Problems building xorg-clients port

[Dejan Lesjak]

On Saturday 06 of August 2005 02:21, Paul Ledbetter III wrote:
> > It does - that's why there is "USE_XLIB=yes" in Makefile. It certainly
> > builds
> > fine on pointyhat which only installs registered dependencies. Perhaps
> > you had stale libX11.so.6 lying around.
>
> I think I see what you are saying.  The ports system can not
> distinguish between different
> versions of the xorg-libraries port.  So it is up to me to discover
> and update the correct versions of software the xorg-clients port
> depends on.

Well, if a port would break because of outdated dependency, you can always ask 
on mailing lists :) Xorg (and XFree86 for that matter) ports will work best 
and sometimes require other xorg- ports (and imake) of the same version. 
Fortunately there are also tools to aid with upgrading dependency chains: You 
can use sysutils/portupgrade utility which is a great help with that. Should 
you choose to use it upgrading xorg-clients for example would be as easy as

portupgrade -R xorg-clients

and installing could be done with something like

portinstall -R xorg-clients

I hope this helps somewhat.


Dejan