X11BASE warning

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

Florent Thoumie wrote:
> 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).
> 

Sorry, I've been traveling.  My IRC proxy is not working very well. 
I'll try to get online this weekend.  If not, I'll be back home on the 8th.

Given this information, I don't think we need any Tinderbox hooks to 
keep X11R6 around.

Joe

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