[Xquartz-dev] X11 2.2.0_rc1

[Martin Costabel]

Ben Byer wrote:
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> How many packages are we even talking here?  I count about 27 macports 
> packages that use xmkmf, several of which are now completely defunct 
> (e.g. xmove);  I'm not sure how many Fink has, but I'd imagine it's not 
> too much more.  Maybe time would be better spent modernizing those 
> packages?

Define "modernize". Changing the build system from xmkmf to something 
else requires a major change in the upstream sources. And many of these 
packages are characterized as "mature", meaning they haven't much 
changed for several years and there are no upstream developers any more 
who could organize such a major change. This doesn't mean they are no 
longer in use.

So to me it is clear that xmkmf/imake and the other X11 utils that you 
kicked out from the latest xquartz release need to be kept. For Fink, I 
prepared an xmkmf package that uses the sources from the xorg X11R7.3 
release to supply the missing binary utils and the config files in 
lib/X11/config/. This works at least for building Xaw3d, transfig, and xfig.

-- 
Martin