From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 12 16:49:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA27244 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 12 May 1998 16:49:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from the.oneinsane.net (insane@gw.oneinsane.net [207.113.133.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA27200 for ; Tue, 12 May 1998 16:49:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from insane@oneinsane.net) Received: (from insane@localhost) Message-ID: <19980512164906.23503@the.oneinsane.net> Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 16:49:06 -0700 From: "Ron 'The Insane One' Rosson" To: Studded Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: This Haunts Me on some ports References: <19980512105419.36096@the.oneinsane.net> <3558DE9F.CFF3C109@dal.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.74e In-Reply-To: <3558DE9F.CFF3C109@dal.net>; from Studded on Tue, May 12, 1998 at 04:43:27PM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD the.oneinsane.net 2.2.6-STABLE X-Opinion: What you read here is my IMHO X-Disclaimer: I am a firm believer in RTFM Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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