The X-Server has been patched to the latest 1.7.X series, drivers
and fonts have been updated to the latest versions. This update includes
some components from Xorg 7.6 with a lot of improvements, and it seems
that the performance is much better than the old version. Also this
Update fix build issues with clang and binutils 2.17.50 in current,
remove 6.X gruft and de-author pkg-descr.
I would like to thank:
Beat Gaetzi
Dima Panov
Koop Mast
Eitan Adler
and all Testers.
PR: ports/147646
ports/148035
ports/148744
ports/150223
ports/152889
ports/154457
The Intel drivers was patched to work with
the new server. The drivers for Vesa, NV,NVIDIA and
ATI have been tested thoroughfully and seem to work fine.
A complete changelog of Xorg 7.5 can you read here:
http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.5/
A note to FreeBSD 6.X users: We strongly recommend you
to update your system to 7.x or above.
For updating try
portupgrade -af \*
or:
portmaster -af
Please report any problems and issus to x11 (at) FreeBSD.org.
Thanks to beat@, rnoland@, fluffy@, stas@ and all testers for their help
and Feeback.
Tested by: Community and 2x exp-runs
and/or fails to build; and/or the maintainer has recommended
that the ports are obsolete and should be deleted.
In each of these cases, the port has been in trouble for quite some time.
The deprecation date is set for April 09, 2004, except for a very few
ports that are in really bad shape (or the maintainer has recommended
deletion), in which case they are set for March 09, 2004.
If anyone wants to keep these ports in the ports collection, now is
the time to step up and fix them.
PR: ports/62575
No objection: freebsd-ports, 10 days
list by bsd.port.mk insert anti foot-shooting device, which prevents
infinite fork loop when the user defines corresponding USE_XXX in global
make.conf, command line or environment.
Similar devices should probably be inserted into ports that might be inserted
into dependency list by others bsd.foo.mk files (bsd.ruby.mk, bsd.python.mk
and so on.)
the ECHO macro is set to "echo" by default, but it is set to "true" if
make(1) is invoked with the -s option while ECHO_CMD is always set to
the echo command.
Use command macros where appropriate.
