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Date:      Tue, 17 Mar 2015 19:30:11 +0000 (UTC)
From:      "Thomas Mueller" <mueller6724@bellsouth.net>
To:        freebsd-x11@freebsd.org
Cc:        Patricia <pb44287@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: error with portmaster x11-servers/xorg-server
Message-ID:  <669781.66744.bm@smtp116.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>
References:  <550858A3.3080209@gmail.com>

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On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 9:38 AM, Patricia <pb44287@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi, am new to freebsd.  My error said to send you this info.

> checking for special C compiler options needed for large files... no
> checking for _FILE_OFFSET_BITS value needed for large files... no
> checking for X... configure: error: Package requirements (xproto >=
> 7.0.17) were             not met:

> Package xproto was not found in the pkg-config search path.
> Perhaps you should add the directory containing `xproto.pc'
> to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
> Package 'xproto', required by 'world', not found

> Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
> installed software in a non-standard prefix.

> Alternatively, you may set the environment variables X_CFLAGS
> and X_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
> See the pkg-config man page for more details.

> ===>  Script "configure" failed unexpectedly.
> Please report the problem to x11@FreeBSD.org [maintainer] and attach the
> "/usr/ports/devel/makedepend/work/makedepend-1.0.5/config.log" including
> the
> output of the failure of your make command. Also, it might be a good idea
> to
> provide an overview of all packages installed on your system (e.g. a
> /usr/local/sbin/pkg-static info -g -Ea).
> *** Error code 1


> root@bsd-v:/usr/ports # /usr/local/sbin/pkg-static info -g -Ea
> dialog4ports-0.1.5_2           Console Interface to configure ports
> expat-2.1.0_2                  XML 1.0 parser written in C
> gettext-runtime-0.19.4         GNU gettext runtime libraries and programs
> indexinfo-0.2.2                Utility to regenerate the GNU info page
> index
> libdevq-0.0.2_1                Generic Device Query and Monitor interface
> libffi-3.2.1                   Foreign Function Interface
> libpciaccess-0.13.2_2          Generic PCI access library
> llvm35-3.5.1                   Low Level Virtual Machine
> pciids-20150303                Database of all known IDs used in PCI
> devices
> perl5-5.18.4_11                Practical Extraction and Report Language
> pkg-1.4.12                     Package manager
> portmaster-3.17.7              Manage your ports without external
> databases or languages
> py27-setuptools27-5.5.1_1      Python packages installer
> python27-2.7.9                 Interpreted object-oriented programming
> language
> root@bsd-v:/usr/ports #

I was successful building with portmaster x11-servers/xorg-server
but then X wouldn't start.

What fixed it was 
portmaster x11/xorg
the whole xorg metaport.

xorg-server requires the whole xorg and can't work on its own without it.

Something must have been out of sync before I did that.

Tom




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