Re: Building X apps on OS X 10.9

[Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%joyent.com@localhost>]

* On 2014-01-10 at 23:26 GMT, John Ruschmeyer wrote:

> Sorry if this is a FAQ... I've installed and bootstrapped pkgsrc on my
> MacBook running 10.9 (Mavericks). Everything is fine until I try to build a
> X11-based app whereupon it tell me that X11 is not installed (/opt/X11
> can't be found). What do I need to do in order to be able to build
> X11-based apps?

Can you try this patch?

  --- mk/bsd.prefs.mk   19 Dec 2013 23:50:29 -0000      1.339
  +++ mk/bsd.prefs.mk   10 Jan 2014 23:39:36 -0000
  @@ -573,7 +573,8 @@
   X11BASE?=    /usr
   .  elif !empty(MACHINE_PLATFORM:MDarwin-9.*-*) || \
           !empty(MACHINE_PLATFORM:MDarwin-10.*-*) || \
  -        !empty(MACHINE_PLATFORM:MDarwin-11.*-*)
  +        !empty(MACHINE_PLATFORM:MDarwin-11.*-*) || \
  +        !empty(MACHINE_PLATFORM:MDarwin-13.*-*)
   X11BASE?=    /usr/X11
   .  elif !empty(MACHINE_PLATFORM:MDarwin-??.*-*)
   X11BASE?=    /opt/X11

I don't have any Mountain Lion to verify, but it seems odd that it was the only
release to use /opt/X11 (and we should probably invert the test).

Otherwise, use X11_TYPE=modular in mk.conf to use X11 from pkgsrc.

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