Inaccuracies in X.org Wiki

Daniel Stone daniel at fooishbar.org
Thu Apr 14 14:42:03 PDT 2005


On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 04:37:45PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> The ModularizationProposal page on the X.org Wiki claims that "FreeBSD
> uses a different libtool than other OSes" and that this will cause a
> problem when porting a modularized X to FreeBSD.  This is false.
> 
> FreeBSD itself does not in fact include or use libtool.  FreeBSD's
> ports collection however includes several different versions:
> 
> [...]
> 
> Note that 99.9% of FreeBSD users will install X.org from ports, so
> this won't even be an issue except for the port maintainers, who are
> used to this kind of thing and will know how to deal with it.

Yes, but if it was an issue, and our upstream sources didn't support it,
that means that 7.0 would ship without support for FreeBSD out of the
box.  Which is probably bad, no?

Anyway, you answered this question yourself -- it's a wiki.
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