[MacPorts] #18210: MacPorts not recognizing Leopard X11 libs?

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#18210: MacPorts not recognizing Leopard X11 libs?
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 Reporter:  jmallen@…           |       Owner:  macports-tickets@…                   
     Type:  defect              |      Status:  new                                  
 Priority:  Normal              |   Milestone:                                       
Component:  ports               |     Version:  1.7.0                                
 Keywords:  X11 xorg libraries  |        Port:                                       
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 Sorry to have to open a ticket for this particular problem, but seeing as
 you guys don't have a discussion forum or any other convenient way to
 communicate, this is the only option I have left, as my searches haven't
 been to fruitful. I seriously have a lot of questions about various
 MacPorts problems, and the lack of a discussion forum is really quite
 vexing because there's no convenient way look at previous problems people
 had that weren't necessarily bugs.

 I'm trying to get PyFTGL going, and for that, I needed ftgl. On my other
 Mac (also running the latest Leopard), I used MacPorts and it seemed to
 work properly. Now I'm not really interested in troubleshooting my ftgl
 specific problems here. All I do know is that on my desktop, it appears
 that ftgl built properly with no need for any xorg libs.

 However when I tried to do something similar from my MacBook I had a long
 string of xorg dependencies. In order to make sure that I had everything
 set up properly, I completely removed MacPorts in the manner prescribed by
 the guide, and re-installed X11, XQuartz, and Xcode tools, and then re-
 installed the binary version of MacPorts.

 So I tried again to install ftgl, and I am again installing xorg
 libraries, when I'd prefer to use the ones that are installed with
 Leopard. Do I need to install MacPorts in a different way? I would love to
 know this, because the documentation is very sparse on this subject.

 Sorry to have to open a ticket here, but I've been looking all afternoon
 for a more appropriate venue, and have yet to find one.

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/18210>
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