From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jun 4 19:23:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mtiwmhc22.worldnet.att.net (mtiwmhc22.worldnet.att.net [204.127.131.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7460137B405 for ; Mon, 4 Jun 2001 19:23:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from parv@worldnet.att.net) Received: from worldnet.att.net ([32.101.235.131]) by mtiwmhc22.worldnet.att.net (InterMail vM.4.01.03.16 201-229-121-116-20010115) with ESMTP id <20010605022328.LMUV29100.mtiwmhc22.worldnet.att.net@worldnet.att.net> for ; Tue, 5 Jun 2001 02:23:28 +0000 Received: by worldnet.att.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 4E8931943F; Mon, 4 Jun 2001 22:26:52 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 22:26:51 -0400 From: parv To: FreeBSD-STABLE Subject: Re: XFree86-4.1 appears to be broken Message-ID: <20010604222651.A9057@moo.holy.cow> Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD-STABLE References: <20010604065030.A20441@johncoop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20010604065030.A20441@johncoop>; from jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net on Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 06:50:30AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG so, John Merryweather Cooper shared this in my lifetime... > I attempted to build XFree86-4.1, but all is not well. There appears to > be a linkage error somehow. > > The "tail" of my build revealing the error is: > > making all in fonts/scaled/Type1... > LD_LIBRARY_PATH=../../../exports/lib ../../../exports/bin/mkfontdir . > LD_LIBRARY_PATH=../../../exports/lib > XFT_CONFIG=../../../lib/Xft/XftConfig ../../../exports/bin/xftcache . > /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: ../../../exports/bin/xftcache: Undefined > symbol "XftDirSave" > *** Error code 1 > > Stop in /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4/work/xc/fonts/scaled/Type1. > *** Error code 1 ... > jmc > short answer, john, is, for me, the fresh cvs tree of XFree installed w/o a single problem, which identified (in make logs) as 4.0.99.9* ... good enough for me... ...and now the whole story... something weird happened to me this morning... for some reason i blasted away my XFree86 4.0.3 version + assorted programs. after that i installed 4.0.3 from ../x11-servers/XFree86-4-Server from the ports ... which installed itself along w/ -liabraries. but when i try to compile any X(11) related, couldn't. i say "okay. lets untar old cvs tree of XFree (4.0.3) & cvsup it and everything will be fine". guess what? yup problems building XFree. well, i deleted the cvsup'd version and got the fresh cvs version ... after which X* made & installed itself w/o a hitch. in turn, no problem compiling any [Xx]* related programs ... except xv-3.10a* (it's dying around 'rman'; iirc, it happened earlier too when i last installed it; seems like i will have to search the reason & solution for symptom/cause again.) i must mention that after XFree86 3.3.* didn't like my at-the-time-new ati rage 128 mobility card, i _had_ to get the cvs tree which was 4.0.3; so this time installing from XFree86 cvs tree, for me, was as simple as instaliing a port from /usr/ports... your perception may vary... - parv -- so, do you like word games or scrabble? - parv To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message