pkg/28510: X apps cannot find app-defaults due to xpkgwedge

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>Number:         28510
>Category:       pkg
>Synopsis:       X apps cannot find app-defaults due to xpkgwedge
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    pkg-manager
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Dec 02 04:15:00 +0000 2004
>Originator:     Chuck Cranor
>Release:        NetBSD 2.0
>Organization:
Carnegie Mellon University
>Environment:
                NetBSD 2.0, current pkgsrc (as of Tue Nov 30 2004)
>Description:

        earlier this year xpkgwedge was made the default.   this moved
        the installation of app-default files from /usr/X11R6/lib to 
        /usr/pkg/lib, but our src/x11 lib Xt still looks for the files
        only in /usr/X11R6/lib.

        the xpkgwedge documentation suggests forcing everyone to set
        XAPPLRESDIR in the environment in order for applications to 
        function properly.   [not that many people will see the 
        xpkgwedge documentation as it flashes by on the screen 
        un-noticed.  in fact, since pkgsrc installs xpkgwedge by 
        default, most users will be unaware it is even there...]

        there was some discussion of this on tech-pkg:
          http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-pkg/2004/04/16/0041.html
          http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-pkg/2004/04/17/0003.html
          http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-pkg/2004/04/20/0015.html
        but nothing was done about it.
        
        in the NetBSD environment setting XAPPLRESDIR is kind of silly,
        since we compile our own X and we can easily configure it to
        look in pkgsrc as well as X11 lib.   at a minimum we should
        address this.   in the non-NetBSD using a non-pkgsrc compiled 
        X environment an improved solution is not as clear.   i would
        prefer that non-NetBSD environments using xpkgwedge be set to
        use a pkgsrc compiled X11R6 with a revised XFILESEARCHPATHDEFAULT
        set.


>How-To-Repeat:

        try compiling and running an app that needs its defaults, for
        example, audio/xmmix.

        i also noticed that games/craft is broken due to xpkgwedge too
        (it doesn't even run with XAPPLRESDIR set, it dies with:
        1, FILE, file '/usr/X11R6/share/craft/hcraft/men10.cmap' not existing
        error message.)

>Fix:
        for NetBSD, edit src/x11/lib/Xt/Makefile, add pkg lib to the 
        XFILESEARCHPATHDEFAULT line which currently reads:

CPPFLAGS.Intrinsic.c=   
-DXFILESEARCHPATHDEFAULT=\"${X11LIBDIR}/%L/%T/%N%C%S:${X11LIBDIR}/%l/%T/%N%C%S:${X11LIBDIR}/%T/%N%C%S:${X11LIBDIR}/%L/%T/%N%S:${X11LIBDIR}/%l/%T/%N%S:${X11LIBDIR}/%T/%N%S\"