Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 09:41:02 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Steven Friedrich <StevenFriedrich@InsightBB.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Chicken and egg Message-ID: <443absdhg1.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <49F5F9F9.5050506@InsightBB.com> (Steven Friedrich's message of "Mon\, 27 Apr 2009 14\:31\:21 -0400") References: <49F5F9F9.5050506@InsightBB.com>
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Steven Friedrich <StevenFriedrich@InsightBB.com> writes: > I've been having trouble with X11 ports, so I deleted all my packages > and tried to install xorg fresh. > > xorg port failed trying to build cairo, cairo failed because it > couldn't build libdrm, libdrm failed because cairo's headers weren't > installed. > > So in summary, I can't install cairo because it wants to build libdrm, > which won't build/install because it wants cairo. > > And I tried to install packages or the X11 distro from the ftp site > and also from my 7.2 RC-1 media. I tried setting the Options for > "any" as well as RELEASE_7_2_0, to no avail. My system is up and > running multi-user, so sysinstall failed to install any packages. > > I built cairo with make -k install, so it would brute force past the > error, and after that I built libdrm and cairo again with portupgrade > -fr libdrm cairo. Not only have I not seen or heard of this problem before, I can't see any direct dependency of either libdrm or cairo on the other. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/
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