XFree86-4-client wont compile

[Erik Trulsson]

On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 08:52:28PM +0200, Andreas Davour wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Erik Trulsson wrote:
> 
> >On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 08:03:04PM +0200, Andreas Davour wrote:
> >>
> >>Some odd errors stop me from compiling. Anyone know what it means, and
> >>why it isn't resolved like it should?
> >
> >My first guess would be that you have some remains from an old Xorg
> >installation that conflicts somehow with XFree86.  What other 
> >ports/packages
> >are installed?  In particular - which version of Imake is installed ?
> 
> imake-6.8.2 according to pkg_info.
> 
> It might be that I havce some stuff from Xorg left.

You do have - imake for one.  imake-6.8.2 is for use with Xorg.  You want
imake-4.5.0 when using XFree86.  (The ports used are devel/imake-6 and
devel/imake-4 respectively.)


> 
> I posted about my problems with Xorg, serious problems that took down my 
> machine, and nobody knew anything. I was fed up with Xorg so I swapped 
> back again. I'd love to get rid of all that if I just knew how, and that 
> it didn't break anything more.

You can always do it the way I do it when I reinstall my ports - nuke
everything and reinstall them from scratch. (By nuking everything I mean
doing essentially a "pkg_delete '*'" and then following up with 
"rm -fr /usr/X11R6 /usr/local" just to take care of any debris.)
It does take a bit of time rebuilding everything, but I almost never have
any problems building any ports.

> 
> Hint if you have problems with Firefox and Xorg! XFree86 works fine.



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