> David Wolfskill wrote: >> On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 04:38:02PM +0200, Jan Henrik Sylvester wrote: >>> ... >>>>> ImageMagick fails to build for me. I guess it is because I do the >>>>> build as root while a different user "owns the display". (I do >>>>> use kdm for login and start the build after su in a Konsole.) >>>> Built just fine for me, about an hour ago, on -CURRENT with no >>>> KDE involved. OPTIONS screen worked fine. >>> Thanks. As I said, I tried to build with root while root was not >>> allowed >>> to use the display. Granting root access with 'xhost +local:' or >>> 'setenv >>> XAUTHORITY /usr/home/USER/.Xauthority' fixes the problem. Having to do >>> that was kind of unexpected for me... > >> In any case, I saw no evidence that the build of ImageMagick even needed >> to be run within an X11 environment. Examining the output from >> script(1) for the upgrade of ImageMagick shows no instances of the >> string "DISPLAY," for example. (The string "display" shows up, as the >> name of one of the programs in the ImageMagick suite.) > > My experience was that ImageMagick did build, but it also put up a > little window with a message on it. So my feeling is that the OP is > correct, and that at least on some versions of FreeBSD (in my case 7.0) > that access to an X11 environment is required for the port to install. > > _______________________________________________
ImageMagick port does not require X to build for the user that is building it. Sounds like either your ports is corrupted or something deeper on your system is causing this issue. _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
