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Date:      Thu, 8 Jan 1998 19:18:40 -0500 (EST)
From:      Dan Jacobowitz  <drow@drow.net>
To:        Satoshi Asami <asami@cs.berkeley.edu>
Cc:        rone@bofh.noc.best.net, stable@freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: tcl, ports
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980108191719.3240A-100000@mars.abcinternet.net>
In-Reply-To: <199801080007.QAA16564@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>

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On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Satoshi Asami wrote:

>  * ===>  perl-5.00404 : You have an old tcl installation on your machine. Remove everything that matches /usr/*/*tcl* first.
>  * 
>  * That's a pretty bad pattern, since that includes, at the very least,
>  * /usr/ports and /usr/src, and that, according to bsd.port.mk, the only
>  * thing it's specifically complaining about is /usr/include/tcl.h.  
> 
> Well, see if you can get it to match anything in ports or src with
> that pattern.  I've tested it here, you know. :)

Except, for instance, if you have compiled anything whose name contains
tcl in /usr/src.  It seems to me that using that many wildcards in an rm
is just asking for angry admins.

Dan





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