[kde-freebsd] KDE 4.12 and WITH_NEW_XORG=no

Koop Mast kwm at rainbow-runner.nl
Tue Jan 28 09:47:47 UTC 2014


On 28-1-2014 10:11, Raphael Kubo da Costa wrote:
> As we're finally close to getting the 4.12.1 ports into a reasonable
> stable where everything builds, I'd like to start discussing merging
> area51 back into ports -- we've already skipped the whole 4.11 release
> cycle.
>
> As I see it, the biggest question is what to do with WITH_NEW_XORG=no:
> kde4-workspace will not build with the ancient version of Mesa that gets
> build when WITH_NEW_XORG is disabled. And FreeBSD's pkg building cluster
> does not enable this variable on its 8- and 9- builds, which mean we
> wouldn't get part of the KDE packages built for those releases at all.
>
Just a note with my x11@ hat on:

As you probably know WITH_NEW_XORG is default on HEAD. The current plan 
is to enable this on 10-stable in time for 10.1-R but that depends on if 
vt(9) is merged by then. There is currently no reason to believe this 
won't happen.

-Koop


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