Re: RE: [Xpert]FreeBSD 5.0 XFree86 4_2_1 source anyone?

Thanks for the many advices received.
I tried the ports (including -4), and it didn't work either.
Finally I make clean and pkg_delete -f X and all things referenced by it.
I simply used pkg_add and with some amount of configuration I got it 
working!
(Basically same concept as ports, except I found out the two produce 
vastly different directory structures in the case of XFree86.)
I attribute my problem to incompatible header files and libraries, even 
when using ports.
(Residue of older 5.0PR1, 5.0RC, and 4_2_1, then ports, then...)

Gilbert

John Baldwin wrote:

>On 31-Dec-2002 [email protected] wrote:
>
>>I've cvsup RELENG_5_0 yesterday, make kernel, make world.
>>Then I've cvsup xf-4_2_1 into another source directory, make World, make
>>install.
>>make World gave warnings of no big big integers, but completed.
>>make install failed because the FreeBSD.cf supplied apparently called for
>>ansic.inc version that's different.
>>[all names above I recall from memory, maybe slightly off..]
>>
>>Question: anyone has include file or source or patch or instruction to
>>make above combination work?
>>I'm guessing it's because 5.0 uses gcc 3.2.1 and not 2.9 anymore, and
>>include files changed...
>>
>>If above combination is not good, any suggestions?  I'm starting off with
>>a new hard drive, though I'm sort of committed now using FreeBSD 5.0.  (I
>>also have it dual boot to Windows and Linux.)  As came with the cvsup,
>>the ports supplied is Xfree86 3.3.6...
>>
>
>If you go to /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4, you can build X 4.2.1 from source
>that way and it should work fine.  That's how I build X on my laptop running
>FreeBSD-current.
>