From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 27 7:14:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.pace.edu (ntutil.pace.edu [205.232.111.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A54237B407 for ; Wed, 27 Jun 2001 07:14:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from js43064n@pace.edu) Received: from stmail.pace.edu (205.232.111.7:2296) by smtp.pace.edu (LSMTP for Windows NT v1.1b) with SMTP id <0.A8A7D505@smtp.pace.edu>; Wed, 27 Jun 2001 10:14:10 -0400 Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 10:14:07 -0400 Message-Id: <200106271014.AA97845312@stmail.pace.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: "Jonathan Slivko" Reply-To: X-Sender: To: , Martin McCormick Subject: Re: Best way to fix a Bad Mistake X-Mailer: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Yes, there is. cd in to that directory where the port is and then do a make clean and then a make distclean. That should remove the port from your system, and should leave nothing left. Then, all you have to do is just try installing the package. HTH, -- Jonathan _____________________________________________ Jonathan M. Slivko Technical Support, Black Lotus Communications web: http://www.jmslivko.org/ (personal) web: http://www.blacklotus.net/ (work) _____________________________________________ ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Martin McCormick Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 09:01:40 -0500 > I started to install expect-5.3x from >/usr/ports/lang/expect and got to the following fatal discovery: > >===> Configuring for expect-5.32.1 >configuring Expect 5.32.1 >checking for autoconf... yes >checking configure up to date... yes >checking host system type... i386--freebsd4.3 >checking target system type... i386--freebsd4.3 >checking build system type... i386--freebsd4.3 >checking shell to use within Make... >checking for gcc... cc >checking whether the C compiler (cc -O -pipe ) works... yes >checking whether the C compiler (cc -O -pipe ) is a cross-compiler... no >checking whether we are using GNU C... yes >checking whether cc accepts -g... yes >checking for building with threads... no (default) >checking for Tcl configuration... found /usr/local/lib/tcl8.3/tclConfig.sh >checking Tcl build library... -L/usr/ports/lang/tcl83/work/tcl8.3.3/unix -ltcl83 -lm >checking for Tcl_CreateCommand... yes >checking if Tcl library build specification is valid... yes >checking for Tk configuration... configure: error: >/usr/local/lib/tk8.3 directory doesn't contain tkConfig.sh >===> Script "configure" failed: here are the contents of "config.log" > > This is a new system that was begun using one of the >freebsd image CDROM's for freebsd-4.3. Someone hit the wrong >button when we started the system build and we sucked in a ton of >things we didn't want such as X windows support and support for a >number of languages we don't use here. > > Then, the system crashed some time during the install so >some tasks did not complete. We seem to have a working base >system as I have been able to install lots of packages and they >work. > > Is there a good way to repair what is broken without >starting from scratch and rebuilding the system from the ground >up? > > This is my first freebsd installation and I am quite >impressed with how it all works, but I figure what I will learn >from this mistake will be helpful on the next freebsd system. Of >course, it would have been much better if we had ended up with >the base system and no X or non-English language support. > > >Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK >OSU Center for Computing and Information Services Data Communications Group > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > __________________________________________________________________ ____ Sent via the Pace University Mail system at stmail.pace.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message