From owner-freebsd-stable Wed May 8 9:41:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from texas.pobox.com (texas.pobox.com [64.49.223.111]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F35137B405 for ; Wed, 8 May 2002 09:41:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jamil (sdsl-66-80-32-187.dsl.iad.megapath.net [66.80.32.187]) by texas.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6787C4535E; Wed, 8 May 2002 12:41:13 -0400 (EDT) From: Jamil Taylor To: , Ian Cc: freebsd-stable X-Mailer: PocoMail 2.6 (1006) - Licensed Version Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 12:36:09 -0400 X-URL: http://www.jamiltaylor.net In-Reply-To: <20020508162720.GP8681@leviathan.inethouston.net> Subject: Re: XFree86-4-libraries wont build (fixed) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <20020508164113.6787C4535E@texas.pobox.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You know, I was just about to mail the output of a build error I= am running into right now with the XFree86-4 port. My system has= 4.02 running right now, and I need to update it to 4.20 for support of= my Radeon video card. My build consistently fails at the XFree86-4-documents port each= time: "Makefile", line 1050: Missing dependency operator "Makefile", line 1051: Missing dependency operator "Makefile", line 1100: Missing dependency operator "Makefile", line 1125: Missing dependency operator "Makefile", line 1126: Missing dependency operator make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4-documents/work/xc/doc/specs. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4-documents/work/xc/doc. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4-documents. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4. This occurred after a fresh (repeated) cvsup of my ports tree. On Wed, 8 May 2002 11:27:20 -0500, David W. Chapman Jr. wrote: >On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 10:26:16AM -0600, Ian wrote: >> >> >>>From: Dermot McNally >>> >>>Kal Torak wrote: >>>> >>>>[XFree86-4 build errors]. >>> >>>OK, with Kal's help, I've overcome this same problem. What we >>>did: >>> >>>Add the line "XFREE86_VERSION=3D4" to /etc/make.conf (didn't= fix >>>the >>>problem, but is no harm) >>> >>>Build the port again, but having first zapped /usr/X11R6 (it >>>turned out >>>we had installed this from CD, probably still version 3). >>> >>>Dermot >>> >> >>Having version 3 around makes it impossible to build version 4= in >>ports? >>That sounds like something that needs to be fixed in the port. >> >>I had exactly the same errors you did, I just gave up easily >>because I have >>no real desire to run a newer version, since version 3 does >>everything I >>need. > >Everyone is eager to suggest the port fix it, but not so eager= to >impliment a method for this > -- Jamil Taylor, jamil_taylor@pobox.com on 05/08/2002 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message