Re: Lesstif update II

[Brian Ford <ford at vss dot fsi dot com>]

On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:

> Oh... I don't think that will work because I don't believe that the
> Cygwin installer guarantees installation order (or maybe it was the
> order that the post-install scripts were run in)... but I could be wrong.
>
Doh!  It is the post install installation order that is not guaranteed.  I
think the actual install order does take into account dependencies.

> On the other hand, you could just add the same code that creates the
> links to the lesstif package... that way the links would be sure to
> exist no matter what.
>
This just seems like a hack.  Surely lesstif is not the only package that
tries to install its app-defaults in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults.

Attached is a new XFree86-lib.sh post install script that implements the
method described in programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/doc/Install section 4.2
"Installing over an old installation".  Please release a new XFree86-lib
with this fix.

I will consider changing the lesstif package to install its app-defaults
in /etc/X11 in the future if it does not appear to be too painful.

Thanks.

> Brian Ford wrote:
>
> > It seems to me that a simple and maybe correct solution would just be to
> > have the lesstif package require the Xlib package.  That seems to make
> > sense and would assure that the links are made before lesstif (mwm) tries
> > to put something there.  What do you think about that?
> >
> > On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
> >
> >>I honestly don't know why.  I think it was something that was done by
> >>the Xinstall.sh script.  Someone else with more X knowledge will have to
> >>answer this question... however, I am perfectly willing to accept a
> >>patch that maybe prevents the links from being created if the
> >>directories already exist.  Or something along those lines.
> >>

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Brian Ford
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