Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 02:02:02 -0500 From: "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> To: "Adam J Richardson" <fatman.uk@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrade xorg 6.9 to 72 Message-ID: <d7195cff0707310002y9c3c029xdce55b415671eea5@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <46A8FD70.2020607@crackmonkey.us> References: <20070722171516.GA81747@saturn.pcs.ms> <20070722221650.6e721f26@gumby.homeunix.com.> <20070723192251.GA86535@saturn.pcs.ms> <20070723212314.581ba52f@gumby.homeunix.com.> <20070726182516.GA2928@saturn.pcs.ms> <20070726203817.1ff8fe88@gumby.homeunix.com.> <46A8FD70.2020607@crackmonkey.us>
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On 26/07/07, Adam J Richardson <fatman.uk@gmail.com> wrote: > Speaking of failing to upgrade Xorg from 6.9 to 7.2, has anyone else > encountered the error > > configure: error: cannot find GL library - make sure Mesa or other > OpenGL package is installed > > while building the port "xdriinfo"? I've tried building Mesa 7.0 by hand > and copying files into the appropriate dirs [following the instructions > at http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Building], but no luck. > > X seems to work perfectly well without xdriinfo [since this machine's > way too old for even the most efficient of triangle-pushing games :D ], > but I hate having a stale dependency in my ports database. > > [Apologies if this was asked already - I haven't read the list for a while.] > I believe (CH3CH2OH and all) that on some installations you have to manually install graphics/libGL (or graphics/libGLU?) At least I think (though this was a while ago) I had to do that on one of my systems. And then proceed as Norman Mailer. normal, I mean. -- --
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