gtk2 2.14.7: X11 dependency issues on Tiger

[dbevans (David B. Evans)]

I just upgraded gtk2 from gtk2 @2.14.5_0+darwin_8+x11 to gtk2 @2.14.7_0+darwin_8+x11 on 10.4.11, XCode 2.5 using MacPorts trunk.

The build completed successfully but when running a gtk2 based application (gimp in this case), the program died with the now well known

_X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Cannot connect to non-local host ???D
XIO:  fatal IO error 0 (Unknown error: 0) on X server ":0.0"

error that is described in #17558.

After reviewing the ports dependencies, I manually installed the following ports which were not required nor installed for the previous version of the port

% port installed xorg-libXrandr xorg-libXcursor xorg-libXinerama
The following ports are currently installed:
  xorg-libXcursor @1.1.9_0 (active)
  xorg-libXinerama @1.0.3_0 (active)
  xorg-libXrandr @1.2.3_0 (active)

and then rebuilt the port.

The resulting gtk2 allowed gimp to run properly although the program emits the following non-fatal warning periodically

Xlib:  extension "RANDR" missing on display ":0.0"

when using the default 10.4.11 X11.app server.

Note that I am not using the +system_x11 variant.

Looks like this is the result of the lib style of dependency for these libraries coupled with the fact that gtk2 is apparently the only port that expresses a dependency upon them and they exist in the default Tiger X11 implementation.

% port dependents xorg-libXrandr xorg-libXcursor xorg-libXinerama
gtk2 depends on xorg-libXrandr
gtk2 depends on xorg-libXcursor
gtk2 depends on xorg-libXinerama

The lib dependencies allow the Tiger X11 libraries to satisfy the dependency even though the rest of the X11 libraries come from ${prefix}/lib.

Perhaps the dependencies should be changed to port style in the default +x11 case (use xorg) and changed to lib style only for the +system_x11 case (use Tiger X11).

Assigning to Jeremy as this looks like something in his area of expertise with cc to maintainer

[jeremyhu (Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia)]

more or less... yeah... the problem was that you likely had xorg-libX11 installed on your system when you installed the gtk2 update and then ran into bug #17558

The randr warning is more of a notification than anything else... it just causes gimp to not get told about RANDR events (like your scren size changing).

The dependencies should be changed to port: dependencies, but ALL ports in MacPorts need to have that done at the exact same time, and all need to be revision bumped. See macports-dev for my post a few days ago about this.

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