Fwd: Problem when building radeon X video driver on Freebsd-current

[René Ladan]

2014-06-22 6:20 GMT+02:00 Kevin Oberman <rkoberman at gmail.com>:

> On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 1:04 PM, Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 21 Jun 2014, René Ladan wrote:
>>
>>  Hi,
>>>
>>> Forwarding this from a user of radeonhd
>>>
>>> René
>>> ---------- Doorgestuurd bericht ----------
>>> Van: "Vinicius Abrahao" <vinnix.bsd at gmail.com>
>>> Datum: 21 jun. 2014 14:12
>>> Onderwerp: Problem when building radeon X video driver on Freebsd-current
>>> Aan: "Rene Ladan" <r.c.ladan at gmail.com>
>>> Cc:
>>>
>>> Hi, how are you?
>>>
>>> Thanks for take care of this port. I use radeon here, and I having
>>> some trouble with build the driver again. How can I figure it out?
>>>
>>> Here is the error:
>>>
>>> [root at phenx /usr/ports/x11-drivers/xf86-video-radeonhd]# make install
>>> clean
>>> (...)
>>> (...)
>>> ===>  Installing for xf86-video-radeonhd-1.3.0_5
>>> ===>   xf86-video-radeonhd-1.3.0_5 depends on file:
>>> /usr/local/libdata/pkgconfig/xorg-server.pc - found
>>> ===>   xf86-video-radeonhd-1.3.0_5 depends on file:
>>> /usr/local/libdata/pkgconfig/xproto.pc - found
>>> ===>   xf86-video-radeonhd-1.3.0_5 depends on file:
>>> /usr/local/libdata/pkgconfig/xi.pc - found
>>> ===>  Checking if x11-drivers/xf86-video-radeonhd already installed
>>> ===>   Registering installation for xf86-video-radeonhd-1.3.0_5
>>> pkg-static: lstat(/usr/ports/x11-drivers/xf86-video-radeonhd/work/
>>> stage/usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/radeonhd_drv.la):
>>> No such file or directory
>>> *** Error code 74Stop
>>>
>>
>> Please do not use the radeonhd driver, which is old and unmaintained by
>> the X people.  Instead, install x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati, and use the
>> radeon driver from that.
>>
>
> Code long unsupported. Mostly non-working. Why hasn't it been deprecated
> by now? Messages on this have been popping up on this list for at least two
> years and it just keeps getting worse (more bit-rotted), but Radeon users
> don't learn this until things fail.
>

I just looked at the svn log of x11-drivers/Makefile, this particular port
has been removed already on 2014-02-28, meaning your ports tree is quite
outdated by now.

René

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