## Installing from pkgsrc
+### GNU m4 1.4.14 and bison 2.4.2
+
+Patch both *devel/m4* and *devel/bison* using the patch idea from:
+<http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=43098>
+
+Unfortunately the problems are in the *work* directories so that one needs the knowledge from
+<http://www.netbsd.org/docs/pkgsrc/components.html>
+to even get the patches to be applied.
+
+Install *pkgtools/pkgdiff*.
+
+### gstreamer 0.10
+
As of 2010-05-09, I find it necessary on x86_64 to use the following patch for
pkgsrc gstreamer0.10, an eventual dependency of the full xfce desktop:
### xserver
+If one uses the patches alluded to in the pkgsrc section, one can avoid the following build error:
+
YACC parser.c
bison: m4 subprocess failed: Operation not permitted
gmake[3]: *** [parser.c] Error 1
-I'm fed up: I'm going to see if applying some patches to GNU m4 and bison can fix this.
+