Re: Chicken and egg problem after flag day

[Matthieu Herrb <matthieu.herrb@laas.fr>]

Marc Balmer wrote:

> Hi All
> 
> I seem to have a chicken and egg problem here:
> 
> I updated my system to -current as of yesterday.  Now I am rebuilding 
> X11, which requires Tk.  Tk, however, requires X11 which is not yet 
> installed (if I install the port it compiles fine, but it still uses the 
> old (pre-flagday) X11 libs an the Wish shell core dumps when startet).
> 
> Any hints?

As we've advertised here soo many times, use binary snapshots.

Or build X manually in steps. The lazy hack is to just start the build, 
let it fail on xc-old/XF86Setup becuase of the tk dependency, cd 
XF4/xc/lib ; sudo make install. Then build and install tk and restart 
the X build.

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					Matthieu