Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 09:01:40 -0500 From: Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Best way to fix a Bad Mistake Message-ID: <E15FFsz-0002Rs-00@dc.cis.okstate.edu>
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I started to install expect-5.3x from /usr/ports/lang/expect and got to the following fatal discovery: ===> Configuring for expect-5.32.1 configuring Expect 5.32.1 checking for autoconf... yes checking configure up to date... yes checking host system type... i386--freebsd4.3 checking target system type... i386--freebsd4.3 checking build system type... i386--freebsd4.3 checking shell to use within Make... checking for gcc... cc checking whether the C compiler (cc -O -pipe ) works... yes checking whether the C compiler (cc -O -pipe ) is a cross-compiler... no checking whether we are using GNU C... yes checking whether cc accepts -g... yes checking for building with threads... no (default) checking for Tcl configuration... found /usr/local/lib/tcl8.3/tclConfig.sh checking Tcl build library... -L/usr/ports/lang/tcl83/work/tcl8.3.3/unix -ltcl83 -lm checking for Tcl_CreateCommand... yes checking if Tcl library build specification is valid... yes checking for Tk configuration... configure: error: /usr/local/lib/tk8.3 directory doesn't contain tkConfig.sh ===> Script "configure" failed: here are the contents of "config.log" This is a new system that was begun using one of the freebsd image CDROM's for freebsd-4.3. Someone hit the wrong button when we started the system build and we sucked in a ton of things we didn't want such as X windows support and support for a number of languages we don't use here. Then, the system crashed some time during the install so some tasks did not complete. We seem to have a working base system as I have been able to install lots of packages and they work. Is there a good way to repair what is broken without starting from scratch and rebuilding the system from the ground up? This is my first freebsd installation and I am quite impressed with how it all works, but I figure what I will learn from this mistake will be helpful on the next freebsd system. Of course, it would have been much better if we had ended up with the base system and no X or non-English language support. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK OSU Center for Computing and Information Services Data Communications Group To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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