gnome-session failure on xsession

[William Davis]

On Oct 10, 2007, at 10:16 PM, Vincent McGarry wrote:

> This is a new MacBook Pro with a virgin macports installation.  
> Attempting to install gnome-session fails with:
>
> checking for X... no
> configure: error: X is required, but it was either disabled or not  
> found.
> Error: Target org.macports.configure returned: configure failure:  
> shell command " cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/ 
> _opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_x11_x 
> render/work/libXrender-0.9.0" && ./configure --prefix=/opt/local "  
> returned error 1
> Command output: checking if /usr/bin/gcc-4.0 supports -fno-rtti - 
> fno-exceptions... no
> checking for /usr/bin/gcc-4.0 option to produce PIC... -fno-common
> checking if /usr/bin/gcc-4.0 PIC flag -fno-common works... yes
> checking if /usr/bin/gcc-4.0 supports -c -o file.o... yes
> checking whether the /usr/bin/gcc-4.0 linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports  
> shared libraries... yes
> checking dynamic linker characteristics... darwin8.10.3 dyld
> checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
> checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes
> checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes
> checking whether to build shared libraries... yes
> checking whether to build static libraries... yes
> configure: creating libtool
> appending configuration tag "CXX" to libtool
> checking for ld used by /usr/bin/g++-4.0... /usr/bin/ld
> checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... no
> checking whether the /usr/bin/g++-4.0 linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports  
> shared libraries... yes
> checking for /usr/bin/g++-4.0 option to produce PIC... -fno-common
> checking if /usr/bin/g++-4.0 PIC flag -fno-common works... yes
> checking if /usr/bin/g++-4.0 supports -c -o file.o... yes
> checking whether the /usr/bin/g++-4.0 linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports  
> shared libraries... yes
> checking dynamic linker characteristics... darwin8.10.3 dyld
> checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
> checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes
> appending configuration tag "F77" to libtool
> checking for pkg-config... /opt/local/bin/pkg-config
> checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
> checking for X_CFLAGS...
> checking for X_LIBS...
> checking for X... no
> configure: error: X is required, but it was either disabled or not  
> found.
>
> Warning: the following items did not execute (for xrender):  
> org.macports.activate org.macports.configure org.macports.build  
> org.macports.destroot org.macports.install
> Error: The following dependencies failed to build: control-center  
> evolution-data-server gnome-platform-suite at-spi gail gtk2 cairo  
> xrender jpeg pango Xft2 xorg-xproto xorg-util-macros tiff libbonobo  
> intltool p5-xml-parser perl5.8 orbit2 libidl p5-getopt-long p5- 
> pathtools audiofile esound gconf gnome-mime-data gnome-vfs howl  
> gnome-vfs-monikers gtk-doc scrollkeeper docbook-xml docbook-xml-4.3  
> docbook-xml-4.4 docbook-xml-4.5 libart_lgpl libbonoboui libgnome  
> libgnomecanvas libglade2 libgnomeui gnome-keyring libgcrypt libgpg- 
> error libsoup nspr gnome-doc-utils iso-codes py25-gobject python25  
> py25-libxml2 py25-numeric gnome-panel gnome-desktop fribidi startup- 
> notification gnome-menus py25-gtk py25-cairo libwnck shared-mime- 
> info gst-plugins-base cdparanoia gstreamer bison m4 flex gzip py25- 
> wxpython wxWidgets libsdl libsdl_mixer libogg libvorbis smpeg  
> liboil libtheora libgnomekbd libxklavier metacity gnome-themes gtk- 
> engines2 icon-naming-utils p5-xml-simple p5-test-simple p5-test- 
> harness p5-xml-namespacesupport p5-xml-sax nautilus eel libexif  
> librsvg libcroco libgsf vte
> Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
>
>
> X seems to installed and working.
>
> Vince McGarry

I assume your using Mac OS10.4.10, yes? Did you down load the latest  
versions of XCODE (2.4.1 I think) and the SDKs and X11 from the apple  
site?  The versions on your DVD may not be current. Mine werent and  
Mac Software Update program does not check on XCODE, X11, SDK etc.....

and what is your ENV look like?