Re: pkg/45194 (graphics/cairo fails to finish build on Debian Linux)

[Matthew Mondor <mm_lists%pulsar-zone.net@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/45194; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Matthew Mondor <mm_lists%pulsar-zone.net@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/45194 (graphics/cairo fails to finish build on Debian
 Linux)
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 20:23:00 -0400

 On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 20:35:02 +0000 (UTC)
 Aleksey Cheusov <cheusov%tut.by@localhost> wrote:
 
 >  Wow. If you set X11_TYPE to "native" on non-NetBSD system be ready for a
 >  lot of very strange problems ;-) Personally, I'd recommend you to always
 >  set X11_TYPE=modular on non-NetBSD systems and Linux in particular.
 
 A Linux OS I could do this fine on was Slackware, as I didn't have to
 bother fetching a number of X11 lib and dev packages on it... on Debian
 that must be quite tricky, indeed.