From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 15 21:53: 1 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from marbles.lost.net.au (marbles.lost.net.au [203.56.209.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27A4237B417 for ; Tue, 15 Jan 2002 21:52:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (tim@localhost) by marbles.lost.net.au (8.11.6/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g0G5qoG52431; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 16:22:50 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from tim@lost.net.au) Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 16:22:50 +1030 (CST) From: tim To: "Daryl Chance (Stinkfist)" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ports Question (XFree and PostgreSQL) In-Reply-To: <002701c19e51$a27cc4f0$0200a8c0@satan> Message-ID: <20020116161920.K52058-100000@marbles.lost.net.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG No, you don't need X to build postgres. But if you build postgres from the ports with TCL or TCLTK support, they will be installed as a dependency, and they require X. When you make postgres from the ports, just make sure to uncheck 'TCL' and 'TCLTK' in the 'configurations options' dialog that comes up. I think that will solve the problem... -- tim@lost.net.au On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Daryl Chance (Stinkfist) wrote: DCS> I've been trying to install PostgreSQL to check it out and see DCS> about learning it. Is there any way to get PostgreSQL to install DCS> without having to install XFree? I don't use XFree anyhow. DCS> If it requires certain files, can I just put those files in DCS> /usr/local/lib or something? WITHOUT_X11=yes is in my make.conf, DCS> and it's still trying to install it, so I'm assuming that it DCS> has to be installed. I'm just trying the list first before I DCS> go with installing XFree. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message