Re: [Fink-devel] New packages in tracker

2008-03-06 Thread Martin Costabel
Alexander Hansen wrote: [] With regard to TeX, we seem to have vocal people who want a newer TeX distro but purport not to know what to do to implement it. We should make extra sure that changing from tetex is as painless as possible, to satisfy everybody. Some more remarks on the tex

[Fink-devel] Failed: phase compiling: geomview191-shlibs-1.9.1-1001 failed

2008-03-06 Thread Dominique Dhumieres
On Intel OSX 10.5.2 installing geomview191-shlibs-1.9.1-1001 failed with: ... ld: cycle in dylib re-exports with /usr/X11/lib/libGL.dylib collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[4]: *** [libgeomview.la] Error 1 make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]:

[Fink-devel] Fink going down the drain? -- was (New packages in tracker ).

2008-03-06 Thread David H.
Hello all. First of all let me take the opportunity to welcome the discussion around Fink, how we are being perceived as a project and what we can improve on. Some know me, some do not. My name is David (dmalloc) and I spend most of my time researching how to make Fink more accessible to our

Re: [Fink-devel] New packages in tracker

2008-03-06 Thread Jed Frechette
On Mar 5, 2008, at 6:10 PM, John Ridgway wrote: ... I think that's enough venting for now. I'm sorry to trouble people, but I'm trying to help, and feel like I'm submitting stuff into a vacuum. I'm glad you started this thread I was starting to feel the same way looking at the long list

Re: [Fink-devel] New packages in tracker

2008-03-06 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 06/03/2008, Martin Costabel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alexander Hansen wrote: [] With regard to TeX, we seem to have vocal people who want a newer TeX distro but purport not to know what to do to implement it. We should make extra sure that changing from tetex is as painless as

Re: [Fink-devel] New packages in tracker

2008-03-06 Thread Kevin Horton
On 6 Mar 2008, at 10:21, Alexander Hansen wrote: Jed Frechette wrote: Would it help the process at all if people outside the core developers went through the tracker testing and commenting on packages? Yes it would. The case of doesn't build on ... is easy to handle. However, there are

Re: [Fink-devel] [Fink-users] Fink going down the drain? -- was (New packages in tracker ).

2008-03-06 Thread David H.
Help is available from three groups: 1) Software in the Public Interest 2) Software Freedom Law Center 3) the open source foundations mailing list Thank you, I will put some work into that, researching those possibilities. For (3), let me know who in Fink is leading the NPO effort and I'll

Re: [Fink-devel] New packages in tracker

2008-03-06 Thread Alexander Hansen
Kevin Horton wrote: On 6 Mar 2008, at 10:21, Alexander Hansen wrote: Jed Frechette wrote: Would it help the process at all if people outside the core developers went through the tracker testing and commenting on packages? Yes it would. The case of doesn't build on ... is easy to handle.

Re: [Fink-devel] [Fink-users] Fink going down the drain? -- was (New packages in tracker ).

2008-03-06 Thread Josh Berkus
David, The question for us is more about how to deal with the tax incurred through raising the money. We are quite sure that our quite exceptional members would use a donation button if we put one up. PayPal already gave us clearance for that. But we do not know how to declare this income in

[Fink-devel] Failed: phase compiling: dx-4.4.4-1002 failed

2008-03-06 Thread Dominique Dhumieres
On PPC (G4) OSX 10.4.11 updating to dx-4.4.4-1002 failed with: ... checking for X... libraries /usr/X11R6/lib, headers /usr/X11R6/include checking for IceConnectionNumber in -lICE... yes checking for SmcSetProperties in -lSM... yes checking for printf in -lxlibcon... no checking for XCreateWindow

[Fink-devel] libsndfile1-1.0.17-4

2008-03-06 Thread Andreas Jenny
macbinary3.c:30:26: error: CoreServices.h: No such file or directory make[3]: *** [macbinary3.lo] Error 1 make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: *** [all] Error 2 make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 ### execution of make failed, exit code 2 Removing runtime build-lock... Removing build-lock

Re: [Fink-devel] Updated mplayer (#1885675)

2008-03-06 Thread James Bunton
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 03:28:53PM -0500, Alexander Hansen wrote: James Bunton wrote: Hi, Apologies for the cross-post to fink-users, hit the wrong address book entry :\ See this tracker item: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detailatid=414256aid=1885674group_id=17203 I contacted