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contents" is out of date. What do I need to do?</a></li><li><a
href="#comp-general.fc-atlas">6.11 Fink Commander hangs when I try to install
atlas.</a></li><li><a href="#comp-general.basic-headers">6.12 I get messages
saying that I'm missing <tt style="white-space: nowrap;">stddef.h</tt>, <tt
style="white-space: nowrap;">wchar.h</tt>, or <tt style="white-space:
nowrap;">crt1.o</tt>, or that my "C compiler cannot create
executables".</a></li><li><a href="#comp-general.multiple-dependencies">6.13 I
can't update, because Fink is "unable to resolve version conflict
on multiple dependencies".</a></li><li><a
href="#comp-general.dpkg-parse-error">6.14 I can't install anything because I
get "dpkg: parse error, in file
`/sw/var/lib/dpkg/status'"!</a></li><li><a
href="#comp-general.freetype-problems">6.15 I get errors involving
freetype.</a></li><li><a href="#comp-general.dlfcn-from-oo">6.16 I get build
errors involving `Dl_info'.</a></li><li><a href="#comp-general.gcc2">6.17 Fink
says I'm missing <tt style="white-space: nowrap;">gcc2</tt> or <tt
style="white-space: nowrap;">gcc3.1</tt> but I can't seem to
- install it.</a></li><li><a href="#comp-general.system-java">6.18 Fink
says <tt style="white-space: nowrap;">Failed: Can't resolve dependency
"system-java14-dev"</tt>, but there's no such package.</a></li><li><a
href="#comp-general.dpkg-split">6.19 When I try to install anything, I get
<q>dpkg (subprocess): failed to exec dpkg-split to see if it's part of a
multiparter: No such file or directory</q>. How do I fix this?</a></li><li><a
href="#comp-general.xml-parser">6.20 I get the following message: <q>configure:
error: XML::Parser perl module is required for intltool</q>. What do I do
about it?</a></li><li><a href="#comp-general.master-problems">6.21 I'm trying
to download a package, but Fink goes to some weird site with <q>distfiles</q>
in its name, and the file isn't there.</a></li><li><a
href="#comp-general.compile-options">6.22 I want Fink to use different options
in building a package.</a></li></ul></li><li><a href="#comp-packages"><b>7
Compile Problems - Speci
fic Packages</b></a><ul><li><a href="#comp-packages.libgtop">7.1 A package
fails to build with errors involving
+ install it.</a></li><li><a href="#comp-general.system-java">6.18 Fink
says <tt style="white-space: nowrap;">Failed: Can't resolve dependency
"system-java14-dev"</tt>, but there's no such package.</a></li><li><a
href="#comp-general.dpkg-split">6.19 When I try to install anything, I get
<q>dpkg (subprocess): failed to exec dpkg-split to see if it's part of a
multiparter: No such file or directory</q>. How do I fix this?</a></li><li><a
href="#comp-general.xml-parser">6.20 I get the following message: <q>configure:
error: XML::Parser perl module is required for intltool</q>. What do I do
about it?</a></li><li><a href="#comp-general.master-problems">6.21 I'm trying
to download a package, but Fink goes to some weird site with <q>distfiles</q>
in its name, and the file isn't there.</a></li><li><a
href="#comp-general.compile-options">6.22 I want Fink to use different options
in building a package.</a></li><li><a href="#comp-general.gettext">6.23
Whenever I try to build fro
m source, Fink keeps waffling between <tt style="white-space:
nowrap;">gettext-dev</tt> and <tt style="white-space:
nowrap;">libgettext3-dev</tt>.</a></li><li><a
href="#comp-general.python-mods">6.24 I get errors involving <tt
style="white-space: nowrap;">MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET </tt>when I try to build
a Python module.</a></li></ul></li><li><a href="#comp-packages"><b>7 Compile
Problems - Specific Packages</b></a><ul><li><a
href="#comp-packages.libgtop">7.1 A package fails to build with errors involving
<tt style="white-space: nowrap;">sed</tt>.</a></li><li><a
href="#comp-packages.cant-install-xfree">7.2 I want to switch to Fink's XFree86
packages, but I can't install
<tt style="white-space: nowrap;">xfree86-base</tt> | <tt
style="white-space: nowrap;">xfree86</tt>, because it conflicts
with <tt style="white-space:
nowrap;">system-xfree86</tt>.</a></li><li><a
href="#comp-packages.change-thread-nothread">7.3 How do I change from the
non-threaded version of Fink's XFree86
@@ -967,6 +967,21 @@
<div class="answer"><p><b>A:</b> The first thing to do is to contact the
package maintainer to request a variant. It may be relatively easy to do it.
If you don't hear from the maintainer or see the new packages, or want to try a
different option yourself, check out the <a
href="http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/quick-start-pkg/index.php";>Packaging
Tutorial</a> and <a
href="http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/packaging/index.php";>Packaging
Manual</a>.</p><p>
<b>Note: </b>Fink is deliberately set up such that all official
binaries are identical regardless of what machine they are built on, so things
like G5 optimization won't happen with an official package. If you want them,
you'll have to do it yourself.</p></div>
</a>
+ <a name="comp-general.gettext">
+ <div class="question"><p><b>Q6.23: Whenever I try to build from source,
Fink keeps waffling between <tt style="white-space: nowrap;">gettext-dev</tt>
and <tt style="white-space: nowrap;">libgettext3-dev</tt>.</b></p></div>
+ <div class="answer"><p><b>A:</b> Some packages that need <tt
style="white-space: nowrap;">gettext</tt> headers to build have been updated to
use <tt style="white-space: nowrap;">libgettext3-dev</tt> and some still use
<tt style="white-space: nowrap;">gettext-dev</tt>. Consequently, Fink may try
to switch to whichever one isn't currently installed in order to satisfy a
build dependency for some package that you're trying to update. In addition,
the <tt style="white-space: nowrap;">fink </tt>tool treats <tt
style="white-space: nowrap;">gettext-dev</tt> as essential, and will install it
any time you selfupdate.</p><p>Similar behavior can happen for other pairs of
packages, too. </p><p>Unfortunately, due to limitations in the build-dependency
engine, you may find that your build bombs because you've swapped in one of
these but some later package in your build chain wants the other one. You can
proceed by repeating your update command again.</p><p>A permanent fix should
hopefully be available in <tt style="white-space:
nowrap;">fink-0.2.5</tt>.</p></div>
+ </a>
+ <a name="comp-general.python-mods">
+ <div class="question"><p><b>Q6.24: I get errors involving <tt
style="white-space: nowrap;">MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET </tt>when I try to build
a Python module.</b></p></div>
+ <div class="answer"><p><b>A:</b> For errors that look like the
following:</p><pre>running build
+running build_ext
+Traceback (most recent call last):
+ File "setup_socket_ssl.py", line 21, in ?
+ depends = ['socketmodule.h'] )
+ File "/sw/src/root-python24-2.4.1-1/sw/lib/python2.4/distutils/core.py",
line 166, in setup
+SystemExit: error: $MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET mismatch: now "10.4" but "10.3"
during configure
+### execution of /sw/bin/python2.4 failed, exit code 1</pre><p>the problem
occurs because the <tt style="white-space: nowrap;">python2*</tt> packages
write the current <tt style="white-space:
nowrap;">MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET</tt> to a configuration file when they're
built and the python build utilities use this value when compiling modules.
This means that if you have, for example, a <tt style="white-space:
nowrap;">python24</tt> package on 10.4 that was built on 10.3, either by
upgrading 10.3 => 10.4, or via the <b>10.4-transitional</b> binary
distribution, in which <tt style="white-space: nowrap;">python24</tt> wasn't
rebuilt, there will be a mismatch between what python thinks <tt
style="white-space: nowrap;">MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET</tt> should be (10.3) and
what it actually is (10.4).</p><p>The fix is to rebuild the offending <tt
style="white-space: nowrap;">python</tt> package, e.g. <tt style="white-space:
nowrap;">fink rebuild python24</tt> for the case above.</p>
</div>
+ </a>
<h2><a name="comp-packages">7 Compile Problems - Specific Packages</a></h2>
@@ -1473,4 +1488,4 @@
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