problem compiling xorg 7.2

Ghirai ghirai at ghirai.com
Wed Jun 6 17:33:33 UTC 2007


Hello Garrett,

Wednesday, June 6, 2007, 5:04:22 AM, you wrote:

> Norberto Meijome wrote:
>> On Tue, 5 Jun 2007 10:57:53 -0300
>> "Anton Galitch" <anton.galitch at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>   
>>> I had xorg 6.9 installed, after trying to upgrade it with portupgrade I
>>> deinstalled it and now want to install it from scratch.
>>> My portmanager program works strange thats why I cant install it usin
>>> /usr/ports/UPDATING.
>>> Do you know any other way of installing it using another tools??
>>>     
>>
>> no, use portupgrade as per the UPDATING doc, even if it is,effectively, a 'new' install 
>>
>> _________________________
>> {Beto|Norberto|Numard} Meijome
>>
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>>   Elbert Hubbard
>>
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>> been Warned.
>>   
>     If it's a clean install of X11 / complete system, you can get away
> with doing the standard make install in the ports directories you want.
> The only thing that you need to do is export / setenv XORG_UPGRADE=yes
> like UPDATING states.
>     For upgrades, yeah stick with a supported tool (currently only 
> portupgrade-devel and portmaster I believe).
> -Garrett

As a side note, i used portupgrade, not portupgrade-devel.
I got a few ports reported as failed, but it turned out they were ok.

They only thing i needed to do was to change the path of the modules
in xorg.conf, to reflect the new location.

-- 
Best regards,
Ghirai.



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