Dear Justin
Now installing X on DragonFly 3.2 doesn't work! It bails out during the
building of MesaLib with
In file included from mach64_context.c:46:
mach64_context.h:302:22: error: byteswap.h: No such file or directory
This is what I am going to do:
1. have a lie down
2. install a current system without X
3. use, explore, etc
4. experiment with installing X
I live mostly in emacs, and I'm starting to use tmux and mu4e (an email
client for emacs), so 3 will be ok.
For 4 I shall journey through the bsd and xorg forums of the world.
I'll report back once I've got the answers I need.
I shall install freebsd rather than DragonFly. That might give me
access to a broader population for 4.
This Thinkpad x60 is a nice little machine, but it's never had a chance
to shine: it's always had Windows XP or Ubuntu on it, neither of which
are very exciting.
With thanks and best wishes
Ivan
On 17/05/2013 02:35, Justin Sherrill wrote:
On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 11:43 AM, Ivan Uemlianin <[email protected]> wrote:
pkg_delete wouldn't let me :(, still required by modular-xorg-drivers-1.4
You could use the -f option to force the upgrade, but that can lead to
new problems... This is a very strange breakage. I worry that
there's something else going on and the cause is something other than
the 3.4 change - but I have nothing to correlate.
If I were to reinstall version 3.2 (which had X working), could I
investigate this problem while still being able to use the OS? Could I run
3.2 and try to switch in the newer modular-xorg (and switch it out again if
it doesn't work)?
You certainly could - you'd want to install DragonFly 3.2, then pull
down the 2013Q1 branch of pkgsrc. You can do that by modifying
/usr/Makefile in the new install and then using the normal make
commands to retrieve pkgsrc. Just look for everywhere in that file
where it says 2012Q3 or whatever it was and change it to 2013Q1.
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