Chicken and egg

[Adam Vandemore]

Steven Friedrich wrote:
> Manolis Kiagias wrote:
>> Steven Friedrich wrote:
>>> Lowell Gilbert wrote:
>>>> Steven Friedrich <StevenFriedrich at 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.
>>>>
>>> pkg_info -r cairo\* shows that cairo needs libdrm.
>>> Information for cairo-1.8.6_1,1:
>>>
>>> Depends on:
>>> ...
>>> Dependency: libdrm-2.4.9
>>> ...
>>>
>>> If anyone has a has a test system, where they could try my scenario,
>>> i.e., deleting all installed packages and trying to install xorg, I
>>> think you'll find it.
>>>
>>> I have two identical systems that I have mobile racks in, allowing me
>>> to swap out the hard drives. So I have 4 sets of drives, Lightning,
>>> Daemon, FreakinBSD, and Gandalf.  I saw this issue with Daemon.  I
>>> need to update FreakinBSD and Gandalf, so I'll try this again and get
>>> it in a log file.
>>>
>>> libdrm doesn't build without cairo.h in /usr/local/include, but it
>>> won't be there until you're built cairo, which depends on libdrm.
>>>
>> As Lowell already said, I can't find any dependency between libdrm and
>> cairo. My guess is you package database has one or more stale
>> dependencies. However, if the purpose is to wipe all packages you don't
>> even have to bother with pkg_delete. In such cases I simply  rm
>> /usr/local and /var/db/pkg (Keep /var/db/pkg/linux_base-fc* if you are
>> using the linux binary compatibility, as this is not installed in
>> /usr/local but /usr/compat). I do this routinely on test systems.
>>
>>
> On a system with cairo installed, try pkg_info -r cairo\*|grep drm
>
> Here's from one of my systems:
> Dependency: libdrm-2.4.9
>
> Since I used pkg_delete -a to get rid of all ports and packages, I 
> couldn't have any stale dependencies, could I ?
Yes, you could.
>
> After that I went to /usr/ports/x11/xorg and did a make install and it 
> failed.  My ports are recent, I'm tracking 7.2-RC1, etc.
>


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