Re: Problems make installing xorg
From: Tom Huppi (thuppi_at_huppi.com)
Date: 01/21/05
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Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 04:33:14 -0500 (EST) To: Joaquin Menchaca <linuxuser@finnovative.net>
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Joaquin Menchaca wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I'm a total newbie to building stuff. I just tried to build something
> like xorg, and I get the following. :'(
>
> ===> Vulnerability check disabled, database not found
This has something to do with package databases, or some database
which tracks vulnerabilities. I forgot the details, but when I
looked into it (via a search of 'google groups') I concluded that
it was not a real big deal for my situation.
> ===> Extracting for xorg-6.7.0_1
> ===> Patching for xorg-6.7.0_1
> ===> xorg-6.7.0_1 depends on shared library: X11.6 - found
This is because you have not first pkg_delete'd (or alternate?)
XFree86. That library came from an earlier installation. xorg
(the meta-port) has decided that it doesn't need to do much
because it has found a rather important prerequisite. If it had
not found this, it would have proceeded to build it. Both XFree86
and xorg build a library of this name. This is actually a really
good thing because it means that for the most part, older
applications built against XFree86 will usually work fine with no
re-building. In some instances they won't, however, but I
believe them to be quite rare at present.
There is a thread including me about a week ago which discusses
this issue. Probably you can find that on google as well, but I
don't know for sure...am rebuilding my browser at the moment and
can't check.
There is also an interesting thread which I ran across involving
the mechanics of how ports determine their prerequisites. The
xorg/XFree86 instance was used as an example. Though it works,
there is something of a deficiency in the system at present which
makes it important to run 'pkgdb' after installing xorg. That was
what I took away from the discussion as the thing to remember.
Good luck with things,
- Tom
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