I tried adding that line, but it didn't work...

I untar'ed the xcomp.tgz from the ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.4.1/binary/sets/
and it works now... thanks!

/ayn

On 25 Sep 1999, Matthias Scheler wrote:

> Date: 25 Sep 1999 20:40:17 GMT
> From: Matthias Scheler <tron@zhadum.de>
> To: tech-pkg@netbsd.org
> Newsgroups: netbsd.tech.pkg
> Subject: Re: problem with mktemp when installing packages...
> 
> In article <Pine.NEB.4.10.9909251429250.13469-100000@lamar.rem.cmu.edu>,
> 	Andrew Y Ng <ayn@Ngbert.org> writes:
> > This happens with several other packages as well, any clue
> > as to what the problem is?
> 
> You use the original XFree86 3.3.5 sources instead of NetBSD's X11 sources.
> You can fix it by adding this line to "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config/NetBSD.cf":
> 
> #define HasMktemp               NO
> 
> 	Kind regards
> 
> -- 
> Matthias Scheler                            http://www.sighardstrasse.de/~tron/
> 


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