viteno> Steve Youngs <youngs(a)xemacs.org&gt; writes: viteno> Hi! viteno> I can confirm the /usr/local part. I've attached a diff between two viteno> Installation files, one created with site-stuff, one without. viteno> I don't know about /usr/X11R6, I haven't needed it until now. Note, viteno> that the X11 libraries are automatically included. This might be viteno> caused through dependencies. i was not sure about those so i have been including them i noticed the FreeBSD port adds /usr/local to site-libs and site-includes viteno> norbert. just wondering how we can get those options included with the configure script can we do a OS check and add them if its FreeBSD ?? viteno> --- Installation.no-site Sat Aug 31 08:44:52 2002 viteno> +++ Installation Sat Aug 31 08:47:17 2002 viteno> ＠＠ -1,6 +1,6 ＠＠ viteno> uname -a: FreeBSD viteno.dyns.net 4.6-STABLE FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE #13: Mon Aug 19 21:35:31 CEST 2002 nk＠viteno.dyns.net:/usr/local/obj/usr/local/src/sys/VITENO i386 viteno> -configure '--prefix=/usr/users/nk/local' '--use-union-type' '--with-toolbars=no' '--with-mule' '--pdump' '--use-kkcc' viteno> +configure '--site-includes=/usr/local/include' '--site-libraries=/usr/local/lib' '--prefix=/usr/users/nk/local' '--use-union-type' '--with-toolbars=no' '--with-mule' '--pdump' '--use-kkcc' viteno> XEmacs 21.5-b8 "broccoli" (+CVS-20020828) configured for `i386-unknown-freebsd4.6'. viteno> ＠＠ -9,7 +9,9 ＠＠ viteno> Compilation / Installation: viteno> Source code location: /usr/users/nk/cvs/xemacs-21.5 viteno> Installation prefix: /usr/users/nk/local viteno> - Runtime library search path: /usr/X11R6/lib viteno> + Additional header files: /usr/local/include viteno> + Additional libraries: /usr/local/lib viteno> + Runtime library search path: /usr/local/lib:/usr/X11R6/lib viteno> Operating system description file: `s/freebsd.h' viteno> Machine description file: `m/intel386.h' viteno> Compiler: gcc -g -O3 -Wall -Wno-switch -Winline -Wmissing-prototypes -Wsign-compare -Wshadow -Wpointer-arith viteno> ＠＠ -30,12 +32,10 ＠＠ viteno> Images: viteno> Compiling in support for GIF images (builtin). viteno> Compiling in support for XPM images. viteno> - WARNING: ----------------------------------------------------------- viteno> - WARNING: Compiling without PNG image support. viteno> - WARNING: You should strongly consider installing the PNG libraries. viteno> - WARNING: Otherwise certain images and glyphs may not display. viteno> - WARNING: (a copy may be found in ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/aux) viteno> - WARNING: ----------------------------------------------------------- i see this here too viteno> + Compiling in support for PNG images. viteno> + Compiling in support for JPEG images. viteno> + Compiling in support for TIFF images. viteno> + Compiling in support for X-Face message headers. viteno> Sound: viteno> Compiling in support for sound (native). -- XEmacs Advocate | Do not try the patience of Wizards, FreeBSD Devote | for they are subtle and quick to anger. Perl Hacker | - Elric (Technomage) , Babylon 5. Apache God | <mailto:rendhalver at xemacs.org> <GnuPG KeyID: AE51D190>

viteno> rendhalver(a)xemacs.org (Rendhalver [Peter Brown]) writes: viteno> The OS check is done anyway. The variable is 'opsys' which is set to viteno> freebsd. I guess, all we have said would be the same on OpenBSD as viteno> well, since it's somewhat port-related. I don't know about NetBSD, viteno> but "*bsd" might be a good bet. does anyone else use the other BSD's ?? and have build options they would be willing to share with us ?? viteno> Still, I don't know enough about the configure mechanism to make this viteno> work, it would all be guesswork. Maybe line 3072 ff (CVS 1.181 of viteno> configure) might be a good place to start with. cool thanks norbert maybe its time to read that book i have on autoconf/automake and libtool then i would have some skills that not many people i know seem to have -- XEmacs Advocate | Do not try the patience of Wizards, FreeBSD Devote | for they are subtle and quick to anger. Perl Hacker | - Elric (Technomage) , Babylon 5. Apache God | <mailto:rendhalver at xemacs.org> <GnuPG KeyID: AE51D190>