Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 15:23:58 +0700 From: Roger Merritt <mcrogerm@stjohn.ac.th> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: can I reinstall make? Message-ID: <5.2.0.9.0.20040813151253.00a052b0@127.0.0.1>
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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
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