error in xfig package

[Karel J. Bosschaart]

On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 04:04:50PM +0100, Karel J. Bosschaart wrote:
> Hi Gert,
> 
> On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 12:21:30PM +0100, Gert van der Plas wrote:
> > While installing the xfig package under FreeBSD-5.2-RC I found some minor 
> > problem with the xfig port. There seem to be some problem with detecting the 
> > installation of Xawd-1.5 properly. Uncommenting the line in the makefile and 
> > a manual install of the port seems to resolve the problem. The problem 
> > occurred on three separate freshly installed systems.
> 
> Works fine here on 5.2. What does 'ls -l /usr/X11R6/lib/libXaw3d.*' show?
> 
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  400816 Mar 11 15:17 /usr/X11R6/lib/libXaw3d.a
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel      13 Mar 11 15:17 /usr/X11R6/lib/libXaw3d.so -> libXaw3d.so.7
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel      13 Mar 11 15:17 /usr/X11R6/lib/libXaw3d.so.6 -> libXaw3d.so.7
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  326294 Mar 11 15:17 /usr/X11R6/lib/libXaw3d.so.7
> 
> I found in the Xaw3d Makefile that the symlink libXaw3d.so.6 -> 
> libXaw.so.7 (actually libXaw3d.so.${XAWVER}) is only made when bin/XFree86
> is installed (by XFree86-4-Server). So if you happen to have a system
> without X server I guess the xfig port will fail because it looks for
> libXaw.so.7 but finds only libXaw.so.6.

Oops, that should of course be the other way around... anyway, what
version is the port looking for and what version do you have installed?

FWIW, I just installed xfig successfully on a (-stable) machine without 
X server (and it runs OK).

Karel.