[Bug 338] X11 forwarding no longer works after upgrading from 2.9.9p2 to 3.4p1

[Tim Rice]

On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, John R. Jackson wrote:

> Oh, fine. :-)  I spent another hour or so looking at the problem and
> found a way around this at the autoconf level.

Cool, I'll look at it this weekend.

> In addition to (hopefully) fixing the PATH problem, it removes
> some odd looking code about explicitly setting xauth_path to
> /usr/openwin/bin/xauth.  It shouldn't be needed if the other code is
> working (maybe it was a previous workaround attempt to this problem?),
> unless I misunderstood something (not that that ever happens :-).
>
The odd looking code about explicitly setting xauth_path to
/usr/openwin/bin/xauth is bacause it first finds an xauth that
is in a directory that ia symbolic link to /usr/openwin

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