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List:       openpkg-users
Subject:    Re: Openwin and xrender
From:       Michael Schloh von Bennewitz <michael.schloh () cw ! com>
Date:       2003-11-12 15:48:20
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On Wed, Nov 12, 2003, Christian Viller Hansen wrote:
> I have been tried to install kde on a Sparc Solaris 9, but it seems to
> be quite interested in /usr/openwin/ - I thought that openpkg didn't
> depend on the host system. It failed when trying to configure kde-qt,
> because the script couldn't find xrender in /usr/openwin/. Then I
> compiled the render and xrender tarballs and got kde-qt installed. Is it
> possible to make a pkgpackage with xlibs?
>
Hello Christian,

Long before KDE appeared on the OpenPKG radar there were thoughts of writing
a X11 server package (probably XFree86), and this idea definitely continues
to live. The only problem is that it is a rather nasty task, considering
that video drivers, things like xmkmf macros, and other things couple the
package pretty tightly to the underlying operating system.

For this reason there is a package 'x11' which acts as a proxy to the
underlying OS's X11 installation. Problems that OpenPKG normally doesn't
have (due to its superb encapsulation) appear here, like varying X11 server
capabilities and supplied libraries (like XRender or Xft).

Some packages (maybe KDE) can be patched to use a common denominator subset
of X11, but there are other packages like 'abiword' which contain too many
Xft calls to be portable. Here, it is something we'll have to put up with
until a real X11 package is added.

Regards,
Michael

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michael.schloh@cw.com
Development Team, Operations Northern Europe
Cable & Wireless Telecommunications Services GmbH

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