On Jan 1, 2008, at 18:03, Tabitha McNerney wrote:
On 1/1/08, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
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.
Ryan, this is, in hindsight, a good question. I had, by habit in
the past, been building the Mac(Darwin) Port, XFree86, mostly
because IIRC the Apple X11 app was historically not open source
totally and I was concerned about moving to a possible proprietary
application. But, based on what I've read yesterday, I guess X11
from Apple has been re-based on X.org now so I can see how that
would, in essence, deprecate the need to build XFree86.
With that being said, so if XFree86 is pretty much no longer needed
in lieu of the changes to Apple's X11 app on Leopard, then what
about some of the X Windows ports such as wireshark? Checking out
the dependencies for wireshark, I can trace its dependencies to the
XFree86 port:
$ ports deps wireshark
wireshark has library dependencies on:
glib2
gtk2
openssl
libpcap
zlib
...
$ port deps gtk2
gtk2 has library dependencies on:
cairo
fontconfig
freetype
glib2
jpeg
tiff
libiconv
libpng
atk
pango
gettext
render
zlib
xrender
xorg
...
$ port deps pango
glib2
XFree86
Xft2
cairo
fontconfig
Thanks for the clearing some of my confusion.
As I explained, "Ports that depend on XFree86 only do so in the event
that you have not installed Apple X11." To take your example of
pango, look at how the dependency is defined in the pango portfile:
depends_lib \
...
lib:libX11.6:XFree86 \
That means: it depends on the library libX11.6, and if that library
does not exist, then install it via the XFree86 port. libX11.6 will
already exist on your system if Apple X11 is installed, therefore the
XFree86 port will not be installed.
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