Subject: Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc
To: John Darrow <John.P.Darrow@wheaton.edu>
From: Hubert Feyrer <feyrer@rfhs8012.fh-regensburg.de>
List: source-changes
Date: 06/30/2000 13:56:29
On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, John Darrow wrote:
> >On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Alistair G. Crooks wrote:
> >> Add a new X11PREFIX definition, which reflects the PREFIX for X11
> >> packages, and set it to LOCALBASE or X11BASE accordingly.
> 
> >What's the difference to PREFIX?
> >Are X pkgs expected to use X11PREFIX instead of PREFIX?
> 
> No, it's for non-X packages which need to know where an X package is located.
> For example, net/ethereal is not USE_X11BASE, but it needs to know where
> GTK (which _is_ USE_X11BASE) is located.

Uh, and why not just use $X11BASE to find gtk?
AFACT, we've alwayse used $LOCALBASE and $X11BASE to reference files from
other pkgs...


 - Hubert

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