Building xorg fails

Christoph Kukulies kuku at kukulies.org
Sat May 9 16:21:27 UTC 2020


>> 
>> 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.
> 
> 

OK. thanks. Wasn’t aware of that. Mixed macports up a bit with FreeBSD ports tree, where everything is built from source while
binary package are treated separately by the pkg tool.

All is fine now. 

Thanks a lot for helping and clarification.

—
Christoph



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