Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 22:26:51 -0400 From: parv <parv_@yahoo.com> To: FreeBSD-STABLE <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: XFree86-4.1 appears to be broken Message-ID: <20010604222651.A9057@moo.holy.cow> In-Reply-To: <20010604065030.A20441@johncoop>; from jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net on Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 06:50:30AM -0700 References: <20010604065030.A20441@johncoop>
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so, John Merryweather Cooper shared this in my lifetime... > I attempted to build XFree86-4.1, but all is not well. There appears to > be a linkage error somehow. > > The "tail" of my build revealing the error is: > > making all in fonts/scaled/Type1... > LD_LIBRARY_PATH=../../../exports/lib ../../../exports/bin/mkfontdir . > LD_LIBRARY_PATH=../../../exports/lib > XFT_CONFIG=../../../lib/Xft/XftConfig ../../../exports/bin/xftcache . > /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: ../../../exports/bin/xftcache: Undefined > symbol "XftDirSave" > *** Error code 1 > > Stop in /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4/work/xc/fonts/scaled/Type1. > *** Error code 1 ... > jmc > short answer, john, is, for me, the fresh cvs tree of XFree installed w/o a single problem, which identified (in make logs) as 4.0.99.9* ... good enough for me... ...and now the whole story... something weird happened to me this morning... for some reason i blasted away my XFree86 4.0.3 version + assorted programs. after that i installed 4.0.3 from ../x11-servers/XFree86-4-Server from the ports ... which installed itself along w/ -liabraries. but when i try to compile any X(11) related, couldn't. i say "okay. lets untar old cvs tree of XFree (4.0.3) & cvsup it and everything will be fine". guess what? yup problems building XFree. well, i deleted the cvsup'd version and got the fresh cvs version ... after which X* made & installed itself w/o a hitch. in turn, no problem compiling any [Xx]* related programs ... except xv-3.10a* (it's dying around 'rman'; iirc, it happened earlier too when i last installed it; seems like i will have to search the reason & solution for symptom/cause again.) i must mention that after XFree86 3.3.* didn't like my at-the-time-new ati rage 128 mobility card, i _had_ to get the cvs tree which was 4.0.3; so this time installing from XFree86 cvs tree, for me, was as simple as instaliing a port from /usr/ports... your perception may vary... - parv -- so, do you like word games or scrabble? - parv To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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