problem installing xorg 7.2

Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org
Mon Jun 4 12:32:39 UTC 2007


"Anton Galitch" <anton.galitch at gmail.com> writes:

> Hi
> Because I wanted to upgrade my xorg package to 7.2, I read
> /usr/ports/UPDATING. but the description is only for portupgrade, and I dont
> use it because it works bad on my system, I use portmanager insteed.
> I couldnt upgrade xorg with portmanager so I just deinstalled it, and "make
> install" again.
>
> Thats the message that throws make install:
>
>
> configure: error: cannot find GL library - make sure Mesa or other
> OpenGL packag
> e is installed
> See `config.log' for more details.
> ===>  Script "configure" failed unexpectedly.
>
>
> But when I cd ed to /usr/ports/graphics/mesagl && make install, it throws
> another message:
>
>
> ===>  Mesa-5.0.2 is unnecessary because libGL and libGLU come with
> XFree86 4.0 a
> nd higher.
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/ports/graphics/mesagl.
>
>
> So what should I do??
> Is there any way of installing xorg 7.2 just with make install ??

You need to have XORG_UPGRADE set to "yes".
See UPDATING...


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