xorg-clients conflicts with xterm (patch)

[Filippo Moretti]

Andy Fraser wrote:

>On Wednesday 16 Nov 2005 3:26 am, James Long wrote:
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>>After hours of head-banging over the past couple of days,
>>I have finally succeeded in installing EITHER
>>xorg-clients-6.8.2_1 OR xterm-206_1.  Previously,
>>installing either port told me that it conflicted
>>with the other, in spite of having cvsupped my
>>ports tree twice to ensure I was getting the most
>>recent version of the ports, hopefully including a
>>fix to the chicken-and-egg problem noted in
>>/usr/ports/UPDATING
>>    
>>
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>I had a similar problem. xterm-206_1 conflicted with xorg-clients-6.8.2_1. 
>portmanager suggested removing xorg-clients after which xterm installed but 
>xorg-clients wouldn't build anymore[1]. Some Googling suggested that the 
>nVidia driver port (I don't know whether you're using this or not) replaced 
>glx.h causing the xorg-clients to fail (unchecked) and reinstalling 
>xorg-libraries would fix it. This worked for me.
>
>I'm not sure whether you're having the same problem or not but I thought I'd 
>mention this just in case.
>
>[1] I also had this problem with 5.4-STABLE but to get around it there I 
>installed a binary package to save time.
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I reinstalled the xorg-libraries but keep on getting the sale error above
sincerely
Filippo Moretti