security/gorilla is broken by lang/itcl update

Chris Rees utisoft at gmail.com
Thu Jul 8 16:25:48 UTC 2010


On 7 July 2010 07:58, Stefan Walter <stefan at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> J. Porter Clark, 07.07.10, 04:37h CEST:
>
>> A recent revision of lang/itcl has apparently broken
>> security/gorilla, which now pops up a window which says:
>>
>>   The Password Gorilla requires the
>>   [incr Tcl] add-on to Tcl. Please install
>>   the [incr Tcl] package.
>>
>> I've tried reinstalling itcl and everything else tcl- and
>> tk-related, to no avail.  I don't know tcl and can't begin to
>> fix it myself.  Any advice?
>
> there's an update to security/gorilla in ports/147833 (see [1]). I don't
> know if there's a problem with it or when miwi (cc'd) is going to commit
> it. Maybe it fixes your problem.
>
> There's also a second PR for security/gorilla in ports/148388 (see [2])
> which seems to reference the problem you described.
>
> Regards,
> Stefan
>
> [1]: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/147833
> [2]: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/148388

It should fix the problem; Gorilla used to use wish from Tcl/Tk 8.4,
which didn't play ball with itcl.

Try my patch in ports/147833 (above)

Chris


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