XFree86-4 balls up

Matthew Gardiner kaiwai at vfemail.net
Mon Jun 7 15:58:12 GMT 2004


On 8/6/04 1:55 AM, "Eric Anholt" <eta at lclark.edu> wrote:

> On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 08:48, Matthew Gardiner wrote:
>> On 7/6/04 11:33 PM, "Michael Nottebrock" <michaelnottebrock at gmx.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Monday 07 June 2004 09:26, Matthew Gardiner wrote:
>>> 
>>>> But that¹s the problem, I'm not trying to mix and match. I cvs'uped,
>>>> removed all packages and did a clean install of XFree86-4 using the meta
>>>> port. The problems start occuring when XFree86-4-libraries start to
>>>> compile, it starts compiling Xft2 (I think) then I complains that Xrender
>>>> is either too old or not available due to the fact that there is no pkg
>>>> information regarding xrender in the /usr/X11R6/libdata/pkgconfig
>>>> directory.
>>> 
>>> XFree86-libraries builds fine on the automated package builder, so I suspect
>>> some kind of local breakage after all. It might be helpful if you could post
>>> some bits of the error you're getting plus a list of your installed
>>> packages.
>> 
>> Sorry, I got the wrong one. Its the XFree86-4 client that is the problem.
>> What happens XFree86-4-libraries compiled nicely as mentioned by you,
>> however, when the dependency Xft2 is attempted to be compiled, it complains
>> about Xrender not being available, however, libXrender conflicts with the
>> client and thus unable to be installed.
>> 
>> What I'll do is recompile.
>> 
>> As for the packages installed, as I said, nothing is installed, I whiped all
>> the packages off so there is just the base; there is no X11 or anything
>> else. Its a "clean install" in other words.
> 
> You don't install libXrender on your own, you install
> XFree86-4-libraries which provides it.  That's why it talks about
> conflicts when you try to install the separate port.  If Xft can't find
> your Xrender, then you've probably broken something with your
> XFree86-4-libraries install and should reinstall it.

That¹s the think, I didn't try to install it. XFree86-4 client whines that
when it tries to install a dependency, Xft2, during the configuration
process of Xft2, it complains that LibXrender is too old or non-existant
based on the fact that there is no xrender.pc in my pkgconfig path.

Matty



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