No package 'xf86miscproto' found

[sobitoks]

Please follow the general troubleshooting steps first:

• [ x] Ran brew update and retried your prior step?
• [ x] Ran brew doctor, fixed as many issues as possible and retried your prior step?
• If you're seeing permission errors tried running sudo chown -R $(whoami) $(brew --prefix)?

Bug reports:

I followed the instructions in the README.md
brew tap linuxbrew/xorg
brew install linuxbrew/xorg/xset

This is what I got:

==> Installing xset from linuxbrew/xorg
==> Installing dependencies for linuxbrew/xorg/xset: linuxbrew/xorg/libxxf86misc
==> Installing linuxbrew/xorg/xset dependency: linuxbrew/xorg/libxxf86misc
==> Downloading https://www.x.org/archive/individual/lib/libXxf86misc-1.0.4.tar.gz
Already downloaded: /Users/MYUSER/Library/Caches/Homebrew/downloads/506a91f4f9a54490a764bb071ff221d4b5923ae59b1d0ac4a68f2863782528d8--libXxf86misc-1.0.4.tar.gz
==> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/libxxf86misc/1.0.4 --sysconfdir=/usr/local/etc --localstatedir=/usr/local/var
Last 15 lines from /Users/MYUSER/Library/Logs/Homebrew/libxxf86misc/01.configure:
checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes
checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build static libraries... yes
checking for XXF86MISC... no
configure: error: Package requirements (xproto x11 xextproto xext xf86miscproto) were not met:

No package 'xf86miscproto' found

Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
installed software in a non-standard prefix.

Alternatively, you may set the environment variables XXF86MISC_CFLAGS
and XXF86MISC_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
See the pkg-config man page for more details.

If reporting this issue please do so at (not Homebrew/brew or Homebrew/core):
  https://github.com/Linuxbrew/homebrew-xorg/issues

brew gist-logs xset
Gave me no logs.

This is my first ever issue so I'm sorry if it stinks. I just have no idea where to post this error. Thanks.

[maxim-belkin]

Thanks for the report, Gerard. Are you running it on Linux or Mac?
Could you please try rebuilding pkg-config from source and then try installing xset again? The following should do it:

brew reinstall -s pkg-config
brew install xset

[maxim-belkin]

I can reproduce this bug by attempting to install linuxbrew/xorg/libxxf86misc from source. Let me have a closer look at this.

[sobitoks]

I tried what you suggested

brew reinstall -s pkg-config
brew install xset

but sadly it didn't work either.

I can reproduce this bug by attempting to install linuxbrew/xorg/libxxf86misc from source. Let me have a closer look at this.

Okay, thanks for your time :)

[maxim-belkin]

It looks like xorgproto package has to be built with --enable-legacy flag in order to get missing header files. Here is what you need to do:

1. Uninstall xorgproto:

brew remove linuxbrew/xorg/xorgproto

2. Open xorgproto.rb file for editing:

brew edit linuxbrew/xorg/xorgproto

3. Add --enable-legacy flag to args array in install method.
4. Install xorgproto from source.

brew install -s linuxbrew/xorg/xorgproto

The linking step will fail.
5. Force-link xorgproto

brew link --overwrite xorgproto

6. Build linuxbrew/xorg/libxxf86misc from source:

brew install -s linuxbrew/xorg/libxxf86misc

7. Install xset.

Once done, undo changes to xorgproto formula:

git -C $(brew --repo linuxbrew/xorg) checkout -- Formula/

Let me know if you encounter any issues.

[xlla]

@maxim-belkin thank you! it works.

[sobitoks]

@maxim-belkin sorry I never got back to you. I appreciate the time you took to investigate on the issue. Thank you.