This is an old problem... and it's not fixed in 4.70 :(
For FreeBSD ports, X11BASE is set in /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk
LOCALBASE?= /usr/local
X11BASE?= ${LOCALBASE}
but of course this file is not picked up when building from just the
source alone [it's my choice to build from source, not from the port]
... and hence X11 is not set correctly by X11=$(X11BASE) in the
OS/Makefile-FreeBSD script.
I complained about this in March 2008 (when 4.69 came out) and below we
can see where the conversation ended:
In message <alpine.LSU.1.00.0803271153220.3495@???>,
Tony Finch <dot@???> writes
>On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, Richard Clayton wrote:
>>
>> .ifdef X11BASE
>> X11=${X11BASE}
>> .else
>> X11=/usr/local
>> .endif
>
>I think we'll have to come up with a way to deal with X11R7 for all
>platforms, not just FreeBSD.
... but since nothing has been done about X11R7, this remains a problem
on 4.70 :( creating the "obvious" error message (which I include
for others to Google!):
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lXaw
I don't see why there needs to be a platform independent fix, when I'm
asking for a specific fix in the OS dependent file :( ... which I
shall now apply for myself !
BTW a better fix (hope I'm not assuming too much of make) might be
1c1
< # $Cambridge: exim/exim-src/OS/Makefile-FreeBSD,v 1.5 2008/07/25 20:39:55 fanf2 Exp $
- ---
> # $Cambridge: exim/exim-src/OS/Makefile-FreeBSD,v 1.5A 2009/11/15 17:44:00 rnc1 Exp $
23c23,29
< X11=$(X11BASE)
- ---
> .ifdef X11BASE
> X11=${X11BASE}
> .elifdef LOCALBASE
> X11=$(LOCALBASE)
> .else
> X11=/usr/local
> .endif
28c34
< XLFLAGS+=-Wl,-rpath,${X11BASE}/lib
- ---
> XLFLAGS+=-Wl,-rpath,${X11}/lib
- --
richard @ highwayman . com "Nothing seems the same
Still you never see the change from day to day
And no-one notices the customs slip away"
