Re: Building X apps on OS X 10.9

[Ian McWilliam <kaosagnt%tpg.com.au@localhost>]

On 11/01/2014 10:41 AM, Jonathan Perkin wrote:
> * 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.
Apple no longer supply an X11 (xquartz) and moved all dev to

http://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac

Newer versions appear to install in /opt/X11 though I don't know if they 
install in /opt on earlier versions either as i'm currently running 
mavricks. It might be best to test for existence in different locations 
instead.

Ian McWilliam