On 7/27/07, viq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 27/07/07, Jeffrey 'jf' Lim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On 7/27/07, Stuart Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > On 2007/07/26 20:27, Paul Barbeau wrote:
> > > > Ok I have installed xbase41.tgz and it get further however I am still
> > > > getting an error. Is there anything else I need to install?
> > >
> > > To build from ports, you need to install the full OS
> > > (all *.tgz file sets).
> > >
> >
> > is this really the case? sounds more like "the easy way out" for me,
> > rather than the "have to" way.
>
> Which part of "to build some ports you need various libraries and
> headers scattered over xbaseXX.tgz, xshareXX.tgz, and possibly others"
> sounds like an easy way out?
>
perhaps we are talking about "easy" differently. I was just hoping for
a more elegant solution to all of this. What I meant was, it certainly
isn't too elegant of a solution if you have to install everything to
get your ports to compile!
-jf
--
In the meantime, here is your PSA:
"It's so hard to write a graphics driver that open-sourcing it would not help."
-- Andrew Fear, Software Product Manager, NVIDIA Corporation
http://kerneltrap.org/node/7228
