Re: problem building x11/xfwp

["Waitman Gobble" <waitman%waitman.net@localhost>]

On Sat, May 24, 2014 4:22 pm, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 07:43:40AM -0700, Waitman Gobble wrote:
>
>> I tested by doing 'pkg_delete expat' then a bmake in x11/xlogo.. here
>> is the error.
>>
>> ====> Creating toolchain wrappers for xlogo-1.0.4nb3
>> ERROR: expat>=1.95.7 expat>=1.95.4 is not installed; can't buildlink
>> files. *** Error code 1.
>>
>>
>>
>> So I reinstall expat..
>> pkg_add /z/pkgsrc/packages/textproc/expat-2.1.0.tgz and now the x11/xlogo
>> build works.
>>
>> I don't see expat in the worksrc files.. so this is coming from
>> somewhere else??? I don't believe I saw expat as a requirement in the
>> 'pkgsrc on
>> Linux' page, but maybe I missed.
>>
>
> # make show-buildlink3
> ...
> libXft fontconfig ...
> expat
>
> So expat is pulled in by fontconfig via libXft.
>
>
> Does your fontconfig depend on expat, or do you use the native one?
> Thomas
>
>

Ah, I see. My fontconfig is from pkgsrc, and according to the pkgsrc
Makefile, depends on expat. But the instructions are to install fonts
after apps,

http://wiki.netbsd.org/pkgsrc/how_to_install_modular_xorg/

So I suppose it doesn't get fontconfig or expat 'in time', in that
scenario. Maybe there is a chicken and egg problem there, not sure.

Besides the applications I listed as not working in 'apps' (after some
research it seems these haven't been updated since the 1990's and make
calls to deprecated and obsolete functions, so commenting out seems to
work for me.) - and the necessity of installing the 'which' command to
start Xfce4 (the start script uses 'which' to locate applications),
everything works great and X looks wonderful on this laptop. Thanks alot
to everyone who makes pkgsrc such a valuable resource.



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