From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 18 20:17:03 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 0AC4216A4CE for ; Tue, 18 May 2004 20:17:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web42001.mail.yahoo.com (web42001.mail.yahoo.com [66.218.93.169]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C576B43D4C for ; Tue, 18 May 2004 20:17:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hewbert007@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20040519031630.1679.qmail@web42001.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [65.168.153.170] by web42001.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 18 May 2004 20:16:30 PDT Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 20:16:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Joshua Beard To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Perl (5.6 or 5.8) fails to install 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: Wed, 19 May 2004 03:17:03 -0000 Hi, I'm having an issue installing Perl from ports (both 5.6 and 5.8 - same issue). It seems like something is passing unknown flags to the "Configure" script used to configure the perl build: ===> Configuring for perl-5.6.1_15 Configure: unknown option --localstatedir=/usr/local/share/gnome Configure: unknown option --datadir=/usr/local/share/gnome Configure: unknown option --with-html-dir=/usr/local/share/doc Configure: unknown option --disable-gtk-doc Configure: unknown option --with-gconf-source=xml::/usr/local/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults Usage: Configure [-dehrsEKOSV] [-f config.sh] [-D symbol] [-D symbol=value] ** -- snip Configure usage -- ** ===> Script "Configure" failed unexpectedly. This is on FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p4, freshly cvsup'd I encountered this while trying to figure out why `portsdb -Uu` was failing to update the index, which is another issue, I think. Upon trying to update the index, it would coredump towards the very end. I then ran `pkgdb -fu`, and then got a generic "failed to generate INDEX!" error, and tty1 shows a bunch of "out of swap" messages. Any ideas on either/both of these issues (Perl's build failure and my inability to generate an updated INDEX?) Thanks in advance. ===== -- Joshua Beard josh@hewbert.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! - Internet access at a great low price. http://promo.yahoo.com/sbc/