First Selfupdate Fails on MacPro

[Ryan Schmidt]

On May 4, 2007, at 18:14, Nathan Corvino wrote:

> I just got a new MacPro, and decided to give MacPorts a try this  
> time around.  I would like to get it up and running, but right now  
> it is looking like I will have to go back to Fink.  I didn't read  
> the installation instructions initially, so I installed the  
> MacPorts binary before XCode and X11, but I have since removed  
> MacPorts, installed both XCode 2.4.1 and X11, and then reinstalled  
> MacPorts.
>
> I get the following log when I try to perform my initial update:
>
> ~$ sudo port -d selfupdate
[snip]
> checking for XOpenDisplay in -lX11... no
> Unknown configuration problem. Please install the X11 runtime
> and/or X11 SDK  packages from the Xcode Developer Tools CD
> configure: error: Broken X11 install
[snip]
> If anyone has any ideas on what to try or how to proceed, I would  
> certainly appreciate it.

Did you do what it says? You need both the X11User.pkg from the Mac  
OS X installation DVD and the X11SDK.pkg from the Xcode disk image.