What ELSE do I need to add to make.conf to avoid X ?

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Tue Apr 7 09:40:12 PDT 2009


In the last episode (Apr 07), Juri Mianovich said:
> Just trying to install rrdtool on a server.
> 
> Do not want X.  Do not want X11.  Do not want Xorg.
> 
> So I did the "right" thing and added this to /etc/make.conf:
> 
> WITHOUT_X11=yes
> WITHOUT_X=yes
> WITH_X=NO
> ENABLE_GUI=NO
> 
> and then 'make install' in the rrdtool directory.  The problem is, eventually I saw this:
> 
> ===>  Installing for pango-1.14.7
> ===>   pango-1.14.7 depends on file: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/luximb.ttf - not found
> ===>    Verifying install for /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/luximb.ttf in /usr/ports/x11-fonts/xorg-fonts-truetype
> ===>  Vulnerability check disabled, database not found
> ===>  Extracting for xorg-fonts-truetype-6.9.0
> => MD5 Checksum mismatch for xorg/X11R6.9.0-src1.tar.gz.
> => SHA256 Checksum mismatch for xorg/X11R6.9.0-src1.tar.gz.
> ===>  Refetch for 1 more times files: xorg/X11R6.9.0-src1.tar.gz xorg/X11R6.9.0-src1.tar.gz
> ===>  Vulnerability check disabled, database not found
> => X11R6.9.0-src1.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/xorg.
> => Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/x11/x.org/pub/X11R6.9.0/src/.
> X11R6.9.0-src1.tar.gz                           3% of   31 MB 8188  Bps 01h05m^C
> fetch: transfer interrupted
> 
> Oops.  Looks like I was going to get X11 anyway.
> 
> So, what other options do I need to add to make.conf in order to install a
> simple stats/database tool without hundreds and hundreds of MB of x11 ?

Note that it's only downloading that file to install the fonts that are
included in it.  It's not going to install all of X.  You might be able to
comment out the RUN_DEPENDS entries in the pango Makefile to avoid
installing any fonts, but your rrdtool graphs will look boring with no 
text :)

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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