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

Jeremy Huddleston jeremyhu at apple.com
Wed Dec 17 12:03:57 PST 2008


On Dec 17, 2008, at 04:46, Peter Dyballa wrote:

>
> Am 17.12.2008 um 06:36 schrieb Jeremy Huddleston:
>
>>> 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?
>
> That a function bootstrap_strerror() is used. It's not defined in  
> Tiger. You patched xserver à la:
>
> 	#if MAC_OS_X_VERSION_MIN_REQUIRED >= 1050
> 	        fprintf(stderr, "bootstrap_look_up(): %s\n",  
> bootstrap_strerror(kr));
> 	#else
> 	        fprintf(stderr, "bootstrap_look_up(): %ul\n", (unsigned  
> long)kr);
> 	#endif

That clearly doesn't run bootstrap_strerror() on Tiger.  Further, I  
have this running on Tiger right now... do you have the latest git?

>>> I configured xorg-server 1.4.2-apple27 without launchd support.
>>
>> xorg-server doesn't use launchd at all... That's all in xinit.
>
> The configure script in app/xinit does not know anything of launchd.  
> Only xserver's configure mentions this option, as far as I have found.

(12:03:02 Wed Dec 17 2008 jeremy at tifa i386)
~/src/freedesktop/src/xserver-1.4 $ ./configure --help | grep launch

(12:03:03 Wed Dec 17 2008 jeremy at tifa i386)
~/src/freedesktop/src/xserver-1.4 $ cd ../xinit/

(12:03:09 Wed Dec 17 2008 jeremy at tifa i386)
~/src/freedesktop/src/xinit $ ./configure --help | grep launch
   --with-launchd          Build with support for Apple's launchd  
(default:
   --with-launchagents-dir=PATH
                           Path to launchd's LaunchAgents directory  
(default:
   --with-launchdaemons-dir=PATH
                           Path to launchd's LaunchDaemonss directory  
(default:


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