Re: xvfb not built on vax and x68k?

[Johnny Billquist <bqt%softjar.se@localhost>]

David Brownlee wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Feb 2009, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
>
> > On Tuesday 03 February 2009, Brad Parker wrote:
> > > David Brownlee wrote:
> > > >     any
> > > >     objections to making those two ports consistent with all
> > > >     the others so all NetBSD ports build the Xvfb virtual
> > > >     framebuffer X server?
> > >
> > > If it balloons out the build times I'd prefer not, at least on the
> > > vax port.  None of the vaxen I use have frame buffers.
> >
> > Well, I think the point of xvfb is that it doesn't require or use a
> > framebuffer in the machine.
>
>     Yup, exactly. The relative additional time for a build with
>     and without xvb is going to be marginal - if you want to
>     save build time you should skip building X11 altogether,
>     or crossbuild from a faster box. Given that x68k is going
>     to have xvfb added that would leave vax as the odd port
>     out.

You are aware that "marginal" might very well mean days here?

        Johnny

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