Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 04:33:14 -0500 (EST) From: Tom Huppi <thuppi@huppi.com> To: Joaquin Menchaca <linuxuser@finnovative.net> Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems make installing xorg Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.58.0501210411390.71031@nuumen.pair.com> In-Reply-To: <41F05A3D.3090504@finnovative.net> References: <41F05A3D.3090504@finnovative.net>
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On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Joaquin Menchaca wrote: > Hi. > > I'm a total newbie to building stuff. I just tried to build something > like xorg, and I get the following. :'( > > ===> Vulnerability check disabled, database not found This has something to do with package databases, or some database which tracks vulnerabilities. I forgot the details, but when I looked into it (via a search of 'google groups') I concluded that it was not a real big deal for my situation. > ===> Extracting for xorg-6.7.0_1 > ===> Patching for xorg-6.7.0_1 > ===> xorg-6.7.0_1 depends on shared library: X11.6 - found This is because you have not first pkg_delete'd (or alternate?) XFree86. That library came from an earlier installation. xorg (the meta-port) has decided that it doesn't need to do much because it has found a rather important prerequisite. If it had not found this, it would have proceeded to build it. Both XFree86 and xorg build a library of this name. This is actually a really good thing because it means that for the most part, older applications built against XFree86 will usually work fine with no re-building. In some instances they won't, however, but I believe them to be quite rare at present. There is a thread including me about a week ago which discusses this issue. Probably you can find that on google as well, but I don't know for sure...am rebuilding my browser at the moment and can't check. There is also an interesting thread which I ran across involving the mechanics of how ports determine their prerequisites. The xorg/XFree86 instance was used as an example. Though it works, there is something of a deficiency in the system at present which makes it important to run 'pkgdb' after installing xorg. That was what I took away from the discussion as the thing to remember. Good luck with things, - Tom
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