Re: building X on DragonFly

[David Leimbach <leimy2k@xxxxxxx>]

On Dec 9, 2003, at 1:59 PM, David Rhodus wrote:

> On Dec 9, 2003, at 2:45 PM, David Leimbach wrote:
>
> > On Dec 9, 2003, at 12:44 PM, David Rhodus wrote:
> >
> > > On Dec 9, 2003, at 1:34 PM, David Leimbach wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Dec 9, 2003, at 11:23 AM, Adam K Kirchhoff wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > David Leimbach <leimbacd@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?]

Dave

> -DR