X11BASE warning

[Florent Thoumie]

Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> Diane Bruce wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've been getting away with "hybrid builds" in tinderbox, i.e.
>> a buildset with a pile of packages with X11BASE set to /usr/X11R6/
>> but testing my specific port by setting X11BASE in rawenv.
>> This has worked reasonably well, it is very easy to tell by inspection
>> if your port has left anything in X11BASE it shouldn't.
>>
>> But there is a gotcha. I recently had a port that used fltk-config
>> to determine where it's link libs and includes were, of course,
>> fltk was still living in /usr/X11R6, tinderbox was unable to find
>> it and my build promptly failed.
>>
>> The culprit is around line 207 of portbuild.
>>
>> export PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:${LOCALBASE}/sbin:${LOCALBASE}/bin:${X
>> 11BASE}/bin
>>
>> Of course, /usr/X11R6/bin is no longer in the PATH at all, my makefile
>> fails to find fltk-config and the build fails.
>>
>> I suppose the answer is going to be "don't do that" i.e. one should build
>> a complete X11BASE set of packages in /usr/local and use that to test
>> builds against as well. However, it seems to me, that the /usr/X11R6 ->
>> /usr/local is not going to happen overnight anyway and that it would
>> be legitimate to have some sort of mechanism to tell tinder it can
>> use a binary in /usr/X11R6/bin; That's not my call.
>>
>> Just curious what others think.
> 
> I'm not opposed to leaving a static /usr/X11R6/bin in there for legacy 
> purposes.  However, I think it might be a good idea to get some feedback 
> from flz on this as to what his plans are in terms of migrating non-X 
> ports out of X11R6.  If this is still slated to be a long transition, 
> then a legacy PATH element can be added to TB.  Else we'll just leave 
> things the way they are.

I wanted to talk to you on IRC about that but haven't seen you lately.

Anyway, I've been talking with kris and netchild and we concluded that
the easy way to do it was to freeze the tree, merge my exp tree, commit
a megapatch to bump PORTREVISION in all ports that install files in
${X11BASE} (whether their PREFIX is X11BASE or not) and un-freeze the
tree. We will probably recommend that people create a symlink from
/usr/X11R6 to /usr/local (just in case).

-- 
Florent Thoumie
flz at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD Committer

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