vmware3 on FreeBSD 4.11 and 5.4

[Alexander Leidinger]

"Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd at gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> wrote:

> I like others have run into the problems of getting vmware working
> on FreeBSD 4.11 and 5.4.  I havent seen a posted solution anyplace
> so I went to work on good old regresion testing to find out when
> it broke so I could find what broke it.
>
> I pretty much have it down to the update of ports/emulators/linux_base,
> if you use the old linux_base-7.1_7 code you can get a working vmware
> built.

Since I did the update to linux_base-8: any ideas what's the cause? Something
missing? Something wrong?

Those questions assume that vmware3 runs on a native RedHat 8 without
problems... if this isn't the case: even our RH8 based liunx_base (the
default one) is outdated and should be replaced by something new, so don't
expect support for non-default outdated linux_base ports (read: try to get a
newer vmware running).

> And can someone explain why this port now installs into /usr/X11R6????
> it is not part of X11, or have things changed so that now all X apps
> install into the X tree?

There's no formal requirement listed in the porters handbook, which ports
belong into which PREFIX. The current situation is, that most ports which
depend upon (and use) X11 install into X11BASE. Some people interprete
hier(8) as if those ports should be in LOCALBASE and only X11 itself is
allowed to be in X11BASE, and some people think hier(8) tells the people to
install ports which make use of X11 into X11BASE too. Currently we maintain
a status quo in the ports collection (proceed with the current behavior to
install ports which make active use of X11 into X11BASE).


Do you intend to participate a little bit again in FreeBSD-land?

Bye,
Alexander.

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