From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 28 13:41:04 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F9A51065692 for ; Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:41:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from mail5.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail5.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.7]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 792AC8FC2E for ; Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:41:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (qmail 13041 invoked from network); 28 Apr 2009 13:41:03 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail5.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 28 Apr 2009 13:41:03 -0000 Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 323E05084B; Tue, 28 Apr 2009 09:41:02 -0400 (EDT) To: Steven Friedrich References: <49F5F9F9.5050506@InsightBB.com> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 09:41:02 -0400 In-Reply-To: <49F5F9F9.5050506@InsightBB.com> (Steven Friedrich's message of "Mon\, 27 Apr 2009 14\:31\:21 -0400") Message-ID: <443absdhg1.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Chicken and egg X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:41:05 -0000 Steven Friedrich writes: > I've been having trouble with X11 ports, so I deleted all my packages > and tried to install xorg fresh. > > xorg port failed trying to build cairo, cairo failed because it > couldn't build libdrm, libdrm failed because cairo's headers weren't > installed. > > So in summary, I can't install cairo because it wants to build libdrm, > which won't build/install because it wants cairo. > > And I tried to install packages or the X11 distro from the ftp site > and also from my 7.2 RC-1 media. I tried setting the Options for > "any" as well as RELEASE_7_2_0, to no avail. My system is up and > running multi-user, so sysinstall failed to install any packages. > > I built cairo with make -k install, so it would brute force past the > error, and after that I built libdrm and cairo again with portupgrade > -fr libdrm cairo. Not only have I not seen or heard of this problem before, I can't see any direct dependency of either libdrm or cairo on the other. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/