cairo on Tiger: can't locate file for: -lXrender

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jan 14, 2009, at 21:12, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:

> On Jan 14, 2009, at 18:15, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>> I can't install cairo on Tiger:
>
> <snip/>
>
>> Here are the xorg ports I have installed:
>>
>>
>> $ port installed xorg-*
>> The following ports are currently installed:
>>  xorg-bigreqsproto @1.0.2_0 (active)
>>  xorg-inputproto @1.5.0_0 (active)
>>  xorg-kbproto @1.0.3_0 (active)
>>  xorg-libpthread-stubs @0.1_0 (active)
>>  xorg-libX11 @1.1.5_1+universal (active)
>>  xorg-libXau @1.0.4_0+universal (active)
>>  xorg-libxcb @1.1_0+universal (active)
>>  xorg-libXdmcp @1.0.2_0+universal (active)
>>  xorg-renderproto @0.9.3_0 (active)
>>  xorg-util-macros @1.2.1_0 (active)
>>  xorg-xcb-proto @1.3_0+python26 (active)
>>  xorg-xcmiscproto @1.1.2_0 (active)
>>  xorg-xextproto @7.0.4_0 (active)
>>  xorg-xf86bigfontproto @1.1.2_0 (active)
>>  xorg-xproto @7.0.14_1 (active)
>>  xorg-xtrans @1.2.2_0+universal (active)
>> $
>>
>>
>> The xrender port is not installed. It had been, but then r43644  
>> and r43686 changed xrender to a lib dependency and sometime later  
>> I uninstalled it. Does anyone know (Jeremy?) what should be done  
>> here?
>
> The problem is with your xorg-lib* libs.  Cairo is finding all of  
> them in /mp, so it's expecting -lXrender to be in /mp as well.   
> Mixing libs between x11prefix and prefix actually causes problems  
> (see #17558).  I'd recommend one of two courses:
>
> 1) uninstall xorg-lib* and set the +system_x11 variant, so they are  
> just stubs when we switch to port:* dependencies

Set... do you mean put it in variants.conf?

> or
>
> 2) Just install xorg-libs to make sure you have all the X11  
> libraries in /mp.
>
> You should probably go through and rebuild everything that depends  
> on X11 to make sure you have consistent linking


For that, do I use the script you posted some time ago?

It just seems to me that any Tiger user with any X-using ports would  
run into this issue. How are users supposed to be handling this issue?