Best Way to Fix a links Browser Compilation Problem

[Chris Pressey]

On Wed, 05 Nov 2003 13:48:31 -0600
Martin McCormick <martin at dc.cis.okstate.edu> wrote:

> 	I am attempting to install a newer version of the "links" text
> browser.  The Makefile tells you to
> define WITHOUT_X11 if you are not using X so I modified the Makefile
> to define that parameter as follows:
> CONFIGURE_ARGS+=	--enable-javascript --with-ssl --without-svgalib --WITHOUT_X11
> 
> 	Actually, that line may wrap when you read this message, but
> all those defines are on one line and the WITHOUT_X11 is simply tacked
> on to the end.
> 
> 	Anyway, if I do a make build, the make abends with:
> 
> mv -f .libs/fcdir.lo fcdir.lo
> /bin/sh ../libtool --mode=compile cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I/usr/local/c
> rm -f .libs/fcfreetype.lo
> cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I/usr/local/include/freetype2 -I/usr/local/inco
> fcfreetype.c: In function `FcFreeTypeQuery':
> fcfreetype.c:279: syntax error before `psfontinfo'
> fcfreetype.c:738: `psfontinfo' undeclared (first use in this function)
> fcfreetype.c:738: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
> fcfreetype.c:738: for each function it appears in.)
> gmake[2]: *** [fcfreetype.lo] Error 1
> gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/x11-fonts/fontconfig/work/fontconfig-2.'
> gmake[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/x11-fonts/fontconfig/work/fontconfig-2.'
> gmake: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2
> *** Error code 2
> 
> Stop in /usr/ports/x11-fonts/fontconfig.
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop in /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4-libraries.
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop in /usr/ports/www/links.
> 
> 	The problem seems to be buried in all those X libraries links
> uses.  Either that or I defined that WITHOUT_X11 variable in the wrong
> way.

Possibly.  In my experience, ports generally accept knobs like this:

  make WITHOUT_X11=yes

-Chris