Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 01:58:03 +1000 From: Matthew Gardiner <kaiwai@vfemail.net> To: Eric Anholt <eta@lclark.edu> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: XFree86-4 balls up Message-ID: <BCEACDAB.51%kaiwai@vfemail.net> In-Reply-To: <1086623756.779.4.camel@leguin>
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On 8/6/04 1:55 AM, "Eric Anholt" <eta@lclark.edu> wrote: > On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 08:48, Matthew Gardiner wrote: >> On 7/6/04 11:33 PM, "Michael Nottebrock" <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> wro= te: >>=20 >>> On Monday 07 June 2004 09:26, Matthew Gardiner wrote: >>>=20 >>>> But that=B9s the problem, I'm not trying to mix and match. I cvs'uped, >>>> removed all packages and did a clean install of XFree86-4 using the me= ta >>>> port. The problems start occuring when XFree86-4-libraries start to >>>> compile, it starts compiling Xft2 (I think) then I complains that Xren= der >>>> is either too old or not available due to the fact that there is no pk= g >>>> information regarding xrender in the /usr/X11R6/libdata/pkgconfig >>>> directory. >>>=20 >>> XFree86-libraries builds fine on the automated package builder, so I su= spect >>> some kind of local breakage after all. It might be helpful if you could= post >>> some bits of the error you're getting plus a list of your installed >>> packages. >>=20 >> Sorry, I got the wrong one. Its the XFree86-4 client that is the problem= . >> What happens XFree86-4-libraries compiled nicely as mentioned by you, >> however, when the dependency Xft2 is attempted to be compiled, it compla= ins >> about Xrender not being available, however, libXrender conflicts with th= e >> client and thus unable to be installed. >>=20 >> What I'll do is recompile. >>=20 >> As for the packages installed, as I said, nothing is installed, I whiped= all >> the packages off so there is just the base; there is no X11 or anything >> else. Its a "clean install" in other words. >=20 > You don't install libXrender on your own, you install > XFree86-4-libraries which provides it. That's why it talks about > conflicts when you try to install the separate port. If Xft can't find > your Xrender, then you've probably broken something with your > XFree86-4-libraries install and should reinstall it. That=B9s the think, I didn't try to install it. XFree86-4 client whines that when it tries to install a dependency, Xft2, during the configuration process of Xft2, it complains that LibXrender is too old or non-existant based on the fact that there is no xrender.pc in my pkgconfig path. Matty
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