building X on DragonFly

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Tue, 09 Dec 2003 14:07:57 -0600, David Leimbach wrote:

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> On Dec 9, 2003, at 1:59 PM, David Rhodus wrote:
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>> On Dec 9, 2003, at 2:45 PM, David Leimbach wrote:
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>>> On Dec 9, 2003, at 12:44 PM, David Rhodus wrote:
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>>>> On Dec 9, 2003, at 1:34 PM, David Leimbach wrote:
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>>>>>
>>>>> On Dec 9, 2003, at 11:23 AM, Adam K Kirchhoff wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> David Leimbach <leimbacd at xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>>> Any ideas?  I'd like to take a swing at compiling KDE on it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> XFree86, from the ports tree (and the dfports tree) will build just
>>>>>> fine.  KDE and Gnome, however, both fail to build at this time.
>>>>>
>>>>> I disagree... the regular ports tree XFree86 failed on my box.
>>>>> but I was building the server.
>>>> You can build X if you have the dfports installed.
>>>>>
>>>
>>> I have dfports.  I don't see an X server anywhere in there.  Is it 
>>> just
>>> the libs and I will have to display elsewhere?  If so I can do that.
>>
>> Well then, maybe you should just try to build it straight from the 
>> FreeBSD
>> ports tree. The reason the build dies is because of a linker path 
>> search fails.
>> If you'll look back through the news-group I gave a script file 
>> showing how to
>> quickly hack around and fix the build problem.
>>
> 
> What's the newsgroup address... I was thinking about using this instead 
> of email
> from now on... [is it postable?]

http://www.dragonflybsd.org/Main/forums.cgi

Yeah, it's postable.. I am using newsgroup instead mailing list and am
posting from pan. :-)

Cheers,
Mezz

> Dave
> 
>> -DR
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