From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 15 14:52:20 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAA531065673 for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2012 14:52:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chmeeedalf@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pb0-f54.google.com (mail-pb0-f54.google.com [209.85.160.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 898A78FC12 for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2012 14:52:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pbbro2 with SMTP id ro2so5727035pbb.13 for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2012 07:52:20 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=7xoxP5z0Gue0wjyqeJddkJAcYaDTbIl4VmENhqF71a0=; b=Ew43FxQFpZ7p9uXTHPNE/pNpS0R0gHv46QNemErE41e5heAwkPmkfidNT2/baav7pT ubBL+0MUvi+dhkZ4lQCW99Y9/TkYNwoy0P61bf9zk+SIW658+iCH79oKU+qdNF3RAxig J5232TCBO5ppgaQulhZT8p9ag46wdK3/2gN/rycrTapMaIauttyfatj5hjEwpuxTXN8N d+NVI+pyWPQNTXzZy+1KUFbXu4WXfnG8ZMkiLRT4p0kDSEi+ULM+naDrvlv1vF5nNZGm cNSgMXRfCs4Ew2qZRr2wRPsS/5SyG/Y6sie5DS2nvJVgoFKZthiJ6jD0lilc7vlaZbYm GC7w== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.68.195.102 with SMTP id id6mr20724252pbc.120.1339771940250; Fri, 15 Jun 2012 07:52:20 -0700 (PDT) Sender: chmeeedalf@gmail.com Received: by 10.68.213.132 with HTTP; Fri, 15 Jun 2012 07:52:20 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <9FEC7A21-71D0-4314-8BA0-2EFDED4683F8@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 10:52:20 -0400 X-Google-Sender-Auth: gpBaZdKhEKEpyf3xYcu6BJauZUQ Message-ID: From: Justin Hibbits To: Samuel V Green III Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: FreeBSD PowerPC ML Subject: Re: Xorg 7.5.2 on powerpc 9.0 Stable ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 14:52:20 -0000 -CURRENT is the development version (not released, only compile from source), so newer than 9.0. Normal users, especially new users, should stick with the releases. You may want to ask on freebsd-x11 mailing list for help with the Xorg port. - Justin On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 10:19 AM, Samuel V Green III wrote: > Thanks Justin, > > As a "newbie" can you help me understand what "-CURRENT" means ? > After my fresh install of 9.0 stable, I ran > portsnap fetch > portsnap extract > portsnap update > Which updated to xorg 7.5.2 where I had build errors. > Is "-CURRENT a powerpc version of FreeBSD" that is available that I > should be installing as a base system rather than 9.0 stable ? > > Thanks again for your help ! > > Samuel. > > > On Jun 15, 2012, at 7:15 AM, Justin Hibbits wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 10:10 AM, Samuel V Green III wrote: > >> Has anyone successfully built this meta port on 9.0 stable ? >> I received and error ( not a broken pipe) but some dependency error, >> and reinstalled 9.0 stable to get the original xorg 7.5.1. >> So far my build of xorg 7.5.1 is building fine. I originally had it >> built, and gnome2 installed but afterwords could not get any internet >> connection configured. >> So I elected to start over figuring I choose wrong config options of the >> org 7.5.1 install. >> >> Any ppc users successfully get xorg 7.5.2 to build ? >> >> Thank you, >> >> Samuel. >> > > I have Xorg 7.5.2 installed on my G4, working just fine. However, this is > -CURRENT, but it shouldn't be too dissimilar from 9.0 in that regard. I > haven't tried building gnome, though. > > - Justin > > >