Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 16:49:06 -0700 From: "Ron 'The Insane One' Rosson" <insane@oneinsane.net> To: Studded <Studded@dal.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: This Haunts Me on some ports Message-ID: <19980512164906.23503@the.oneinsane.net> In-Reply-To: <3558DE9F.CFF3C109@dal.net>; from Studded on Tue, May 12, 1998 at 04:43:27PM -0700 References: <19980512105419.36096@the.oneinsane.net> <3558DE9F.CFF3C109@dal.net>
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Doug, When you have tk8+ and tcl8+ installed along with the older ones and you are not sure which version of the tk/tcl is installed is causing the problem. That is whay I made the statement I said. It should burp out something like this file is version such and such and we need such and such. TIA Ron On Tue, May 12, 1998 at 04:43:27PM -0700, Studded wrote: > Ron 'The Insane One' Rosson wrote: > > > > Ok, > > When compiling some ports I get this error: > > > > You have an old file (/usr/local/lib/tkConfig.sh) that could cause problems for some ports to compile. Please remove it and try again. You may have to reinstall tk from the ports tree afterwards. > > > Does anyone know how to fix this? > > Yes, follow the instructions in the error message. :) Can I ask (and I > am serious about this, because I help write documentation for freebsd) > what is confusing about that message? It says clearly, "Please remove > it and try again." How could we make that more clear? > > As for the details, if you are concerned about keeping that file, I > would move it to a location like your home directory and then try > compiling the port again. It will probably find a few more files you > need to delete, delete or move them and try again. Eventually you will > get it going. :) > > Good luck, > > Doug > > PS, Try to fix your mail program so that it wraps lines at about 75 > columns. Otherwise it is very difficult to read. > > -- > *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** > *** Proud designer and maintainer of the world's largest Internet > *** Relay Chat server with 5,328 simultaneous connections. > *** Try spider.dal.net on ports 6662-4 (Powered by FreeBSD) -- -------------------------------------------------------- Ron Rosson ... and a UNIX user said ... The InSaNe One rm -rf * insane@oneinsane.net and all was null and void -------------------------------------------------------- It's so nice to be insane, nobody asks you to explain. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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