Re: Osabi is obsolete

[Patrick Welche <prlw1%cam.ac.uk@localhost>]

On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 10:50:10PM +0300, Mitt wrote:
> 
> 
> On 12/10/15 19:21, Mitt wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I've recently ran into a problem, to run xinit or startx one must have
> >some libraries and shared libraries from X11R7 (libX11.so.7 for example).
> >Package x11-links provides these libraries but requires osabi. On amd64
> >there is osabi-NetBSD-7.0_RC1 which can't be installed (I use 7.0). What
> >should I do?
> >
> >Thanks and have a good day,
> >
> >Mitt
> Okay, I believe there must be an option to force package version because
> "pkg_add -f" doesn't
> work in this situation (it says osabi doesn't exist if from repository
> and package version error if locally)
> and forcing x11-libs doesn't install anything.
> Maybe I should create the package myself if nobody is interested?
> Because I still can't load X.
> There must be some folks who have amd64 with Xorg...
> Maybe there is another way to overhaul it.

Puzzled: if I run NetBSD with its native Xorg, i.e., install the xbase.tgz
etc., sets, I can run startx/xinit without the need for anything from pkgsrc.

If I use X11_TYPE=modular, and use the X libraries built from pkgsrc, then
I also don't need x11-inks.

If I want to build a pkgsrc package which uses X, I need the x11-links
package, so that pkgsrc can find my native X.

So, I don't understand how startx not running for you relates to x11-links...

Cheers,

Patrick