Problems make installing xorg

[Tom Huppi]

On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Joaquin Menchaca wrote:

> Hi.
>
> I'm a total newbie to building stuff.  I just tried to build something
> like xorg, and I get the following. :'(
>
> ===>  Vulnerability check disabled, database not found

This has something to do with package databases, or some database
which tracks vulnerabilities.  I forgot the details, but when I
looked into it (via a search of 'google groups') I concluded that
it was not a real big deal for my situation.

> ===>  Extracting for xorg-6.7.0_1
> ===>  Patching for xorg-6.7.0_1
> ===>   xorg-6.7.0_1 depends on shared library: X11.6 - found

This is because you have not first pkg_delete'd (or alternate?)
XFree86.  That library came from an earlier installation.  xorg
(the meta-port) has decided that it doesn't need to do much
because it has found a rather important prerequisite.  If it had
not found this, it would have proceeded to build it.  Both XFree86
and xorg build a library of this name.  This is actually a really
good thing because it means that for the most part, older
applications built against XFree86 will usually work fine with no
re-building.  In some instances they won't, however, but I
believe them to be quite rare at present.

There is a thread including me about a week ago which discusses
this issue.  Probably you can find that on google as well, but I
don't know for sure...am rebuilding my browser at the moment and
can't check.

There is also an interesting thread which I ran across involving
the mechanics of how ports determine their prerequisites.  The
xorg/XFree86 instance was used as an example.  Though it works,
there is something of a deficiency in the system at present which
makes it important to run 'pkgdb' after installing xorg.  That was
what I took away from the discussion as the thing to remember.

Good luck with things,

 - Tom