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Re: [Fink-users] gnuplot not working on Snow Leopard

Alexander Hansen
Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:50:02 -0800

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Walt Mankowski wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 08:48:51AM +0100, Martin Costabel wrote:
>> Chupacerveza wrote:
>> []
>>> Glad that worked Walt. For what it's worth, these problems don't happen 
>>> with a "clean" fink installation on Snow Leopard. I'm not suggesting 
>>> that there's anything wrong with trying to upgrade fink in place from 
>>> Leopard to Snow Leopard because many people have it done it, but it 
>>> might be a lot less heartache to remove it and start fresh in some cases.
>> I fully agree, but in the case at hand, the problem looks more like an 
>> attempted upgrade from Tiger to Snow Leopard, which is not supported at 
>> all and never was. The library /usr/X11R6/lib/libexpat.0.dylib does not 
>> exist on Leopard either. It was last seen in Tiger's X11Update2006.pkg 3 
>> years ago.
> 
> That's only partially true.  I upgraded from Tiger to Leopard, ran on
> Leopard for a while, and then later from Leopard to Snow Leopard.
> Both of those paths ARE supported.
> 
> It's a tricky call, whether to upgrade or do a clean install.  I've
> got over 400 packages installed, and rebuilding all of them would take
> quite a while.  On the other hand, I just spent the better part of the
> day debugging this problem.  And svn's broken, too, for something that
> may or may not be related to the upgrade.
> 
> Walt
> 
> 

I'd classify this issue as a problem with the wxgtk2.8 package.  We
normally _don't_ link to system-provided libraries if there's a Fink
package for them, for this very reason--Fink's libraries can be kept in
sync across OS versions.

We've no way to see what's going on with your svn without actually
seeing some output.  Start a new thread on that.
- --
Alexander Hansen
Fink User Liaison
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