Building xorg fails

Christopher Jones jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk
Sat May 9 16:02:50 UTC 2020



> On 9 May 2020, at 4:12 pm, Christoph Kukulies <kuku at kukulies.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>> Am 09.05.2020 um 17:02 schrieb Lenore Horner <LenoreHorner at sbcglobal.net <mailto:LenoreHorner at sbcglobal.net>>:
>> 
>> Try cleaning after uninstalling (although when I recently uninstalled inactive, I think clean happened automatically).  
>> 
>>> On May 9, 2020, at 10:57, Christoph Kukulies <kuku at kukulies.org <mailto:kuku at kukulies.org>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> If you meant update the command line tools I did so now. 
>>> 
>>> How can I rebuild xorg-server (or maybe the whole xorg) now. When doing an uninstall, a subsequent install
>>> is satisfied so quickly that it doesn’t seem anything has been rebuilt at all.
> 
> I did:
> 
> 
> Christophs-MBP:~ kuku$ sudo port  clean xorg-server
> --->  Cleaning xorg-server
> Christophs-MBP:~ kuku$ sudo port uninstall xorg
> --->  Deactivating xorg @20090316_0
> --->  Cleaning xorg
> --->  Uninstalling xorg @20090316_0
> --->  Cleaning xorg
> Christophs-MBP:~ kuku$ sudo port clean xorg-server
> --->  Cleaning xorg-server
> 
> Christophs-MBP:~ kuku$ sudo port install xorg
> --->  Computing dependencies for xorg
> The following dependencies will be installed:  xorg-server
> Continue? [Y/n]: Y
> --->  Fetching archive for xorg-server
> --->  Attempting to fetch xorg-server-1.20.8_0.darwin_19.x86_64.tbz2 from https://packages.macports.org/xorg-server <https://packages.macports.org/xorg-server>
> --->  Attempting to fetch xorg-server-1.20.8_0.darwin_19.x86_64.tbz2.rmd160 from https://packages.macports.org/xorg-server <https://packages.macports.org/xorg-server>
> --->  Installing xorg-server @1.20.8_0
> --->  Activating xorg-server @1.20.8_0
> --->  Cleaning xorg-server
> --->  Fetching archive for xorg
> --->  Attempting to fetch xorg-20090316_0.darwin_19.noarch.tbz2 from https://packages.macports.org/xorg <https://packages.macports.org/xorg>
> --->  Attempting to fetch xorg-20090316_0.darwin_19.noarch.tbz2.rmd160 from https://packages.macports.org/xorg <https://packages.macports.org/xorg>
> --->  Installing xorg @20090316_0
> --->  Activating xorg @20090316_0
> --->  Cleaning xorg
> --->  Scanning binaries for linking errors
> --->  No broken files found.                             
> --->  No broken ports found.
> Christophs-MBP:~ kuku$ 
> 
> I would expect an hour lasting compilation orgy.

Not at all just rebuilding frog-server takes a few minutes not an hour…

sudo port uninstall xorg-server
sudo port -s install xorg-server

-s forces build from source…

However, I fail to see the need for you to build from source…. The binary tarballs are perfectly functional.


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