From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 20 22:23:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA18178 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 20 Jan 1998 22:23:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA18166; Tue, 20 Jan 1998 22:23:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id WAA15807; Tue, 20 Jan 1998 22:22:56 -0800 (PST) To: Alexander Indenbaum cc: asami@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bsd.port.mk is broken In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 21 Jan 1998 03:44:06 +0200." Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 22:22:55 -0800 Message-ID: <15803.885363775@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > 3:30am schneider -> /usr/ports/x11/xbuffy# make > ===> xbuffy-3.3 : You > have an old tcl installation on your machine. > Remove everything that matches /usr/*/*tcl* first. Not to worry - it seems that several people have been making various changes to the ports collection lately which violate the principal of least surprise and generate lots of tech support emails like this. :-) I'd like to see this check backed out, myself. If its intention was to protect the users, it's only confused the piss out of them. I should know because I get many such messages like this in my personal inbox. "What happened? Why is it saying this now? How can I make it stop?" Jordan