[Xquartz-dev] 2.4.1_alpha1 for SnowLeopard

Jeremy Huddleston jeremyhu at apple.com
Sun Sep 20 21:43:55 PDT 2009


On Sep 19, 2009, at 00:25, John Koren wrote:

> Jeremy,
>
> I installed 2.4.1_alpha1 on a brand new computer with pre-installed
> SL. I had done no other additions to the system. I noticed that the
> tail end of  the "path" variable was set to "/usr/X11R6/bin
> /opt/X11/bin /opt/X11/bin". Hence the 2.4.1_alpha1 X11 binaries would
> not be used. Also /opt/X11/bin is repeated twice.

Yeah, the "ordering" is due to the /etc/paths.d file... X11 is the "/ 
usr/X11" one... XQuartz is the "/opt/X11" one... too bad we didn't  
prefix those with numbers...

hmm...

any idea why it's coming up twice?  is /usr/X11 in there twice?  why  
is /usr/X11R6/bin in there and not /usr/X11 ?


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