From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 24 19:43:17 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC75C106567E for ; Sat, 24 May 2008 19:43:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kitche@kitchetech.com) Received: from rt06.vds2000.com (s6.n225.vds2000.com [64.6.225.6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE8808FC19 for ; Sat, 24 May 2008 19:43:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kitche@kitchetech.com) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60703 helo=kitchetech.com) by rt06.vds2000.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JzzDq-0002Gb-78; Sat, 24 May 2008 15:16:06 -0400 Received: from 72.65.6.48 ([72.65.6.48]) (SquirrelMail authenticated user kitche@kitchetech.com) by kitchetech.com with HTTP; Sat, 24 May 2008 15:16:06 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <1305.72.65.6.48.1211656566.squirrel@kitchetech.com> In-Reply-To: <483864C2.5090605@math.missouri.edu> References: <48381B22.30507@janh.de> <18488.8559.136513.226315@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <4838284A.3030400@janh.de> <20080524151658.GW69430@bunrab.catwhisker.org> <483864C2.5090605@math.missouri.edu> Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 15:16:06 -0400 (EDT) From: "Kitche" To: "Stephen Montgomery-Smith" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.9a MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - rt06.vds2000.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - kitchetech.com X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Cc: Jan Henrik Sylvester , ports-list freebsd , David Wolfskill Subject: Re: ImageMagick-6.4.1-3_1 selftest fails X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 19:43:17 -0000 > David Wolfskill wrote: >> On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 04:38:02PM +0200, Jan Henrik Sylvester wrote: >>> ... >>>>> ImageMagick fails to build for me. I guess it is because I do the >>>>> build as root while a different user "owns the display". (I do >>>>> use kdm for login and start the build after su in a Konsole.) >>>> Built just fine for me, about an hour ago, on -CURRENT with no >>>> KDE involved. OPTIONS screen worked fine. >>> Thanks. As I said, I tried to build with root while root was not >>> allowed >>> to use the display. Granting root access with 'xhost +local:' or >>> 'setenv >>> XAUTHORITY /usr/home/USER/.Xauthority' fixes the problem. Having to do >>> that was kind of unexpected for me... > >> In any case, I saw no evidence that the build of ImageMagick even needed >> to be run within an X11 environment. Examining the output from >> script(1) for the upgrade of ImageMagick shows no instances of the >> string "DISPLAY," for example. (The string "display" shows up, as the >> name of one of the programs in the ImageMagick suite.) > > My experience was that ImageMagick did build, but it also put up a > little window with a message on it. So my feeling is that the OP is > correct, and that at least on some versions of FreeBSD (in my case 7.0) > that access to an X11 environment is required for the port to install. > > _______________________________________________ ImageMagick port does not require X to build for the user that is building it. Sounds like either your ports is corrupted or something deeper on your system is causing this issue.