Xorg crashes on compile?

[Csaba Molnar]

2007. February 13. 14.54 dátummal ezt írta:
> Well I tried a re-install and instead of having the cd install binary X and
> gnome I tried to install X by use of the ports, it hung up on "
> /usr/ports/graphics/dri" said there was a gmake error? So I am trying again
> with another install...  Do you know where the xorg.conf file is when X is
> installed from the installation cd? because I did not see it in "/etc/X11"
> Either than the ports system appearing to be unstable should I try and
> update the ports tree? because even portsnap is kind of buggy for me as
> well.

What release are you using? Did you modify any of the config files 
(/etc/make.conf for instance?). I'm not sure X will generate xorg.conf 
automatically or not - been using the same file since FreeBSD 5.1 :) - with 
some modifications.

I would go this route if I were you:

Install FreeBSD 6.2 from CD - just the base system (if you are used to waiting 
for compile to finish, and as a gentoo user, I assume you are) - base, 
kernel, docs, man, and ports (when you got to choose the distributions). Once 
you are set to go, you may put these in your /etc/make.conf

CPUTYPE=pentiumpro
CFLAGS= -O2 -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing
COPTFLAGS= -O2 -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing

You can have athlon-xp instead of pentiumpro in CPUTYPE if you have a 
sempron - but going higher might break things. Don't worry if you're 
accustomed to "optimizing" the hell out of your system: the good port 
maintainer folks made sure that these values will be overriden in case of 
ports where it matters (for instance, mplayer builds with O3 --ffast-math and 
the rest of the stuff).

Then you need to update your ports:
portsnap fetch (takes a long time at first run, than it will be far shorter).
portsnap extract (this is only needed on first run)
portsnap update 

note that further on, you'll only need portsnap fetch && portsnap update (read 
man portsnap to learn how to make a cron job of portsnap fetch).

Install whatever you need to make your system usable: bash, mc, whatever.
Install port-mgmt/portupgrade (if you don't update your ports tree, 
portupgrade will reside in /usr/ports/sysutils instead, but you should update 
your ports tree).

portupgrade will install a variety of commands (pkg_deinstall, portinstall, 
portupgrade). Read the handbook how to use them (and man portupgreade).

And finally, use them. If you want everything and the kitchen sync with gnome, 
you can use the metaport, or you can install parts of gnome separately. They 
will bring in all the dependencies you might need. 

Create a locate database by running /etc/perdiodic/weekly/310.locate as root. 
Locate sample xorg.conf files (since I have modular Xorg 7.2rc installed, I 
don't know where they are on 6.9) - but should be there somewhere. 
Alternatively, you can use xorcfg or xorgconf (one of them is command line, 
the other is graphical - if graphical doesn't work, try the command line 
one).

Try to start x as usual (or as you would on gentoo - your old .xinitrc if you 
still have it will work). 

And most importantly: have fun!

I must say that the problems you describe are highly unusual - when you say 
even portsnap has problems, I cannot fathom what it might be. So, don't 
exclude the possibility of faulty hardware (or excessive overclocking if you 
do that stuff). 

And finally: READ READ READ! FreeBSD has the best documentation of any free 
operating system. They spent considerable time and resources (payed 
professional writers) to provide you with that. So read the handbook (it will 
be installed on your system) - preferably offline in one go from top to 
bottom, to get an overall grasp of the system (it differs in many ways from 
gentoo). Remember, in FreeBSD, almost every config file has its own man page, 
and they are very well written compared to gnu manpages. If a config file 
doesn't have a manpage, it might have a well commented example file, either 
in some defaults directory (like /etc/defaults) or in /usr/share/examples. If 
it has neither, it probably doesn't exist :) To find your way around the 
system lay out, read man hier. man ports will help you with searching the 
ports tree. man portupgrade is mandatory.

You'll have less trouble with ports than with portage, for the grunt of the 
work to provide sane defaults for everything is done by the port maintainer - 
and as you probably noted, when there are additional options, you'll see an 
ncurser-based options screen (these options will be saved, you don't have to 
set them at each upgrade). 

Note that ports now is currently in flux somewhat, as they recently moved 
everything from /usr/X11R6 to /usr/local, the inclusion and switch to the 
latest xorg release is pending, and there are quite a few changes here and 
there. Still, the instability you reported shouldn't be there - I have 615 
ports installed, and only 3 of them is failing on an upgrade currently. 

Good luck!

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