Re: /usr/ports/xll/XFree86-4

On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, Dan Nelson wrote:

> In the last episode (Dec 03), Mike Hunter said:
> > On Dec 02, "Jamie Bowden" wrote:
> > > I have a new machine that I've just installed 5.1-R on, and cvsup'd
> > > to -C. I'm attempting to build X, and am getting a core dump from
> > > rman during the process.
> >
> > I had this happen too.  I did something really hack-ish to get around
> > it (like delete that documentation or some other unspeakable hack.)
>
> The coredump is due to bugs in the rman command (which is installed by
> the imake port, believe it or not).  I submitted a bugreport on it in
> July, and hopefully it will be in Xfree86 4.4.0.  Installing the
> textproc/rman port may mask the bug until then, or you can drop this
> file into ports/devel/imake-4/files and rebuild imake.

Installing /usr/ports/emulators/linux_compat seems to fix this.  I have no
idea why, but I went ahead and installed it so I could install the Nvidia
X driver.  After I did that (built and installed linux_compat and built
and installed the Nvidia driver), I went ahead and re-entered
x11/XFree86-4/ and did a make install again (mostly just looking for the
error so I could comment the lines out of the makefile), and it built and
installed (after I rebuilt and reinstalled imake-4, just on principle).
There's an odd dependency hiding in there somewhere.

Now I just have to figure out why X only believes this LCD is capable of
640x480 or 320x240 instead of the 1920x1600 it's actually capable of, so
back to -mobile I go.

Jamie Bowden

-- 
"It was half way to Rivendell when the drugs began to take hold"
Hunter S Tolkien "Fear and Loathing in Barad Dur"
Iain Bowen <alaric_at_alaric.org.uk>