xorg build failed

[Kaiwai Gardiner]

One would ask as to why xorg has failed to compile, and it appears no
one else here has experienced the same issue; hence the reason I
suggested a clean removal of installed ports and a vanilla compile of
it.

I've updated my ports from the cvs, and haven't experienced an xorg
compilation issue - I compile from the standard /usr/ports/x11/xorg
location, and I don't see to suffer the same issues - co-incidence or
simply being boring with the locating of things has saved me from
compilation problems?

Matty

On 6/4/06, Wolfgang Zenker <wolfgang at lyxys.ka.sub.org> wrote:
> > On 6/3/06, doug <doug at fledge.watson.org> wrote:
> >> Unless you have a reason to want to modify the source, why not use the
> >> package:
>
> >>     setenv PACKAGEROOT ftp://ftp<n>.FreeBSD.org
> >>     pkg_add -r xorg
>
> >> will get you 6.9.0_1 in a few minutes
>
> > There have been updates released  after it was released - nothing wrong
> with
> > building from the source, the problem is when people compile from all
> weird
> > locations, with all weird settings, then complain that the shit hit the
> fan.
>
> In this case the OP just used WRKDIRPREFIX, which is the documented way
> of having your port build directories outside /usr/ports. I wouldn't call
> that "compile from all weird locations, with all weird settings".
>
> Wolfgang
>