[Xquartz-dev] xorg-server on Macports (works with Tiger)

Jeremy Huddleston jeremyhu at apple.com
Tue Dec 16 21:33:47 PST 2008


On Dec 16, 2008, at 02:55, Peter Dyballa wrote:

> Hello Jeremy!
>
> I updated X11R7.4. In app/xinit/privileged_startx/client.c still  
> bootstrap_strerror() is used, no case for Tiger prepared.

What do you mean by that?

> I configured xorg-server 1.4.2-apple27 without launchd support.

xorg-server doesn't use launchd at all... That's all in xinit.

> After installation without any support via sudo it launched out of  
> the X11R6 based Terminal environment with updated ~/.MacOSX/ 
> environment.plist and ~/.xinitrc files. Stopping it did not seem to  
> work, the icon in dock told it had no connection.

<snip/>

> After applying the recent security patch I'll reboot and see further.

recent security patch?  I'm not sure what you mean.


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