Problems installing Xaw3d?

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Tue Nov 1 01:04:30 PST 2005


On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 07:31:14PM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> On Tuesday,  1 November 2005 at  3:51:20 -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 07:14:39PM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> >
> >>>> Investigation shows that the port is installing libXaw3d.7, not
> >>>> libXaw3d.8.  I solved the installation problem by creating a link between
> >>>>  /usr/X11R6/lib/libXaw3d.so.7 and  /usr/X11R6/lib/libXaw3d.so.8:
> >>>>
> >>>>  ...
> >>>>
> >>>> Obviously something needs to be done.  I'd be happy to enter a PR, but
> >>>> I'm not sure which package is to blame.
> >>>
> >>> Looks like you're using XFree86 (not the default), but don't have
> >>> X_WINDOW_SYSTEM set appropriately (see /usr/ports/UPDATING).
> >>
> >> No.  Everything's the default.
> >
> > The only way libXaw3d installs .so.7 is if
> >
> > .if ${X_WINDOW_SYSTEM:L} == xorg
> > XAWVER=                         8
> > .else
> > XAWVER=                         7
> > .endif
> >
> > So I actually got it backwards, and you seem to have X_WINDOW_SYSTEM
> > set to something non-default.
> 
> Not beyond the bounds of possibility, of course, but how?

Most likely is that you copied your /etc/make.conf from another system
that uses XFree86.  You can verify for yourself by reading the Xaw3d
makefile that the above must be the case.

Kris

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