On Jan 29, 2007, at 09:42, Tom Krouper wrote:

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Just doing an upgrade of my outdated ports as shown below ... What's the deal with XFree86? I've never seen that being installed before for any of these ports. Note it also fails to even find it from loads of locations. Then after about 3 hours of building ... it failed to activate citing a /usr/X11R6/... path - I though MacPorts used /opt/local/.... So what's going on? What do I need XFree86 for in any of these ports?

Mark Hattam

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$ sudo port outdated The following installed ports are outdated: apache2 2.2.3_0 < 2.2.3_2 apr 1.2.7_0 < 1.2.8_0 apr-util 1.2.7_1 < 1.2.8_1 gettext 0.15_0 < 0.16.1_0 ImageMagick 6.3.0-3_0 < 6.3.1-4_0 mysql4 4.1.20_0 < 4.1.22_0 neon 0.26.2_0 < 0.26.2_1 pcre 6.7_0 < 7.0_0

And I see from the http://www.xfree86.org website, version 4.6 has been the current release since May 2006. So which port is asking for version 4.5?

X11 always goes in /usr/X11R6. It's a peculiarity of X11.

"port info ImageMagick" will show you that it depends on XFree86. You'll also see a "+nox11" variant you can use if you don't want ImageMagick to link to the X11 system.

If you type "port info XFree86" you will see that it is at version 4.5.0.

Instead of building XFree86 using MacPorts, I recommend you install Apple's X11 package. You'd need to install both the X11User.pkg, which is part of Mac OS X, and the X11SDK.pkg, which is part of Xcode.

Ryan,

I installed X11User and X11SDK and I'm still getting those same error messages. Is there anything I can do to get rid of them?

Thanks, Tom

Let's keep the discussion on the list so others can follow it. Could you show us the exact error messages you're getting? What software that requires X11 are you trying to install?