[Fink-devel] Re: db3 ( Evolution)

2002-01-20 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
On Sunday, January 20, 2002, at 11:57 PM, Patrick Tescher wrote: Quick Question, I am down to 2 errors compiling evolution and I was looking around at how it will fit in with the current fink packages. Evolution requires Berkley's db 3.1.17. Splitting db into db3 and db4 was a good

Re: [Fink-devel] Fix for libtool convenience library bug

2002-02-03 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
On Sunday, February 3, 2002, at 05:29 AM, Max Horn wrote: What you should do before you submit a libtool patch: 1) Get a non-OS X box, and install the latest libtool source on that 2) Run the test suite and verify that all tests pass 3) Apply your patch, run the test suite still passes all

Re: [Fink-devel] possible readline/ncurses problem

2002-02-20 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
Martin Costabel wrote: I suppose Dave has libxpg4 installed. It has this effect. libxpg4 sets the environment variable DYLD_FORCE_FLAT_NAMESPACE, which will break any binary that is compiled with twolevel_namespace (the default) and has multiply defined symbols. I'd expect there are many

Re: [Fink-devel] PHP, OpenOSX, etc..

2002-03-08 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
On Friday, March 8, 2002, at 03:49 PM, Bill Bumgarner wrote: Pointing out only that, for the first time in memory, OpenOSX is actually shipping something that is more up to date than Fink and that Fink is shipping a version of PHP w/a known security hole (which I failed to mention-- sorry

Re: [Fink-devel] What is the current state of the OpenOSX Installer SW?

2002-04-09 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
David R. Morrison wrote: If I sell a CD with GPL'd software, I am only required to provide the source to my customers. So I can meet the requirement of the GPL by putting the source on the CD. (Have you seen the CD's in question? I haven't, so maybe they are doing this.) Exactly. If

[Fink-devel] Re: [ fink-Package Submissions-543612 ] FinkCommander package

2002-04-14 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
Max Horn wrote: I firmly believe that one thing that makes Fink strong is its focus on various key properties. Dilluting them is not going to help us. One of these properties is that we stick as much as sanely possible in /sw, and we package *unix* applications (except for a few auxillary

Re: [Fink-devel] Problems with templates in C++

2002-04-20 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
On Saturday, April 20, 2002, at 03:25 PM, Kyle Moffett wrote: I am working on porting a c++ program that I may bring to fink if I can get it to work, and I keep running into a problem. Every time I try to link two object files, one with a template the other needs, I get an error, for

Re: [Fink-devel] Move aggressive

2002-04-22 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
On Monday, April 22, 2002, at 09:59 AM, Max Horn wrote: pan-0.11.3-1 I've been using Pan without any problems so far. Also, my Galeon package has a few users (at least I've gotten feedback from around 6 or 7), but it depends on gnome-vfs (= 1.0.3-4) and mozilla (= 0.9.9). I've been using

Re: [Fink-devel] parallel downloads

2002-04-23 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
, but I could help you figure out what apt-get is doing if you're not familiar with C/C++. Toodle pip, Dave Vasilevsky ___ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel

Re: [Fink-devel] Getting patches back upstream + libtool convenience libs

2002-04-30 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
like it more. The new patch is appended to this email. No word yet from the libtool upstream maintainers on whether they'll actually incorporate this patch. Dave Vasilevsky --- ltmain.sh.old 2002-04-27 00:01:23.0 -0400 +++ ltmain.sh 2002-04-27 00:01:45.0 -0400

Re: [Fink-devel] 2 questions (DVD-divx, setxkbmap)

2002-05-01 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
On Wednesday, May 1, 2002, at 03:48 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2. Usually for xfree I use the setxkbmap utilite to set up a Ukrainian keyboard layout. Unfortunately when I installed xfree on my mac I got: [localhost: ~] user123% setxkbmap ua+group(toggle) Couldn't interpret

Re: [Fink-devel] Getting stack traces?

2002-05-01 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
of this exception. If you don't know what this means. If you don't know C++ (and Amaya is written in it), post back and I'll try and give more details. Good luck! Dave Vasilevsky ___ Have big pipes? SourceForge.net is looking for download mirrors

[Fink-devel] Bash and 10.2

2002-05-10 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
(especially libtool) build much, much faster, so it shouldn't take too long to test things out. Dave Vasilevsky Here's the patch for problem 3: diff -Naur gdk-pixbuf-0.16.0/configure gp-new/configure --- gdk-pixbuf-0.16.0/configure 2002-01-22 20:11:48.0 -0500 +++ gp-new/configure2002

Re: [Fink-devel] Bash and 10.2

2002-05-10 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
On Friday, May 10, 2002, at 07:52 AM, Max Horn wrote: Is it because of spacial chars in $verstring that break since it's not quoted? What exactly is a value of $verstring that makes it choke? It shouldn't be caused by spaces, since those would break zsh, too, wouldn't they? There are

Re: [Fink-devel] http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/x11/index.php update?

2002-05-22 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
Perhaps some mention should be made of how to get the usage options for startx? Currently startx -- -help works for me because startx doesn't understand it, but I'm sure there's a better way. This is especially useful for folks using pure Darwin or not running the OS X WindowServer, since

Re: [Fink-devel] having trouble with fink installs: stuff seems out of date

2002-05-23 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
David R. Morrison wrote: Another thing I wonder: a few of the guys on #fink have installed Darwin recently (I think maybe both vasi and RangerRick did this), and I'm wondering what they did to install Fink. I was able to get wget via ftp, from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/wget/. I suppose you can

Re: [Fink-devel] symlink in gtk+ package

2002-06-12 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
have when upgraded. It stops programs from linking to already-installed versions of a library, instead of the upgraded version in /sw/src/%n/. Please contact me so we can coordinate our efforts. Dave Vasilevsky ___ Sponsored

[Fink-devel] Re: Dependency/provides question

2002-10-09 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
Kyle Moffett wrote: On Monday, October 7, 2002, at 08:04 PM, Max Horn wrote: Nonsense. It is no problem at all to encode variants in the current .info format. This has been discussed a lot in the past. It is not a problem, but it is somewhat clumsy, and I believe that a well designed XML

[Fink-devel] Re: Variants

2002-10-10 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
Max Horn wrote: People, don't forget: while Variants on the one hand are a cute thing and make it possible to custom taylor your Fink install, they also exponentiate the complexity of Fink and potentially of packages that use the feature. Added complexity means: * more bugs introduced to

Re: [Fink-devel] FAQ packaging reference: Suggests vs Recommends vs Enhances?

2002-11-13 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
- Suggests: The packages listed in Suggests are not required but may be useful with this package. example: zip-2.3-1 Suggests: unzip (current zip's info actually says Recommends, should this be Suggests?) example: unzip-5.50-1

[Fink-devel] Re: Competition for Fink: gentoo

2003-06-10 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
Christian Schaffner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How is this going to affect the fink development? I think Benjamin already answered this one: We'll have a few more people porting things to OS X, and otherwise Fink will just go about development normally. Fink competes with Gentoo in the same way

[Fink-devel] Re: galeon crash report

2003-06-22 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
I'm CC'ing this message to the Fink Devel list, because I'm afraid that there's no package maintainer for this. I reported the same crashes several times. Each time, I received an alert message that suggests that he didn't receive my feedback. At any rate, this package doesn't seem to be

Re: [Fink-devel] system-xfree86

2003-06-24 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
that deb. The point? This lets Apple's X11 be uninstalled to make room for XDarwin, and be quickly reinstalled if needed--even if X11 is included with the OS and doesn't have it's own downloadable installer. Thoughts? Dave Vasilevsky

Re: [Fink-devel] Multiple processes

2003-07-14 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
On Thursday, July 10, 2003, at 08:36 PM, John Davidorff Pell wrote: Has anyone done any work with making fink a little more friendly if I run multiple instances of it? iLike to have more than one compile going at a time, but on occasion I'll find that I started compiling foo and then want to

Re: [Fink-devel] the great guessing game

2003-09-05 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
On Thursday, September 4, 2003, at 06:58 PM, Koen van der Drift wrote: ld: multiple definitions of symbol TSE3::App::Application::saveChoices(std::basic_stringchar, std::char_traitschar, std::allocatorchar const) ./app/.libs/libtse3app.al(Application.lo) definition of

Re: [Fink-devel] Creating the .deb package fails

2003-10-08 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
On Tuesday, October 7, 2003, at 08:24 AM, Olivier Bonnet wrote: make install Making install in src make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'. /bin/sh ../mkinstalldirs /sw/share/games/lgeneral/sounds/pg mkdir /sw/share/games/lgeneral/sounds/pg Your install script is making changes directly

Re: [Fink-devel] fink run *not* as root

2003-10-10 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
On Friday, October 10, 2003, at 06:48 PM, David R. Morrison wrote: Since fink directs make install to a temporary installation directory, we don't need to be root to run that either. Except when a package wants to chown a file. The tricky thing, though, is the last thing fink does when compiling

Re: [Fink-devel] sources for xc-20031117.tar.bz2

2003-11-20 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Nov 20, 2003, at 4:14 PM, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: And http://cvs.debian.org/debian-cd/Attic/pkg-order makes interesting reading. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=pkg-orderarchive=yes as well. Hi, I have asked pkg-order

Re: [Fink-devel] BuildDependsOnly field

2003-12-02 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
I thought some of you might be interested in the wrapper I've been using for Fink lately. It requires Fink packages expect-pm and debfoster-2.5 . Here's what the wrapper `bfink` does to modify the build process: bfink Description: Binary data rmorphans2 Description: Binary data 1.

Re: [Fink-devel] find . -ls gets zero sizes!

2004-01-25 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
Hi, I'm the findutils maintainer. 'find -ls' (and in fact most of the size-related bits of find) is broken in older versions of findutils. Newer versions, including 4.1.20 in unstable, work fine for me. I'm seeing exactly the same output from '/usr/bin/find . -ls' and '/sw/bin/find . -ls'. If

[Fink-devel] findutils needs testing

2004-02-27 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
On Feb 27, 2004, at 9:47 AM, David R. Morrison wrote: If you are aware of any of your packages in the 10.3/stable tree which are *not* suitable for binary release, please either fix them or remove them from that tree. The stable version of findutils has a known bug, where it reports all file

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: binary release plans

2004-03-01 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
On Mar 1, 2004, at 3:38 AM, Daniel Macks wrote: SplitOff: Package: %N-shlibs Replaces: %N SplitOff2: Package: %N-dev Replaces: %N (= 3.93.1-10) Should SplitOff:Replaces:%N also have versioning? Otherwise it doesn't make much sense. That's true. It seems lame-shlibs has had that for almost

Re: [Fink-devel] Where to find downloaded patches?

2004-03-05 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
The SourceN should end up in %p/src. Is the patch file there? What error do you get? You cannot rely on that. What if the Source is in FetchAltDir? Dave PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part

[Fink-devel] Re: failed du_sk-tests in making fink-0.19.2.cvs-20040317

2004-03-17 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
On Mar 17, 2004, at 11:56 AM, jfm wrote: I have no idea what causes this _ UFS shouldn't matter here, no ? UFS may in fact matter. I will go create a UFS disk and check. Dave PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [Fink-devel] failed du_sk-tests in making fink-0.19.2.cvs-20040317

2004-03-17 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
On Mar 17, 2004, at 1:22 PM, jfm wrote: I thought this was quite correct : isn't a subdirectory a file in itself ? Directories are files, yes. But why doesn't du count directories on HFS? I don't care which it does, as long as it's consistent. I'd like to both keep du_sk consistent with du, but

Re: [Fink-devel] Problem while porting Unix application to Mac Os X

2004-03-17 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
Your problem sounds a bit like a lazy-linking issue, but it's not quite the issue I've seen. Try putting everything in one source file and see if that makes a difference. Dave PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [Fink-devel] failed du_sk-tests in making fink-0.19.2.cvs-20040317

2004-03-18 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
Alright, in fink cvs, du_sk now counts the same as 'du -sk' on both filesystems. I had to remove the test for du_sk(empty directory) = 0, since apparently it's not on UFS. jfm, could you please test it? Thanks. Dave PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part

[Fink-devel] Bad versions and revisions

2004-03-19 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
Hey folks, Some packages seem to be using disallowed characters in versions and revisions. The culprits seem to be mainly underscores in versions (replace with a hyphen), and hyphens in revisions (replace with a dot). I also caught two packages whose versions start with non-digits. The

[Fink-devel] Fast fink indexing

2004-03-21 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
Hi all, I've got a patch on the tracker that lets Fink only index .info files that have changed, making Fink indexing much faster in most cases. I need people to test it, and I figure it's probably of interest to most of you. https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?

Re: [Fink-devel] unclear how to truly set up a package =/

2004-03-23 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
On Mar 23, 2004, at 9:47 AM, Daniel Henninger wrote: Wow thanks! That's exactly what I needed to know! So am I to assume that folk put together all of these packages as root? (rpm's I tend to be extra careful and build the rpm as myself instead of root) I have no qualms with doing it as root

Re: [Fink-devel] linking problem

2004-04-05 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
On Apr 5, 2004, at 3:21 PM, Jules wrote: dyld: /usr/local/bin/TTOPOLOGY Undefined symbols: __ZSt3cin __ZSt4cout __ZSt4endlIcSt11char_traitsIcEERSt13basic_ostreamIT_T0_ES6_ [snip] It looks like you're trying to link a C++ program with gcc instead of with g++. Could that be it? Dave PGP.sig

Re: [Fink-devel] Package and Version strings (was Re: [Fink-i18n] [translate] Fwd: web/xml/packaging packaging.en.xml,1.23,1.24)

2004-04-19 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
On Apr 19, 2004, at 7:42 PM, Daniel Macks wrote: in particular the should start with being weaker (a suggestion) than may contain only (a requirement). Usually when a decision is optional, that is made quite explicit. I take it the same way as a statement of what the right situation is. For

[Fink-devel] Re: [fink-commits] dists/10.3/unstable/main/finkinfo/utils rpm.info,NONE,1.1 rpm.patch,NONE,1.1

2004-06-25 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
On Jun 23, 2004, at 9:38 AM, Jean-François Mertens wrote: Update of /cvsroot/fink/dists/10.3/unstable/main/finkinfo/utils In directory sc8-pr-cvs1.sourceforge.net:/tmp/cvs-serv408 Added Files: rpm.info rpm.patch Log Message: from 10.2-gcc3.3 I just got a bug report about this package in

[Fink-devel] Re: [Fink-users] libwmf-0.2.8.2-2

2004-06-27 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
On Jun 27, 2004, at 12:10 PM, Paul INDELICATO wrote: I cannot see any serious looking problem except prebinding warnings. Also I see in the configure part: checking for gdk-pixbuf-2.0 = 2.1.2... Package gdk-pixbuf-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the

Re: [Fink-devel] Shell startup should warn if init.* fails

2004-06-27 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
On Jun 27, 2004, at 8:07 PM, Martin Costabel wrote: 1. The users that complain about the error message now will complain about the warning as well. You would have to include into the warning an explanation of how to purge the startup script so that the warning goes away. A reasonably-sized

Re: [Fink-devel] sf cvs access

2004-07-24 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
On Jul 23, 2004, at 8:42 PM, Koen van der Drift wrote: RubyTuesday:/sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/sci koen$ cvs diff emboss.info cvs.sourceforge.net: Operation timed out cvs [diff aborted]: end of file from server (consult above messages if any) I have similar problems with cvs log, diff,

Re: [Fink-devel] libtool and dynamic libraries

2004-08-23 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
Hi Dale, Have you tried passing -Wl,-bind_at_load ? By the way, if you pass -v -v to gcc, it will show you the libtool and ld commands it's running, so you can examine what's going wrong. Dave PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [Fink-devel] versioning Depends in info files

2004-08-23 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
On Aug 23, 2004, at 10:33 AM, Hanspeter Niederstrasser wrote: Is there a way to get the dependency engine to accept a specific version of another package but wildcard the revision field when searching? Hi Hanspeter, For my Galeon package I have to depend on a specific major version of Mozilla,

Re: [Fink-devel] versioning Depends in info files

2004-08-23 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
On Aug 23, 2004, at 5:21 PM, Martin Costabel wrote: Depends: mozilla (= 1.7-1), mozilla ( 1.8-1) Did you actually try this? And did it do what you thought it should do? In my tests, when it was like you show it, it happily neglected the second dependency and installed the higher version anyway.

Re: [Fink-devel] XCode issue

2004-08-23 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
On Aug 23, 2004, at 5:32 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ld: warning prebinding disabled because of undefined symbols ld: Undefined symbols: _pm_seek2 _pm_tell2 make[2]: *** [pnmtopng] Error 1 make[1]: *** [other/all] Error 2 make: *** [converter/all] Error 2 ### execution of make failed, exit code 2

Re: [Fink-devel] Unresolved symbols

2004-09-20 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
Try running the link command manually, but add the arguments '-v -Wl,-v'. This will let you see what Apple libtool and ld are doing, which will hopefully shed some light. Dave PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [Fink-devel] DocFiles directory tree

2004-09-21 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
On Sep 21, 2004, at 4:13 AM, Trevor Harmon wrote: The DocFiles field in a .info file can take any number of files and wildcards. However, the doc files that I would like to include in my package consist of several hundred files several directories deep. As a workaround, include in your

[Fink-devel] Mozilla and Xorg

2004-10-03 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
Hi folks, As some of you have noticed, Mozilla will not build with Xorg. This is because it uses a new version of freetype which removed a formerly deprecated API. I have a version of mozilla in my experimental dir that is patched to use the replacement API. It should build with Xorg, and it

Re: [Fink-devel] lifetime of static variables

2004-12-21 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
On Dec 16, 2004, at 9:17 PM, Mark Treiber wrote: I'm in the middle of updating my quantlib package and the test suite is producing a failure that doesn't occur on any other platform. Basically are there any known issues with the lifetime of static variables with the november gcc update? Mac OS X

Re: [Fink-devel] lifetime of static variables

2004-12-21 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
On Dec 21, 2004, at 11:25 AM, David Fang wrote: I've been using patterns like the code above in my own traits classes with static members. I've found that linking all the object files into one (via libtool convenience library) wasn't sufficient to force the linker to link in the modules'

Re: [Fink-devel] lifetime of static variables

2004-12-22 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
On Dec 22, 2004, at 2:24 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: Is this different from using the -single-module linker flag? The latter is often recommended for problems with static initializers. According to Apple, it's exactly the same thing: http://developer.apple.com/releasenotes/DeveloperTools/

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Providing default /sw/var/lib/debfoster/keepers with base-files package?

2005-01-22 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
On Jan 20, 2005, at 8:02 PM, Daniel Macks wrote: If a user is not carfull the system might end up unusable due to e.g. a missing apt while running with UseBinaryDist. That's not an unusable state, since fink will merely issue a please install the apt pkg warning. But anyway... I think what was

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Providing default /sw/var/lib/debfoster/keepers with base-files package?

2005-01-22 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
On Jan 20, 2005, at 8:02 PM, Daniel Macks wrote: If a user is not carfull the system might end up unusable due to e.g. a missing apt while running with UseBinaryDist. That's not an unusable state, since fink will merely issue a please install the apt pkg warning. But anyway... I think what was

Re: [Fink-devel] PatchScript: how to handle broken pipes

2005-01-29 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
On Jan 28, 2005, at 1:31 AM, Daniel Macks wrote: If we ever rework our patchfile system, we could give percent-expansions to the filenames and then only define those % keys if the file actually existed. Yes, we ought to do that. As an ugly hack in the meantime, why not read STDERR and look for

Re: [Fink-devel] Perl variants -- problem and proposed solution

2005-02-14 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
Hi folks, While I agree with dmacks that we can't really automate this, I still think it's important to deal with. I think that if we support a perl version, we ideally want every variant to support that version. There are a few ways this could be accomplished: 1. Usually it's not considered

[Fink-devel] popt and BuildDependsOnly policy

2005-02-21 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
Hi folks, Thanks to tonyarnold, the 'popt' package should no longer be required for packages that use popt-shlibs to have proper localization. Packages that Depend on popt despite it being BuildDependsOnly should no longer do so. So if you see fink warn about a package depending on popt,

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: [Fink-beginners] undefined value as filehandle reference at /sw/lib/perl5/Fink/Package.pm line 36

2005-02-25 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
On Feb 25, 2005, at 10:24 AM, Daniel Macks wrote: open APTDUMP, $basepath/bin/apt-cache dump | Perl usually discourages this form, since if someone could convince $basepath to bstart with it might do bad things. Why not stick with this? open APTDUMP, -|, $basepath/bin/apt-cache dump; Still

Re: [Fink-devel] buildconflicts, buildlock

2005-02-26 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
On Feb 26, 2005, at 6:08 PM, David R. Morrison wrote: OK, in my opinion, this behavior as reported by Robert indicates that the buildlock system is not yet working as it should. It's working fine, it's catching a bug in Fink right away rather than later. :-) Fink is supposed to be able to

Re: [Fink-devel] the gpl and openssl

2005-03-26 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
On Mar 16, 2005, at 2:39 PM, Lars Rosengreen wrote: Yes, I think we do. I'll try to construct a list of packages that may be affected. Thanks Lars. I guess once we have this, for each package we'll need to: - Notify the upstream developers that they're sitting on a time bomb. :-) - Do one of

Re: [Fink-devel] Problem with -fabi-version=1

2005-04-18 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
On Apr 18, 2005, at 2:53 PM, Matthew Sachs wrote: I got word that the default for -fabi-version in 3.3 is -1, for compatibility with 3.1. So that explains why you can't link -fabi-version=1 packages with 3.3-built default ABI packages. Code is here:

Re: [Fink-devel] Problem with -fabi-version=1

2005-04-18 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
On Apr 19, 2005, at 12:09 AM, Peter O'Gorman wrote: Ah, how silly of me, of course I need to specify g++-3.3 on tiger. That or pass -fabi-version=1. Sorry for the confusion! My intro to this kinda sucked before, so according to what we know now, these are some examples of what should work and

Re: [Fink-devel] Problem with -fabi-version=1

2005-04-18 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
On Apr 18, 2005, at 6:21 PM, TheSin wrote: if upgrading from 10.3 - 10.4 will will need to set abi-version to 0  I'm not sure but I think this will work. I strongly suspect this will not work. -fabi-version=0 is equivalent to -fabi-version=the maximum supported ABI version for this g++. So on

Re: [Fink-devel] Problem with -fabi-version=1

2005-04-19 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
On Apr 19, 2005, at 1:12 AM, Matthew Sachs wrote: In further testing, however, it seems that it also works with g++-3.3 on Tiger and no -fabi-version on Panther without the SDK. I've asked my coworkers for clarification on why we should be using the SDK in this situation. Ok guys, I've talked

Re: [Fink-devel] variants and patching

2005-04-24 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
On Apr 24, 2005, at 8:57 AM, Koen van der Drift wrote: For a package I maintain only one of the variants needs to be patched. How can I add that in the .info file? Probably the best way is to use a PatchScript: PatchScript: #!/bin/sh -ev if [ %type_raw[-foo] = -foo ]; then patch

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: [fink-seed] findutils problem

2005-05-01 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
Hey guys, I'm not sure why nobody's asking me about this, given that I'm the maintainer. In 10.3/unstable I've already put findutils 4.2.20 rev 2, which fixes this issue in my testing. I don't yet have a Tiger system working, so if somebody would like to test my fix and then commit the

[Fink-devel] Autoconf 2.5 on Tiger

2005-05-02 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
Getting this error while installing/building autoconf: /sw/bin/install -c -m 644 ./standards.info /Library/Fink/src/root- autoconf2.5-2.59-6/sw/share/info/standards.info cd doc make html texi2html -split_chapter ./autoconf.texi ** Unknown command [EMAIL PROTECTED]' (left as is) (l. 8) ** Unknown

Re: [Fink-devel] Autoconf 2.5 on Tiger

2005-05-02 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
On May 2, 2005, at 5:25 AM, David R. Morrison wrote: OTOH, fink's texi2html package has deliberately not been updated to this newest version. So BuildDepends: texi2html should cure the problem for now. There's a problem with this. Fink's texi2html uses #!/sw/bin/perl . But I'm using

Re: [Fink-devel] missing patch file does not give an error

2005-05-18 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
[snip patchscript options] Another option, which doesn't require changes to hundreds of packages, is to require bash 3.0 and use the pipefail option for PatchScripts: bash-3.00$ false | true; echo $? 0 bash-3.00$ set -o pipefail bash-3.00$ false | true; echo $? 1 Dave PGP.sig Description:

Re: [Fink-devel] gdk-pixbuf-0.18.0-12

2005-05-22 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
The issue should be fixed now. Apparently the original issue (that I fixed in a broken way) was originally because of an earlier fink patch, I just took out the broken part of that and removed both mine and Martin's later fixes. Thanks for your help Martin. Dave PGP.sig Description:

[Fink-devel] Stopping Spotlight

2005-05-24 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
Hi folks, Some of you have already noticed Spotlight indexing /sw/src, which makes builds slow. For various reasons the solutions suggested so far aren't ideal[1], but msachs found out for us that directories with the *.build do not have anything inside them indexed. So we're going to

Re: [Fink-devel] Stopping Spotlight

2005-05-25 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
On May 25, 2005, at 9:55 AM, Hanspeter Niederstrasser wrote: Will this be %p/src/foo-%v-%r.build or %p/src/fink.build/foo-%v-%r? The second one. Packages will build in %p/src/fink.build/%f and will install in %p/src/fink.build/root-%f . I'm mostly just thinking that doing

[Fink-devel] Re: Stopping Spotlight

2005-05-25 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
On May 25, 2005, at 10:43 AM, Kinako wrote: Adding sw into /System/Library/Find/SkipFolders might work. In my testing it doesn't. Dave PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [Fink-devel] Running your own Binary Distribution Server

2005-05-31 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
using some chroot trickiness, but I honestly don't know how reliable that would be.) Alternatively, you can have two separate repositories for 10.3 and 10.4-transitional. On May 31, 2005, at 7:43 PM, Dave Vasilevsky wrote: By the way, if you would like to have 'fink scanpackages' run many

Re: [Fink-devel] Fink Build Status; QA Proposal

2005-05-31 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
On May 31, 2005, at 10:55 PM, Michèle Garoche wrote:Le 31 mai 2005 à 23:48, Matthew Sachs a écrit :The second build will use 10.4-transitional and not try to force 4.0, and will build the packages as 'nobody' instead of 'root'.That would be good, because I've begun on 27th May and only 1120

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Fink package jove failing with --build-as-nobody

2005-06-10 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
On Jun 10, 2005, at 1:06 AM, Blair Zajac wrote: Looking at the log, it's doing a chown to root in the temporary install directory: Hi Blair, Matthew wrote: --build-as-nobody is needed to be able to create bindists automatically and safely, and we're hoping to switch it over to be the

Re: [Fink-devel] '$MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET mismatch: now 10.4 but 10.3 during configure' error compiling clearsilver with python2.4

2005-06-12 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
On Jun 12, 2005, at 9:03 AM, Jeremy Higgs wrote: error: $MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET mismatch: now 10.4 but 10.3 during configure make[1]: *** [neo_cgi.so] Error 1 The compile continues, but the file (neo_cgi.so) is not compiled, and therefore not installed... which is a bit of a problem.

Re: [Fink-devel] openssl-linked packages: need new license type?

2005-06-14 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
On Jun 14, 2005, at 4:51 AM, Daniel Macks wrote: OTOH, we could generalize the solution away from fink's openssl linkage policy and just add a new Restrictive/Source-Distributable license type. I have no doubt that some of the other Restrictive packages may allow souce redistribution but (for

Re: [Fink-devel] need builder for programm

2005-06-17 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
On Jun 17, 2005, at 4:16 AM, Daniel Macks wrote: On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 09:28:59AM +0200, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: a binary version is probably no good, because it would depend on libraries that may not be there. gtk is not normally available on a Mac. Building it static would avoid

Re: [Fink-devel] GCC ABI recompiling issues

2005-06-27 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
On Jun 27, 2005, at 6:24 PM, Peter O'Gorman wrote: If your app/library does not use any c++ api then it does not need to be rebuilt. You can use Ben's idea to check this. nm -g app out1; nm -g app | c++filt out2; cmp out1 out2 I have a script I've been using to check my packages this

Re: [Fink-devel] Help needed with g++ handling

2005-06-28 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
Hi Michèle, It seems you're a bit confused, understandable given the GCC situation. Hopefully this mail can make things clearer, it's a bit long so I've written it in sections. Also, you may want to read the new section in the packaging manual: http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/

Re: [Fink-devel] soap-lite-pm

2005-06-28 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
On Jun 28, 2005, at 8:28 AM, Chris Dolan wrote: The /sw/bin files should go in a -bin splitoff. See spreadsheet- writeexcel-pm.info for a simple example. Note that there should perhaps also be a -man splitoff. On Jun 27, 2005, at 5:13 PM, Koen van der Drift wrote: During the installation

Re: [Fink-devel] Help needed with g++ handling

2005-06-29 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
Hi Michèle, I'm glad my email was helpful to you. The SetCXX: c++ and SetCC: cc that you used in cssed accomplish nothing, but they're also harmless. So you can leave them in or remove them, it's up to you. So, it was here till the beginning, could I remove it in all trees? I mean this is

Re: [Fink-devel] Use-binary-dist flakiness

2005-06-29 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
On Jun 29, 2005, at 8:07 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: Using a local server for unstable debs, I have a long-standing quibble with apt-get: It often doesn't understand that a package is already installed and apt-get dist-upgrade downloads and installs many packages, sometimes hundreds of

Re: [Fink-devel] 10.4 tree

2005-07-06 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
On Jul 5, 2005, at 10:58 PM, Philip Lamb wrote: Obviously we have 10.4-transitional using g++-3.3, but how is Fink going to enforce a complete rebuild of c++-based packages for users under 10.4? Another issue is that we will potentially have packages which cannot link to anything pre

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: [Fink-users] New 10.2-gcc3.3 Packages?

2005-07-07 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
On Jul 7, 2005, at 9:49 AM, Dan Sommers wrote: I must be the only one here still running fink on Jaguar, so I have recently borrowed some info/patch files from the 10.3 tree on SourceForge, copied them to my /sw/fink/dists/local tree, and installed them, and they seem to work. Specifically,

Re: [Fink-devel] gtk+2 strangeness.

2005-07-09 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
On Jul 8, 2005, at 11:43 PM, Corey Halpin wrote: (gdb) bt #0 0x8fe0878c in __dyld_is_library_loaded_by_name () #1 0x8fe02e38 in __dyld_load_library_image () #2 0x8fe0642c in __dyld_load_images_libraries () #3 0x8fe04720 in __dyld_map_bundle_image () #4 0x8fe12ec8 in

Re: [Fink-devel] build error: directory

2005-07-11 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
On Jul 10, 2005, at 9:36 PM, Jesse Alama wrote: When the file emacs-wiki_2.68.orig.tar.gz, which is downloaded from the debian, is unpacked it creates the directory `emacs-wiki'. Judging from the final error message, it seems that fink expects the unpacked file to be called something else,

Re: [Fink-devel] Fwd: Compiling pwlib on 10.4 (Tiger)

2005-07-18 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
On Jul 18, 2005, at 10:42 AM, Kyle Moffett wrote: virtual thunk to std::basic_istreamchar, std::char_traitschar ::~basic_istream() If you do a 'nm -m' on libstdc++, that symbol is in section (__TEXT,__textcoal_nt), which means it's a 'coalesced' symbol. I'm not sure if this is relevant,

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: dists/10.3/unstable/main/finkinfo/base tar.info,1.8,1.9

2005-07-20 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
On Jul 20, 2005, at 4:56 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: I can understand that one would require packages to have *explicit* dependencies on essentials, as a preparation to eventually un- essentialize some of these, but *implicit* dependencies on essentials seems to be nonsensical. They are

[Fink-devel] New fink release, testing needed

2005-07-25 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
Hey folks, We're about to release fink 0.24.8. This is a bit of a bigger point- release than usual, because a bunch of features from the future 0.25 have been backported, so we'd like to get a few days of testing on - devel before release. To try it out, you can access the branch

Re: [Fink-devel] New fink release, testing needed

2005-07-25 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
On Jul 25, 2005, at 7:33 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Dave * 'fink rescan' is deprecated because nobody knows what it's Dave for. If Dave you know, tell us! I've used it as a ritual turn east and pray action when I've gone in and hacked my local .info and .patch files. Is it no

Re: [Fink-devel] pilot-link9-0.11.8-32

2005-07-26 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
On Jul 22, 2005, at 10:34 PM, Mark Marin wrote: mv: rename /sw/src/fink.build/root-pilot-link9-0.11.8-32/sw/lib/ python2.3 to /sw/src/fink.build/root-pilot-link9-py23-0.11.8-32/sw/lib/ python2.3: No such file or directory This is usually indicative of a failure earlier in the build. Please

Re: [Fink-devel] New fink release, testing needed

2005-07-26 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
On Jul 26, 2005, at 7:47 PM, Kyle Moffett wrote: I think I remember that it used to create/update apt-get package lists for local filesystem repositories, so that when running dselect you can see what deb files are on the local filesystem, even if they aren't installed at the moment. As

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: fink/perlmod/Fink ChangeLog,1.1072,1.1073 Package.pm,1.145,1.146

2005-07-29 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
On Jul 29, 2005, at 11:38 AM, TheSin wrote: it won't be cause now if a Info2 is added that has spacing it'll break parsing on older finks. We simply can not allow spaces in Info2, without using Info3. Good point! Ok, Info3 then. Flame away! :-) Dave PGP.sig Description: This is

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: fink/perlmod/Fink ChangeLog,1.1072,1.1073 Package.pm,1.145,1.146

2005-07-29 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
On Jul 29, 2005, at 1:55 PM, Daniel Macks wrote: Apply this python method to all fields, not just Info3 (pass $infon read_properties_var and do it in the parser). Ok, done. With this code, Python scripts in CompileScript, and indented shell heredocs and all kinds of stuff that was hard and

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