[Xquartz-dev] MacPorts - Howto

Jeremy Huddleston jeremyhu at apple.com
Thu Feb 5 14:22:11 PST 2009


Interesting... did you install 2.3.2.1 on this system before you  
installed macports?  It looks like a hang from an older libXplugin...

On Feb 5, 2009, at 14:16, Christof Wolf wrote:

> On Thursday 05 February 2009, you wrote:
>> And for those not wanting to click links and read, here's something
>> you should be able to copy/paste:
>>
>> svn co https://svn.macosforge.org/repository/macports/trunk/base
>> cd base
>> ./configure && make && sudo make install
>
> Hi Jeremy,
> I did the link but it stopped because tcl was compiled with no  
> headers :-) so
> I installed the binary of macports - it went through smoothly, setup
> my .profile and updated
>
> $MacPorts base version 1.700 installed
> $Downloaded MacPorts base version 1.700
>
>>
>> Setup your /etc/profile or whatever to add /opt/local/bin to PATH
>> then... (ok, maybe you can't "copy/paste" this)
>> sudo port -v selfupdate
>> sudo port -v install xorg
>
> that took a long time - if you're curious - I have attached the  
> install
> log :-)
>
> and I tried X11 in macports - it says 2.3.2 xorg server 1.4.2- 
> apple32 -
>
> the first time the X11 just hung (sample attached) I killed it and  
> restarted
> it, interestingly the CPU would not go crazy - but I could not  
> activate any
> of the X11 apps, terminal, kmail, which I had openend, though the  
> "force app
> window" nor the "activity monitor" showed that X11 was "not  
> responding" I had
> to kill it. the third time it is back again to the "normal" abnormal
> behavior - as long I am in X11 its fine  - any other time the CPU  
> goes up to
> 100%.
>
> ciao
> christof
>
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> <install_log.txt.zip><Sample of X11.txt>



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