xorg-server mesa-lib

[Dan Kociela]

Thank you Jean,
That's very helpful. I do have another install and should be able to copy
over.
Thanks again
Dan

On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Jean Bruenn <jean.bruenn at ip-minds.de>wrote:

> Hello Dan,
>
> this is a known problem and reported a few times on IRC already. I was
> dealing with it, but sadly I didn't keep a log for how to solve it. I think
> some dev broke xorg, or something changed in xorg to make this not working.
>
> My bet is, that zbiggy will have an idea on how to fix/solve this.
>
> As I don't have the log anymore how I solved that issue - Please join on
> IRC and ask someone if he/she got the log of "wdp" explaining how to get
> xorg installed on a fresh install, as it's recently broken.
>
> If i remember correct your only chance to get it working right now is to
> get xorg and mesa-lib pre-compiled, i.e. ask someone who got Lunar running
> or, if you got a lunar install take them from there, place them into your
> /var/cache/lunar (or was it /var/spool/lunar?) directory and issue
>
> lin -R xorg-server
> lin -R mesa-lib
>
> That will resurrect both. After that you should be able to recompile both
> (xorg-server and mesa-lib). There's a dependency problem, because
> xorg-server wants GL.h (if i remember correct) which is provided by
> mesa-lib, which is not installed, thus lin tries to install mesa-lib first,
> which fails because xorg-server is not installed, and mesa-lib should be
> installed after xorg-server. So currently only chance to fix that, is to
> have them both installed previously.
>
> Again, above information might not be accurate - please ask someone for
> logs on IRC.
>
> wdp // jean
>
> On Mon, 13 Feb 2012 22:06:26 -0700
> Dan Kociela <dkociela at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > I'm trying to install XOrg7. xorg-server tries to install mesa-lib first,
> > but mesa-lib stops during the configure stage:
> > "checking for XORG... no
> > configure: error: Package requirements (xorg-server >= 1.6.0) were not
> met:
> >
> > No package 'xorg-server' found "
> >
> > what am I missing?
> > Thanks,
> > Dan
>
>
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> Jean Bruenn <jean.bruenn at ip-minds.de>
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