Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 00:56:39 -0800 From: W Gerald Hicks <jhix@mindspring.com> To: bright@wintelcom.net Cc: rjoseph@nwlink.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vicious cycle building X Message-ID: <20000224005639N.jhix@mindspring.com> In-Reply-To: <20000224004026.C21720@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002232307340.80223-100000@mammalia.sea> <20000224004026.C21720@fw.wintelcom.net>
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From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 00:40:27 -0800 > * R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@nwlink.com> [000223 23:45] wrote: > > I want to build X from the port with XF86Setup included. In order to do > > this, it wishes to have tk installed. > > So, I go to install tk, and it needs to have XFree86! > > How do I get around the vicious cycle? > > install/compile the X package, then compile tk, then compile a new XFree. > > -Alfred > Unless you've already got X installed you'll have to install the package and force installation. (pkg_add -f) An additional caveat, X86Setup won't work with the latest Tk unless that has been fixed lately. I used Tk-8.0.5 to build mine. After X was built and installed I built it from source and rebuilt XF86Setup from that subdirectory in the sources. Good Luck, Jerry Hicks jhix@mindspring.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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