file delete -force not deleting everything

[Blair Zajac]

Mike Alexander wrote:
> --On February 10, 2007 9:48:58 PM -0500 Kevin Ballard 
> <eridius at macports.org> wrote:
> 
>> file delete is a built-in Tcl command - do a `man n file` to see it.
>>
>> And yeah, it definitely should work.
>>
>> On Feb 10, 2007, at 8:33 PM, Blair Zajac wrote:
>>
>>> Has anybody seen anything like this before?
>>>
>>> Is the "file delete" an operation provided by Tcl?
>>>
>>> It's odd that it would go through and try to delete everything, but
>>> not finish the job.
>>>
>>> I'm tempted to change the "file delete -force" into a system "rm -
>>> fr ..." call.
> 
> "file delete -force" is broken in some versions of TCL on MacOSX.  See 
> <http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/Tcl-bugs/2838168> and 
> <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107884>.
> 

Thanks for all the info.

I've updated the db44 Portfile and it builds fine on 10.3.

Maybe we should do a global search and replace for all the Portfile's.

Regards,
Blair