Why XFree86 being installed ?

[Mark Hattam]

I did a install of php5 late last night, and this time it worked as 
you indicated it would ...

powerbook:~ user$ sudo port install php5 +apache2 +mysql5
Portfile changed since last build; discarding previous state.
--->  Fetching php5
--->  Attempting to fetch php-5.2.3.tar.bz2 from 
http://www.php.net/distributions/
--->  Verifying checksum(s) for php5
--->  Extracting php5
--->  Applying patches to php5
--->  Configuring php5
--->  Building php5 with target all
--->  Staging php5 into destroot
--->  Installing php5 5.2.3_0+apache2+darwin_8+macosx+mysql5

If this is your first install, you might want
cd /opt/local/apache2/modules
/opt/local/apache2/bin/apxs -a -e -n "php5" libphp5.so

* copy  /opt/local/etc/php.ini-dist to  /opt/local/etc/php.ini
--->  Activating php5 5.2.3_0+apache2+darwin_8+macosx+mysql5
--->  Cleaning php5


So now I have to try and work out what the previous attempt 
installed, what was previously there fine but is now moved, and how 
to regain the GB or two of disk space that xfree86 used up.

Mark


At 23:12 -0500 3/6/07, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>On Jun 2, 2007, at 20:11, Mark Hattam wrote:
>
>>Just did a selfupdate and an upgrade of outdated ports ... as 
>>php5.2.3 came along ... the Powerbook has now been spent the past 2 
>>hours building XFree86 ... why??? And at the rate of it eating disk 
>>space, I fear it's going to fail before it finishes.
>>
>>I obviously didn't need XFree86 with the outgoing versions of 
>>expat, freetype, pcre and php5 ... so why is it now a prerequisite?
>>
>>The following is the Terminal output which has all been produced 
>>without intervention since the sudo port upgrade outdated 
>>instruction.
>
>Short answer: "sudo port sync" and then "sudo port upgrade php5". 
>X11 is no longer required by php5, as of today. You caught the 
>update at a bad time; php5 only required X11 for a period of about 
>28 hours.
>
>Long answer: php5 has always been built with support for gd2, and 
>the php distribution has always included a copy of gd2. When my 
>comaintainer Jyrki updated php5 to 5.2.3 in r25792 on 2007-06-02 
>05:17:19 -0500, a dependency on the gd2 port was added, because php 
>would not build correctly with its built-in gd2 for some reason. The 
>gd2 port requires an X11 installation, and as the message said, your 
>Apple X11 installation was incomplete as far as MacPorts was 
>concerned. So it tried to install XFree86, but that conflicted with 
>the parts of Apple X11 that you already had installed. To fix that, 
>you could either install all of Apple X11 (you need both X11SDK.pkg 
>from the Xcode installer disk image, which is installed by default 
>when you install Xcode, and X11User.pkg from your Mac OS X DVD, 
>which is not installed by default when you install Mac OS X) or 
>remove all of Apple X11 and install XFree86. I recommend using Apple 
>X11, if you need it. But you don't, not for php5, because as of 
>r25841 of 2007-06-03 09:18:20 -0500 php5 no longer depends on the 
>gd2 port -- a solution was found to let php5 use its built-in gd2 
>again -- so you can just "sudo port sync" and then "sudo port 
>upgrade php5" as usual and MacPorts will no longer attempt to 
>install any X11.