On Mon, 19 Nov 2007, Andrew Ball wrote:

> $uname -a
> Linux roybook 2.6.15-rc5.ydl.1 #1 Wed Jan 4 16:25:38 EST 2006 ppc ppc
> ppc GNU/Linux
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I find myself unable to build various packages that depend on x11/
> xcursor because that can't seem to find xfixes...

What packages are failing for you?

What are you using for X? (Native with your Linux system? All X from 
pkgsrc?)

What are you using for pkgsrc X11_TYPE?

> ...the closest thing I've found is x11/Xfixes, but that won't build
> for me either...

That is very old and not maintained. I am not sure why it is in pkgsrc.

See pkgsrc/x11/libXfixes/

I am guessing you need to set in your mk.conf file:

X11_TYPE=modular


  Jeremy C. Reed