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> The ports tutorial says all ports need to be built with X-windows running on the build machine. Does that still apply to python3 code? X needs to be install
by anjbe 7y ago
> The ports tutorial says all ports need to be built with X-windows running on the build machine. Does that still apply to python3 code?
X needs to be installed, not necessarily running. It’s needed because some packages, perhaps dependencies of the port you’re building, depend on X libraries.
> There is a man page for 'pkg_create' but there's hardly any tutorials that reference it or how to use it.
pkg_create is not a tool you generally run by hand. Packages for OpenBSD are always developed from within the ports framework. pkg_create is run in the background by the "make package" step: https://www.openbsd.org/faq/ports/guide.html#PortsChecklist https://www.openbsd.org/faq/ports/guide.html#PortsChecklist