Re: Changing default X11_TYPE from native to modular for some platforms (Was: What platforms work with X11_TYPE=native)

[Benny Siegert <bsiegert%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 12:15, David Brownlee <abs%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
> What happens for systems without native X11 installed? We could
> automatically treat them as modular, but then if native X11R7 is later
> extracted things would break - unless we recorded some state that the
> system had been locked to modular

The bootstrap script could do the heuristic and record the result
(modular or native) in the mk.conf that it creates. This should avoid
surprises like the one you mentioned.

--Benny.

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