On 07/04/14 09:56, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 9:14 AM, Patrick Powell <papowell@astart.com
> <mailto:papowell@astart.com>> wrote:
>
> I have run into a problem trying to recompile the KDE4 packages with
> WITHOUT_NEW_XORG=YES.
>
> >From the CHANGES file:
> 20140416:
> AFFECTS: users of x11/xorg graphics/dri graphics/libGL and
> related ports
> AUTHOR: x11@FreeBSD.org
>
> The default xorg version has been switched on FreeBSD 10-STABLE and
> FreeBSD 9-STABLE.
>
> To upgrade graphics/libGL, graphics/dri and related MESA ports,
> it is
> necessary to first remove the old versions of those ports.
> No special upgrade procedure is needed for xorg ports but it is
> necessary to recompile all xorg drivers (xf86-*) and other ports
> that
> depend on the xserver version, including
> emulators/virtualbox-ose-additions. Portrevisions have been bumped
> where needed, but users of drivers not in the ports tree will
> need to
> recompile those.
>
> If it is important to stay on the old versions, it is possible to
> specify WITHOUT_NEW_XORG= in /etc/make.conf to get the old xorg
> distribution.
>
>
> My make.conf file:
> WITH_PKGNG=yes
> WITHOUT_NEW_XORG=yes
>
> I did portsnap fetch update, and then did:
>
> #> cd /usr/ports/x11/kde4
> #> make missing >/tmp/missing_files
>
> I massaged the /tmp/missing_files to use pkg to try to download
> a package if it was in the repository. If they were not, I then
> tried to use 'make BATCH=YES install' to compile and install the port.
>
>
> Unfortunately, many ports have been updated with calls to the Mesa
> API that do not exist in the WITHOUT_NEW_XORG version of Mesa. As a
> result, you can no longer build/run recent version of those ports
> WITHOUT_NEW_XORG. KDE is probably the bast known of these.
>
> That leaves two options:
> 1. Move to the new Xorg versions (which may not support some older
> hardware)
> 2. Use an old (and possibly vulnerable) version of KDE
>
> The Xorg and KDE folks simply don't provide any other options that I
> am aware of.
> --
> R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired
> E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com <mailto:rkoberman@gmail.com>
OK, then could they please update the CHANGES file and state that?
And/or put a warning in the UPDATING or CHANGES ports file:
WITHOUT_NEW_XORG option not supported
I appreciate the problems, I was just hoping that there was a trivial
solution to them...
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