On Jan 1, 2008, at 07:35, Tabitha McNerney wrote:
Its been a while since I've made a bunch of MacPorts, but I have an
Xserve running Leopard Server 10.5.1 and wanted to give it a try
with MacPorts 1.6.0.
I had problems building XFree86 (I tried to install with the -d
debug option and have saved the output in case it might be useful
to submit to the Trac bug reporting system). Before submitting
anything, I started poking around a bit, looking at some of the
more recent posts about Leopard and XFree86 on the MacPorts mailing
list and also noticing that Apple's X11 app is now based on X.org.
I noticed that there are also some new (well, new since I last
tried MacPorts 1.5.0 on a Tiger Server system in August of 2007),
ports that seem to be related to X, such as xorg-util-macros and
xorg-xproto (but even these newish ports still depend on XFree86).
I'm wondering if anyone can provide a little clearer lay of the
land / big picture to help me fill in the missing pieces (with
apologies if there is a lot more details interwoven into these mail
threads). Are there any recommended paths to take with regard to
X11 app or building XFree86 port? Has anyone else had failure
building XFree86 on Leopard Server 10.5.1 or Leopard 10.5.1?
I guess the first question is: why do you want to build XFree86?
Ports that depend on XFree86 only do so in the event that you have
not installed Apple X11. MacPorts installation documents state that
you must install Apple X11. Therefore, nobody should need to install
the XFree86 port, and in fact, you cannot do so if Apple X11 is
already installed, which it is now by default on Leopard.
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