From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 13 08:26:08 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3614116A4CE for ; Fri, 13 Aug 2004 08:26:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: from stjohn.stjohn.ac.th (stjohn.stjohn.ac.th [202.21.144.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D96243D49 for ; Fri, 13 Aug 2004 08:26:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mcrogerm@stjohn.ac.th) Received: from tulip.stjohn.ac.th ([203.151.134.104]) by stjohn.stjohn.ac.th (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA09374 for ; Fri, 13 Aug 2004 15:23:09 +0700 (ICT) Message-Id: <5.2.0.9.0.20040813151253.00a052b0@127.0.0.1> X-Sender: stjohn.stjohn.ac.th:mcrogerm@127.0.0.1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.0.9 Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 15:23:58 +0700 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Roger Merritt Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Subject: can I reinstall make? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 08:26:08 -0000 I think the 'make' program on one of my machines (running FreeBSD 4.10) has gotten farkled. I made the mistake of running 'portupgrade -a' and now the whole system is a mess -- among other things it uninstalled my 'perl 5.8.5'. Actually, it uninstalled a lot of things and then quit on an error without reinstalling them. Luckily none of the things are things I use every day. When I ran 'portversion -c > needs.update' it told me I needed to upgrade both 'autoconf' and 'automake', so I switched to /usr/ports and ran: root@kepler:/usr/ports# make search name="autoconf" Missing }. root@kepler:/usr/ports# make search name="automake" Missing }. root@kepler:/usr/ports# cd devel/autoconf253 root@kepler:/usr/ports/devel/autoconf253# make install clean Missing }. root@kepler:/usr/ports/devel/autoconf253# cd ../../lang/perl5.8 root@kepler:/usr/ports/lang/perl5.8# make deinstall Missing }. This doesn't look good. At the moment the machine is still fulfilling its main function as a gateway to the Internet for the Windows machines in our student computer lab, but I fear for the future. How can I be sure the problem is really with 'make' and how can I fix the problem if it is? -- Roger