Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 13:08:02 +0100 From: Florent Thoumie <flz@FreeBSD.org> To: jeffc@supranet.net Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nvidia-driver won't build with 6.2-STABLE-200705 and xorg 7.2 Message-ID: <46558022.4010500@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <1180006975.46557a3fd7297@mail.supranet.net> References: <18615750.421180006545953.JavaMail.zimbra@s.gid0.org> <1180006975.46557a3fd7297@mail.supranet.net>
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jeffc@supranet.net wrote:
> Quoting Olivier Smedts <olivier@gid0.org>:
>
>> ----- jeffc@supranet.net wrote:
>>> The May snapshot FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE-200705 appropriately has no xorg,
>>> but after
>>> a portsnap fetch, pkg_add -r xorg successfully (it runs) installed
>>> xorg 7..2.
>>> However trying to build nvidia-driver from ports fails with:
>>>
>>> [...]
>>> ===> x11 (install)
>>> ===> x11/driver (install)
>>> install: /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers: No such file or directory
>>> *** Error code 71
>> If you "mkdir -p /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers", then install should work.
>> But the question is "why hasn't this directory been created ?". Maybe you
>> didn't have the "x11/xorg" metaport installed before installing nvidia-driver
>> ?
>
> I installed xorg using pkg_add -r. Maybe that was my mistake and I should use
> ports instead?
No, that shouldn't make any difference.
Make sure you have the latest revision of the port's Makefile (1.59), it
should contain:
pre-install:
${MKDIR} ${PREFIX}/${MODULESDIR}/drivers
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Florent Thoumie
flz@FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD Committer
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