Chicken and egg

[Steven Friedrich]

Manolis Kiagias wrote:
> Steven Friedrich wrote:
>> Lowell Gilbert wrote:
>>> Steven Friedrich <StevenFriedrich at InsightBB.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> I've been having trouble with X11 ports, so I deleted all my packages
>>>> and tried to install xorg fresh.
>>>>
>>>> xorg port failed trying to build cairo, cairo failed because it
>>>> couldn't build libdrm, libdrm failed because cairo's headers weren't
>>>> installed.
>>>>
>>>> So in summary, I can't install cairo because it wants to build libdrm,
>>>> which won't build/install because it wants cairo.
>>>>
>>>> And I tried to install packages or the X11 distro from the ftp site
>>>> and also from my 7.2 RC-1 media.  I tried setting the Options for
>>>> "any" as well as RELEASE_7_2_0, to no avail.  My system is up and
>>>> running multi-user, so sysinstall failed to install any packages.
>>>>
>>>> I built cairo with make -k install, so it would brute force past the
>>>> error, and after that I built libdrm and cairo again with portupgrade
>>>> -fr libdrm cairo.
>>> Not only have I not seen or heard of this problem before, I can't see
>>> any direct dependency of either libdrm or cairo on the other.
>>>
>> pkg_info -r cairo\* shows that cairo needs libdrm.
>> Information for cairo-1.8.6_1,1:
>>
>> Depends on:
>> ...
>> Dependency: libdrm-2.4.9
>> ...
>>
>> If anyone has a has a test system, where they could try my scenario,
>> i.e., deleting all installed packages and trying to install xorg, I
>> think you'll find it.
>>
>> I have two identical systems that I have mobile racks in, allowing me
>> to swap out the hard drives. So I have 4 sets of drives, Lightning,
>> Daemon, FreakinBSD, and Gandalf.  I saw this issue with Daemon.  I
>> need to update FreakinBSD and Gandalf, so I'll try this again and get
>> it in a log file.
>>
>> libdrm doesn't build without cairo.h in /usr/local/include, but it
>> won't be there until you're built cairo, which depends on libdrm.
>>
> As Lowell already said, I can't find any dependency between libdrm and
> cairo. My guess is you package database has one or more stale
> dependencies. However, if the purpose is to wipe all packages you don't
> even have to bother with pkg_delete. In such cases I simply  rm
> /usr/local and /var/db/pkg (Keep /var/db/pkg/linux_base-fc* if you are
> using the linux binary compatibility, as this is not installed in
> /usr/local but /usr/compat). I do this routinely on test systems.
> 
> 
On a system with cairo installed, try pkg_info -r cairo\*|grep drm

Here's from one of my systems:
Dependency: libdrm-2.4.9

Since I used pkg_delete -a to get rid of all ports and packages, I 
couldn't have any stale dependencies, could I ?

After that I went to /usr/ports/x11/xorg and did a make install and it 
failed.  My ports are recent, I'm tracking 7.2-RC1, etc.

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Steven Friedrich
Lexington, KY 40509