the oldest support version
 os X should be and treat anything earlier as automatically modular.
 Which side of that line Xfree 4.4 in OS X 10.4 comes may be open to
 question. For now the latest changes to x11/Xfixes (via option 'c')
 appear to have fixed my issues (will leave the rebuild overnight). If
 people with similar errors would like to try I'd be interested to hear
 their results.
 
 Thanks