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@@ -452,9 +452,7 @@
of <tt style="white-space: nowrap;">pathsetup.sh</tt>. Alternately,
you can run
the <tt style="white-space: nowrap;">pathsetup.app</tt> application on
the Fink
binary distribution disk image.</p><p>On the other hand, if you only
have problems in the Apple X11
- terminal, this probably means that you need to create a <a
href="http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/x11/run-xfree86.php#xinitrc";>.xinitrc</a>
- file and add the line</p><pre>. /sw/bin/init.sh</pre><p>near the
beginning (i.e. before any programs get run). Restart X11
- (if running) after you do this.</p><p>These <tt style="white-space:
nowrap;">/sw/bin/init.*</tt> scripts do much
+ terminal, the easy solution is to modify the "Terminal" entry in the
X11 Application menu via the <b>Applications->Customize Menu... </b>option.
Instead of just</p><pre>xterm</pre><p>change the command field to
read</p><pre>xterm -ls</pre><p><tt style="white-space: nowrap;">ls</tt> here
means <q>login shell</q>, and the result is that your full login setup gets
used (just like the OS X Terminal).</p><p>These <tt style="white-space:
nowrap;">/sw/bin/init.*</tt> scripts do much
more than just add <tt style="white-space: nowrap;">/sw/bin</tt> to
your PATH.
Many packages will not work correctly without these additional
actions.</p></div>
@@ -1440,7 +1438,7 @@
</li>
<li>
<b>You are installing from source:</b>
- <p>If you have a current version of <tt style="white-space:
nowrap;">fink</tt>, then typically this error means that you need to
(re)install the X11SDK, which is <b>mandatory</b> if you want to build packages
from source. It is on the Xcode CD, and is <b>not</b> installed by default.
Even if you install XCode, the X11SDK is <b>not</b> installed by default. It
has to be installed either with a custom Xcode install, or by clicking on the
X11SDK pkg in the <tt style="white-space: nowrap;">Packages</tt> folder of the
XCode CD.</p>
+ <p>If you have a current version of <tt style="white-space:
nowrap;">fink</tt>, then typically this error means that you need to
(re)install the X11SDK, which is <b>mandatory</b> if you want to build packages
from source. It is on the Panther Xcode CD or in the XCode Tools folder of a
TIger DVD, and is <b>not</b> installed by default when you install XCode on
Panther--it has to be installed either with a custom Xcode install, or by
clicking on the <tt style="white-space: nowrap;">X11SDK pkg</tt> icon in the
<tt style="white-space: nowrap;">Packages</tt> folder of the XCode CD. It <b>
is</b>, on the other hand, installed by default when you install Xcode on Tiger
(even if X11User isn't present), but it's still possible for the Installer
program to miss a file. </p><p>If your computer didn't come with XCode media,
then a disk image for it, containing <tt style="white-space:
nowrap;">X11SDK.pkg</tt> among other things, is quite likely present on your
computer somewhere--
check for a directory like <tt style="white-space: nowrap;">
/Applications/Installers </tt> for an XCode disk image. <tt
style="white-space: nowrap;">X11User.pkg</tt> may be present in that directory
as well. </p>
<p>If you are still having problems, run </p>
<pre>fink list -i system-xfree86 </pre>
<p>It should show the <tt style="white-space:
nowrap;">system-xfree86</tt>, <tt style="white-space:
nowrap;">system-xfree86-shlibs</tt>, and <tt style="white-space:
nowrap;">system-xfree86-dev</tt> packages as installed. If the <tt
style="white-space: nowrap;">-dev</tt> package is missing, reinstall the
X11SDK, since sometimes the Apple Installer misses a file. You may need to
keep doing this. If either of the other two are missing, then reinstall the
X11User package (same reason).</p>
@@ -1480,7 +1478,7 @@
<a name="usage-packages.tiger-gtk">
<div class="question"><p><b>Q9.14: After updating to Tiger (OS 10.4),
whenever I use a GTK app, I get errors involving <tt style="white-space:
nowrap;">_EVP_idea_cbc</tt>.</b></p></div>
<div class="answer"><p><b>A:</b> This is caused by an apparent bug in
Tiger's dynamic linker (current as of 10.4.1). You can work around this via
prefixing the the name of you want as follows:
-</p><pre>env DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH=: </pre><p>E.g., if you want to use
<tt style="white-space: nowrap;">gnucash</tt>, you'd use</p><pre>env
DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH=: gnucash</pre><p>This method works for applications
that are launched via the Application Menu in Apple's X11 as well as a
terminal.</p></div>
+</p><pre>env DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH=: </pre><p>E.g., if you want to use
<tt style="white-space: nowrap;">gnucash</tt>, you'd use</p><pre>env
DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH=: gnucash</pre><p>This method works for applications
that are launched via the Application Menu in Apple's X11 as well as a
terminal.</p><p>You may find it preferable to set this globally (e.g. in your
startup script, and/or in your <tt style="white-space: nowrap;">.xinitrc</tt> ,
which you may need to do to run GNOME). Put</p><pre>export
DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH=:</pre><p>in your <tt style="white-space:
nowrap;">.xinitrc</tt> (regardless of your login shell) or your <tt
style="white-space: nowrap;">.profile</tt> (or other startup script) for
<b>bash</b> users and:</p><pre>setenv DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH :</pre><p>is
the corresponding command to use in e.g. your <tt style="white-space:
nowrap;">.cshrc</tt> file for <b>tcsh</b> users.</p></div>
</a>
<hr><h2>Copyright Notice</h2><p>Copyright (c) 2001 Christoph Pfisterer,
Copyright (c) 2001-2005 The Fink Project.
@@ -1488,4 +1486,4 @@
provided the document and this copyright notice remain complete and
unmodified. Any commercial reproduction and any online publication
requires the explicit consent of the author.</p><hr>
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