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Date:      Thu, 24 May 2007 06:42:55 -0500
From:      jeffc@supranet.net
To:        Olivier Smedts <olivier@gid0.org>
Cc:        freebsd-x11@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: nvidia-driver won't build with 6.2-STABLE-200705 and xorg 7.2
Message-ID:  <1180006975.46557a3fd7297@mail.supranet.net>
In-Reply-To: <18615750.421180006545953.JavaMail.zimbra@s.gid0.org>
References:  <18615750.421180006545953.JavaMail.zimbra@s.gid0.org>

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Quoting Olivier Smedts <olivier@gid0.org>:

> ----- jeffc@supranet.net wrote:
> > The May snapshot FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE-200705 appropriately has no xorg,
> > but after
> > a portsnap fetch, pkg_add -r xorg successfully (it runs) installed
> > xorg 7..2.
> > However trying to build nvidia-driver from ports fails with:
> >
> > [...]
> > ===> x11 (install)
> > ===> x11/driver (install)
> > install: /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers: No such file or directory
> > *** Error code 71
>
> If you "mkdir -p /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers", then install should work.
> But the question is "why hasn't this directory been created ?". Maybe you
> didn't have the "x11/xorg" metaport installed before installing nvidia-driver
> ?

I installed xorg using pkg_add -r.  Maybe that was my mistake and I should use
ports instead?

Cheers,

Jeff C.



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