building X on DragonFly

[Dave Leimbach]

Craig Dooley <cd5697 at xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Craig... Thanks!  This is most helpful.  I was just getting some
obscure looking errors regarding the ability/inability to make install
:).

I'll give this a shot.

Dave

> I got mine working by
> pkg_delete -rf "XFree*";
> build:
>   /usr/dfports/make/imake4
>   /usr/dfports/x11/XFree86-4-libraries
>   /usr/ports/x11-server/XFree86-4-server
>   /usr/ports/graphics/dri
> 
>   it will die with freetype having unresolved symbols to expat.  For
>   some reason the linker is not picking up all the paths, so I did
>   something like:
>     cd /usr/local/lib;
>     for x in `ls *.so.*`;do
>       ln -s /usr/local/bin/${x} /usr/lib/${x}
>     done
>   and the same for /usr/X11R6/bin
>   you can use cpdup also I believe, but I prefered to just symlink
>   /usr/ports/x11/kdebase3 needs you to take ksysguardd out of
>   work/kdebase/Makefile.  It also needs the chown/chmod line taken out
>   of the port Makefile.  kdenetwork built fine for me.  
> 
> As for X, what is the best path?  Should we take FreeBSD.cf, and make a
> Dragonfly.cf?  I doubt we can get into 4.4, but we could keep it
> locally.  Is that enough to fix things, or is it more broken than that?
> I havent looked at the dfport yet.  Hope this helps
> 
> -Craig
> 
> On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 10:09:39AM -0600, David Leimbach wrote:
> > Any ideas?  I'd like to take a swing at compiling KDE on it.
> > 
> > Dave
> 
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> Craig Dooley                                            craig at xxxxxxxxxx
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