Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 11:09:16 +0100 From: Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de> To: davidcollins001@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: broken ports Message-ID: <498ABACC.3060102@bsdforen.de> In-Reply-To: <1b30fd140902050032x20e84ef6oc5030c99e6a62d81@mail.gmail.com>
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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.home | help
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