A year ago I successfully muddled my way thru Fink, x11 install AND
got Gimp running. Bully for me. My 1st Apple, by the way....

Year later --gave my son the slick Powerbook G4 15" (10.3.7, all
updated...).  Me,  I got a 14" iBook. I MIGRATED (Firewire,
target-drive, etc) my profile, and everything ELSE over to the iBook. 
Did all updates as of 1/17/05, etc.

Of course the only thing that doesn't work anymore is X11, and hence
nothing ELSE in /sw, like Gimp. Which I am enamored of. Ethereal
too....

When I try and launch X11:

dyld: /Applications/Utilities/X11.app/Contents/MacOS/X11 can't open
library: /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.6.dylib  (No such file or directory,
errno = 2

Bummer.   Sure enough, no X11R6 directory in /usr. 

Gak.

I launch my year-old Fink Commander  (runs fine; I ignored the offer
of update), and reel in the xfree86 source fine, *figuring* a
re-install/compile might fix things, but....problems:

Information about 1113 packages read in 4 seconds.
The following package will be installed or updated:
 xfree86
The following additional package will be installed:
 xfree86-shlibs
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 
rm -rf xfree86-4.3.0-14
mkdir -p /sw/src/xfree86-4.3.0-14
bzip2 -dc /sw/src/X430.tar.bz2 | /sw/bin/tar -xf - 
patch -p1 </sw/fink/dists/stable/main/finkinfo/x11-system/xfree86.patch
patching file programs/Xserver/include/Imakefile
patching file programs/xinit/startx.cpp
echo '#define ExtraIncDir      /sw/include'       > config/cf/host.def
 echo '#define EtcX11Directory  ProjectRoot/etc' >> config/cf/host.def
 perl -pi -e 's,/usr/bin/cpp,cpp3,g'                config/cf/darwin.cf
 perl -pi -e 's,/usr/bin/,,g'                       config/cf/darwin.cf
make MAKE=/usr/bin/gnumake World WORLDOPTS=-S
config/util/printver.c:10:19: stdio.h: No such file or directory
make: *** [World] Error 1
### execution of make failed, exit code 2
Failed: compiling xfree86-4.3.0-14 failed

--For the record, I installed XCodeTools 1.5, including Development
Kit, gcc 3.3 (I brain-locked at first, went out and grabbed xfree86
BEFORE I did the XCodeTools 1.5 thing --I had 1.1 prior--;
Fink-commander squawked about gcc 3.3 and THEN I did the XCodeTools
install --just to be honest), MacOSX 10.3SDK, x11SDK.....

I'm sort of at a standstill here; I recall last year struggled with
this as well, (lots of compiling, machine got real warm) can't find my
way back....

Wondering if anyone has any suggestions here.....

/sw is still there.../sw/src/xfree86-4.3.0-14 is there....

My son, he has one real nice laptop at this point. it all works on the
15' Powerbook. Good and decent kid, 24, w/ a *major* challenge in the
year to come. The laptop, it was the least i could do.  'Nuff said.

Me, i'm trying to figure out whether i'm on a slippery slope, w/ the
MIGRATION and all.  I could:

-rm -rf  /sw , start from scratch. Considering I DELETED all x11
directories and did the fink-commander thing, I sorta did this, as in
got RID of all x-directories, started from x-scratch.
-fix the problem  (um...that's why i'm here)
succumb to the sinking feeling a complicated box like mine, a
migration just doesn't cut it, bite the bullet, backup, reinstall
EVERYTHING....
-other?? Am I missing something here? Been reading faq's, etc for HOURS.

thanks in advance....

Eric Lecht


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