[Fink-users] fontconfig, and finding packages

[Nathaniel Echols]

I tried updating fink ("fink selfupdate" followed by "fink update-all") for
the first time in a few weeks, and it promptly failed on gtk+2-2.16.6-2:

grep: /sw/lib/fontconfig2/lib/libfontconfig.la: No such file or directory
sed: /sw/lib/fontconfig2/lib/libfontconfig.la: No such file or directory
libtool: link: `/sw/lib/fontconfig2/lib/libfontconfig.la' is not a valid
libtool archive

I have no idea which package this is part of, but "fink reinstall
fontconfig2-shlibs" definitely did not fix the problem.  This is not the
first time I've seen errors like this, and I still have no idea how to fix
it other than wiping out all the files I find with references
to /sw/lib/fontconfig2/lib/libfontconfig.la.  (In this case, there are
multiple files in /sw/lib that refer to it.)  What is breaking?

Second, a feature request: when I run a command like "fink install
fontconfig", if the package is not found could it please print something
more helpful than "no package found for specification 'fontconfig'"?  There
is obviously a package somewhere that does have fontconfig in the name
(Google turned up several, in fact, and I can't tell the difference).  Even
just accepting wildcards (e.g. "fink install fontconfig*") the way apt-get
does would be helpful.

thanks,
Nat

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