Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2002 23:09:15 +0200 From: John Angelmo <john@veidit.net> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Still no XFree86-4 Message-ID: <3D39D17B.6030006@veidit.net> References: <3D3929DF.4020200@veidit.net> <p0511173cb95f611ff1e2@[128.113.24.47]>
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Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> At 11:14 AM +0200 7/20/02, John Angelmo wrote:
>
>> Well here's my latest XFree86-4 build errors, I made a clean
>> build uninstalled XFree-4, perl and so on but still I get
>> these errors
>
>
> This is something of a run-on sentence, and it does not make it
> clear what *exactly* you did.
>
> In my case, I first cvsup'ed my /usr/src tree, and did a buildworld
> and installworld to make sure I had the latest fixes to gcc.
>
> I then did a /usr/local/sbin/pkg_deinstall for imake and
> all pieces of XFree86-4. I do not have anything else X-ish (such
> as Gnome or KDE), so at that point I should have had an empty
> /usr/X11R6 directory. I did not, so I removed everything that
> was left over in that directory.
>
> I then cvsup'ed my entire ports collection, to make sure I had
> the latest snapshot of all the ports. In fact, in my case I first
> *removed* all of the files from /usr/ports/devel/imake and
> /usr/ports/x*/XFree84-4*, but I only had to do that because I
> had a lot of left-over patch files around from my earlier attempts
> to get X installed. And then I cvsup'ed the ports collection.
>
> I installed the perl port. I then did the command
> use.perl port
> which gets the system so it will consistently use the version of
> perl which I had just installed.
>
> I then installed imake-4.
> I then installed XFree86-4.
> In my case (a week or so ago), I ran into a problem were Wraphelp.c
> did not end up where it needed to be. That problem may be fixed by
> now, but at the time I just copied that file to where it needed to
> be, finished building and installing that port, and then went back
> to installing XFree86-4 (the "meta-port").
>
> Other than the problem with Wraphelp.c, everything compiled OK and
> seems to be working OK.
>
> I know it is frustrating when you keep trying to build this and it
> keeps failing, certainly I was frustrated when I could not build it
> for a few weeks. But I do think that the XFree86-4 ports are now
> working correctly, even on -current.
>
>> make: don't know how to make /usr/X11R6/bin/ucs2any.pl. Stop
>> *** Error code 2
>
>
> This program ("/usr/X11R6/bin/ucs2any.pl") should have been installed
> by the port XFree86-clients-4.2.0_2
>
Well if I install XFree86-4-clients before XFree86-4 then everything
works, perhaps this should be fixed in the XFree86-4 metaport since most
ppl start building from the metaport and not the client?
/John
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