From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 24 0:53:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp7.atl.mindspring.net (smtp7.atl.mindspring.net [207.69.128.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D393037BAA5 for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2000 00:53:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhix@mindspring.com) Received: from jhix.mindspring.com (user-2inioap.dialup.mindspring.com [165.121.97.89]) by smtp7.atl.mindspring.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA09322; Thu, 24 Feb 2000 03:53:05 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (jhix@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jhix.mindspring.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id AAA13320; Thu, 24 Feb 2000 00:56:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhix@mindspring.com) To: bright@wintelcom.net Cc: rjoseph@nwlink.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vicious cycle building X In-Reply-To: <20000224004026.C21720@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <20000224004026.C21720@fw.wintelcom.net> X-Mailer: Mew version 1.94.1 on XEmacs 21.1 (Bryce Canyon) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20000224005639N.jhix@mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 00:56:39 -0800 From: W Gerald Hicks X-Dispatcher: imput version 990905(IM130) Lines: 28 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG From: Alfred Perlstein Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 00:40:27 -0800 > * R Joseph Wright [000223 23:45] wrote: > > I want to build X from the port with XF86Setup included. In order to do > > this, it wishes to have tk installed. > > So, I go to install tk, and it needs to have XFree86! > > How do I get around the vicious cycle? > > install/compile the X package, then compile tk, then compile a new XFree. > > -Alfred > Unless you've already got X installed you'll have to install the package and force installation. (pkg_add -f) An additional caveat, X86Setup won't work with the latest Tk unless that has been fixed lately. I used Tk-8.0.5 to build mine. After X was built and installed I built it from source and rebuilt XF86Setup from that subdirectory in the sources. Good Luck, Jerry Hicks jhix@mindspring.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message