From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 5 10:09:57 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7036D10656E3 for ; Thu, 5 Feb 2009 10:09:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kamikaze@bsdforen.de) Received: from mail.bsdforen.de (bsdforen.de [212.204.60.79]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D9A18FC2A for ; Thu, 5 Feb 2009 10:09:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kamikaze@bsdforen.de) Received: from mobileKamikaze.norad (unknown [92.116.133.19]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.bsdforen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4270F8A0132; Thu, 5 Feb 2009 11:09:28 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <498ABACC.3060102@bsdforen.de> Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 11:09:16 +0100 From: Dominic Fandrey User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090110) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: davidcollins001@gmail.com References: <1b30fd140902050032x20e84ef6oc5030c99e6a62d81@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1b30fd140902050032x20e84ef6oc5030c99e6a62d81@mail.gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: broken ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 10:09:59 -0000 David Collins wrote: > Hi, > > I am not sure if this is better here or in the ports list, but I > thought that since it is something that I have done because I don't > know what I am doing here would be better > > A while ago I installed ports and everything was working fine. > Recently I thought one of my ports was causing my machine to crash so > I uninstalled it, but later found out that the only problem was a poor > wireless network and low diskspace. Trying to reinstall the port > failed at the configure stage. I tried a few others and they also > failed at the same stage. This leads me to believe that it is > something I have done. > > So here is the make install error: > ===> Script "configure" failed unexpectedly.Please report the problem > to kuriyama@FreeBSD.org [maintainer] and attach > the"/usr/ports/textproc/expat2/work/expat-2.0.1/config.log" including > the outputof the failure of your make command. Also, it might be a > good idea to providean overview of all packages installed on your > system (e.g. an `ls/var/db/pkg`). > > I found a post saying to try to compile a test program, so I tried that: > viper:~$ gcc -o hello hello.c > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgcc_s > > So it appears that I have completely screwed the pooch! Is there > anything I can do to fix this? > > Thanks > David Collins I suggest you give us the complete error message. The lines before the one you posted ought to be the most interesting ones.