Louis LeBlanc <leblanc+fvwm_at_acadia.ne.mediaone.net> writes:
> Hey folks. Long time fvwm2 user here (they'll never get me back to
> another wm now!).
>
> Anyway, I switched my OS over to FreeBSD recently, and wasted no time
> making use of the fvwm2-devel port (2.3.?).
>
> Of course, now that fvwm2.4 has been released, the devel port is
> marked as broken in deference to the fvwm2 port. Problem, it wants to
> build with gnome all of a sudden. The 2.3 port at least made this an
> option, and I avoided it intentionally.
>
> Last time I tried to build any of the gnome ports on a FreeBSD system,
> it took over a Gig of disk space to corral all the dependencies
> (something like 6 deep and 7 wide!). Good thing I had just upgraded
> the system to a 40G drive!
>
> How tough would it be to get this built *without* gnome? I really see
> no reason to build it in, since I haven't made any significant config
> changes since 2.2, and I won't be using any of the fancy new stuff
> anyway. Besides, the system I am hoping to get the upgrade on may not
> *have* the space for this kind of extensively dependent build.
Does
./configure --disable-gnome
help?
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Received on Tue Aug 14 2001 - 09:08:08 BST