Subject: Re: Need a fix for xfixes...
To: None <pkgsrc-users@netbsd.org>
From: Andrew Ball <aball@students.prairiestate.edu>
List: pkgsrc-users
Date: 11/19/2007 18:20:28
Hello Jeremy,

  JCR> You could probably use the default X11_TYPE=native -- but you
     > may need the many X development headers packages installed too.

Can I get those through pkgsrc?

  JCR> 1) What specific package did you have trouble with? (Please
     >    don't say xcursor or Xfixes or libXfixes but the application
     >    you wanted.)

The most recent example that springs to mind is emulators/hatari

  JCR 2) Remove your X11_TYPE or change it to "native".

I changed it to "native".

  JCR> 4) make -- and let us know more details about the errors.

    .
    :
    checking XRENDER_LIBS... -Wl,-R/usr/pkg/lib -Wl,-R/usr/X11R6/lib
    -L/usr/pkg/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lXrender -lX11
    checking for xfixes... Package xfixes was not found in the pkg-
    config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory
    containing `xfixes.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
    No package 'xfixes' found
    configure: error: Library requirements (xfixes) not met; consider
    adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if your
    libraries are in a nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find them.

    *** Error code 1
    :
    .

Please let me know if you need more context, or would like a full
transcript of the failed build attempt.

Thanks,
  - Andy Ball.