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Date:      Wed, 27 Jun 2001 12:05:08 -0600
From:      Chris Moline <ugly-daemon@home.com>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Best way to fix a Bad Mistake
Message-ID:  <20010627120508.A27175@h24-67-61-12.lb.shawcable.net>
In-Reply-To: <E15FI6b-0006vS-00@dc.cis.okstate.edu>; from martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu on Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 11:23:53AM -0500
References:  <E15FI6b-0006vS-00@dc.cis.okstate.edu>

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On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 11:23:53AM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote:
> 	The next attempt to install expect went much farther but
> still failed.  I went to /usr/ports/lang/expect, did a make clean
> and even a make distclean so it pulled in the expect distribution
> file from the network.
Did you do a make deinstall??

> 
> 	I then did a make and everything looked nice for quite a
> while.
> 
> ===>  Extracting for expect-5.32.1
> >> Checksum OK for expect.tar.gz.
> ===>   expect-5.32.1 depends on shared library: tk83.1 - not found
> ===>    Verifying install for tk83.1 in /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/tk83
> ===>  Extracting for tk-8.3.3
> >> Checksum OK for tk8.3.3.tar.gz.
> ===>   tk-8.3.3 depends on shared library: tcl83.1 - found
> ===>   tk-8.3.3 depends on shared library: X11.6 - not found
> ===>    Verifying install for X11.6 in /usr/ports/x11/XFree86
>      >> No directory for X11.6.  Skipping..
Sounds like you have an incomplete tree. try cvsupping a new one but make sure you edit the config file and enable it.

> 
> 	That is probably the beginning of the end right there,
> but the process went on for some time more until I started
> getting lots of errors like:
> 
> /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/tk83/work/tk8.3.3/unix/../generic/tk3d.c:108: 
> structure has no member named `display'
Possibly related to not having the X stuff from above.

> 
> 	That's usually a very bad sign.:-)  I do not want X on
> this system, but pieces of it ended up on here and some
> directories got deleted or otherwise chewed up between the crash
> that stopped the original installation and my bungling before I
> learned about proper ways to install and delete packages.
> 
> 	Can expect run without X in this distribution?  Or have I
> got the autoconfigure script confused because there is some X
> stuff sitting around that shouldn't be here unless I am really
> running X windows?
> 
> 	If I need X to install expect, will the version of expect
> I get run in normal command line mode?
expect is a tcl/tk extension and requires X. But I do believe you can run it in console and as scripts.

Hope I have helped,
Chris Moline

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