From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 8 04:27:02 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C7B816A4CF; Sun, 8 Feb 2004 04:27:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.des.no (flood.des.no [217.116.83.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0F6C43D1D; Sun, 8 Feb 2004 04:27:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: by smtp.des.no (Pony Express, from userid 666) id 947F15311; Sun, 8 Feb 2004 13:27:00 +0100 (CET) Received: from dwp.des.no (des.no [80.203.228.37]) by smtp.des.no (Pony Express) with ESMTP id AF82F530D; Sun, 8 Feb 2004 13:26:52 +0100 (CET) Received: by dwp.des.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id 45ED333C6F; Sun, 8 Feb 2004 13:26:52 +0100 (CET) To: dom@happygiraffe.net (Dominic Mitchell) References: <1075880955.76993.54.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20040205185355.GA92331@eeyore.local.dohd.org> <20040206133401.GA53303@xor.obsecurity.org> <20040207114142.GA92548@ppe.happygiraffe.net> From: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2004 13:26:52 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20040207114142.GA92548@ppe.happygiraffe.net> (Dominic Mitchell's message of "Sat, 7 Feb 2004 11:41:43 +0000") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.090024 (Oort Gnus v0.24) Emacs/21.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on flood.des.no X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=no version=2.63 cc: ports@freebsd.org cc: Mark Huizer cc: current@freebsd.org cc: Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: HEADS UP: MAJOR changes to the ports system X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2004 12:27:02 -0000 dom@happygiraffe.net (Dominic Mitchell) writes: > There's a couple of other bits that need upgrading along with Perl. The > on that bit me last time was autoconf (or automake; can't remember). > Every port that used autoconf failed with "can't find file", even though > autoconf was present. A closer look showed that the hashbang line was > pointing at the old no-longer-present Perl. that's why autoconf and automake register themselves as requiring perl, and pkg_delete won't allow you to deinstall perl without first deinstalling autoconf and automake, unless you force it to. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no