On Mon, 27 Aug 2007, Paul (NCC/CS.) wrote:

> but as for -lpopt, JC Reed seems to think that I have to have 
> X11=modular for this?
> 
> which I still don't understand.

Sorry. I never replied to your "cannot find -lpopt". I never said that.

As for your libXrender: it uses pkg-config .pc files but your native X11 
doesn't seem to provide them. It is not your fault. Nobody has volunteered 
to write or improve builtin.mk files to help this.

That's why I hinted that we need to have a more clear error message about 
this.

Or another idea is to force "modular" if you are trying to build a modular 
package -- or have a PKG_FAIL_REASON saying that "modular" X11_TYPE is 
required.

But that is not good for those who do have native X11 that is good enough 
(i.e. it provides the .pc files).