Re: [Fink-users] tetex on 10.8/x86_64

2012-11-29 Thread David R. Morrison
texlive has replaced telex. It is a complete TeX package, with all of the functionality of telex and more. -- Dave On Nov 29, 2012, at 10:01 AM, Jean-Francois Donati wrote: hi list, what is the situation regarding tetex, and its porting to 10.8? is it likely to happen soon? it

Re: [Fink-users] install-info

2012-07-28 Thread David R. Morrison
On Jul 28, 2012, at 4:29 AM, Greg Minshall wrote: hi. how do i find out which package installed a given file in /sw? (in this particular case, /sw/sbin/install-info, but i'm curious in general.) cheers. dpkg -S /sw/sbin/install-info shows the answer in the form packagename:

Re: [Fink-users] problems compiling qt4-base-mac-4.7.3-4

2012-06-14 Thread David R. Morrison
On Jun 12, 2012, at 11:41 AM, Greg A. Woods wrote: At Tue, 12 Jun 2012 11:35:59 -0700, Alexander Hansen alexanderk.han...@gmail.com wrote: Subject: Re: [Fink-users] problems compiling qt4-base-mac-4.7.3-4 On 6/12/12 11:33 AM, Greg A. Woods wrote: At Tue, 12 Jun 2012 11:28:52 -0700,

Re: [Fink-users] gnuplot-nox

2011-12-02 Thread David R. Morrison
A general piece of advice, when you have things installed in /usr/local, is that you need to move /usr/local out of the way while fink is compiling things. (This is because it is impossible to disable the search into the /usr/local pathway by the compiler and linker.) So, before installing

Re: [Fink-users] GCC46 cannot produce 64-bit output

2011-10-30 Thread David R. Morrison
Peter, Neither the MacPorts project nor the Fink project recommend mixing files from the two. We're not trying to be difficult about this, it's just that keeping the incompatibilities among things within our *own* distributions is hard enough, without worrying about incompatibilities from the

Re: [Fink-users] GCC46 cannot produce 64-bit output

2011-10-30 Thread David R. Morrison
On Oct 30, 2011, at 4:18 PM, Peter Dyballa wrote: Am 30.10.2011 um 23:37 schrieb Martin Costabel: You even said the only provider, so it must be something that Fink doesn't do. Because my first installation of Fink led to a 32-bit Fink. So a more accurate statement would be

Re: [Fink-users] 10.7 Installing grace?

2011-07-25 Thread David R. Morrison
Hi. You're using an upgrade method which we hadn't anticipated, but which we are learning actually does work! To get system-java working, type /usr/bin/javac in a terminal and answer yes when asked if you want to install java. (By the way, you can't do this over ssh connection, you need to

Re: [Fink-users] Fwd: Re: problem installing scipy-py27

2010-12-12 Thread David R. Morrison
- Original Message Subject: Re: [Fink-users] problem installing scipy-py27 Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2010 02:06:28 -0500 From: Shaun Cutts sh...@cuttshome.net I do have some mathematical routines installed in /usr/lib ... I have used a convex optimization package, for instance,

Re: [Fink-users] lilypond fails at configure

2010-12-05 Thread David R. Morrison
Moritz: There is a workaround for this problem: you need to remove whichever autoconf* and/or automake* packages that are currently installed, then it will build. Mathias: I ran into this myself recently and forgot to send you a bug report. You either need to builddepend on a compatible

Re: [Fink-users] abiword

2010-12-04 Thread David R. Morrison
Now that libwv3 has been moved to stable, it looks to me like all of the abiword deps are present in stable... You should be good to go. -- Dave On Dec 5, 2010, at 7:57 AM, Matt Kozak wrote: Well, one fix in, but one (or) more needed: - Can't resolve dependency libwv3-shlibs for

Re: [Fink-users] dependency dpkg

2010-11-10 Thread David R. Morrison
Run fink index -f and then the selfupdate will work. -- Dave On Nov 10, 2010, at 8:38 PM, Lorenzo Marengo wrote: Hi, can anyone help me, please? This i my package version: Package manager version: 0.29.15 Distribution version: selfupdate-rsync Wed Nov 10 12:30:09 2010, 10.6, i386

Re: [Fink-users] tetex-3.0-1005

2010-10-29 Thread David R. Morrison
The binary file is out of date. You must reinstall building from source. On Oct 27, 2010, at 7:46 AM, Rafael Poliseli Teles wrote: Hi, I've a problem with Finc when i try to install binary files of tetex-base. What is wrong with my mac? or is it a problem of finc? Look at errors:

Re: [Fink-users] xfig-3.2.5-1013

2010-09-03 Thread David R. Morrison
The actual package which failed compiling was xaw3d. Unfortunately, the actual error occurred much earlier than this during the build process, and unless you can send more of the output we won't be able to help. On Sep 3, 2010, at 9:10 AM, Antonio Paolini wrote: Feedback: not good

Re: [Fink-users] CPU-specific tuning in Fink Source Distributions

2010-08-18 Thread David R. Morrison
On Aug 18, 2010, at 9:39 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 8/18/10 11:50 AM, Renaud Detry wrote: Hi, When using the Fink source distribution to install packages, are cpu-specific optimizations triggered? No. There is one exception to this

Re: [Fink-users] CPU-specific tuning in Fink Source Distributions

2010-08-18 Thread David R. Morrison
On Aug 18, 2010, at 11:45 AM, Renaud Detry wrote: Thanks for the replies! Do (Mach-O?) binaries encode which extensions to the x86 set they make use of? Yes Can one expect a warning when loading an incompatible binary, Yes or will it run with an undefined behavior? Here's a thread

Re: [Fink-users] library update

2010-07-02 Thread David R. Morrison
I package libpng for the fink software distribution, but your error messages indicate that the NCL and libpng software you are using don't come from the fink software distribution. You should ask your questions of the people who provided you with NCL. -- Dave On Jul 1, 2010, at 7:24 AM,

Re: [Fink-users] libiconv-1.12 missing iconv?

2010-06-28 Thread David R. Morrison
On Jun 28, 2010, at 1:52 PM, Timothy Havel wrote: % printenv DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH /usr/local/lib:/sw/lib:/usr/lib:/lib This seems to be the source of your trouble. DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH *overrides* the natural search path which dyld uses. Unlike Linux (which you may be familiar with example),

[Fink-users] Fwd: xfig font problem

2010-06-14 Thread David R. Morrison
Begin forwarded message: From: Brigitte Lahme brigitte.la...@sonoma.edu Date: June 14, 2010 2:21:38 PM PDT To: d...@finkproject.org Subject: xfig font problem Dear Mr. Morrison, I just tried to install xfig on OS 10.6.2 using fink and it seemed to be working fine. Unfortunately when

Re: [Fink-users] Failed: phase compiling: esound-0.2.38-2 failed

2010-02-04 Thread David R. Morrison
Try fink install opensp4-shlibs-1.5.1 and then try to compile esound again. -- Dave On Feb 4, 2010, at 6:58 PM, Sean Lake wrote: Hello everyone, Here's the system info: fink --version Package manager version: 0.29.10 Distribution version: selfupdate-rsync Thu Feb 4 18:49:54 2010,

Re: [Fink-users] libdnet-1.10-11 fails to compile

2010-02-01 Thread David R. Morrison
I'm not seeing where any of the nessus packages depend on libdnet. Which fink package are you actually trying for? On Feb 1, 2010, at 5:22 PM, Will McChesney wrote: Hi everyone! I am attempting to install Nessus on 10.6 using Fink Package manager version: 0.29.10 Distribution version:

Re: [Fink-users] libdnet-1.10-11 fails to compile

2010-02-01 Thread David R. Morrison
: Justin F. Hallett the...@users.sourceforge.net Note that this is preferable to emailing the maintainer directly, since most fink package maintainers do not have access to all possible hardware and software configurations. On Feb 1, 2010, at 8:46 PM, David R. Morrison wrote: I'm not seeing

[Fink-users] Fwd: tetex-3.0-1006

2010-01-20 Thread David R. Morrison
Begin forwarded message: From: jkolata kolat...@nd.edu Date: January 20, 2010 11:15:41 AM PST To: d...@finkproject.org Subject: tetex-3.0-1006 Hi, I recently upgraded to 0.29.10, then tried to install tetex. First, I tried 3.0-1005 from binary and got an unresolved dependency from

Re: [Fink-users] tetex package versions?

2010-01-03 Thread David R. Morrison
Peter, As you've recognized, tetex is significantly out of date. There is a much more recent TeX distribution called texlive which has recently been packaged for Fink. If you need up-to-date versions of TeX packages, I recommend that. So far, texlive is only available in the unstable tree.

Re: [Fink-users] using own binary dist with 10.6

2009-12-15 Thread David R. Morrison
It's possible that you'll need to add a default value (perhaps 0.10.0?) for the binary distribution version number in the function default_binary_version in /sw/lib/perl5/Fink/FinkVersion.pm . -- Dave On Dec 15, 2009, at 7:26 AM, Viv Kendon wrote: I have successfully run my own internal

[Fink-users] Fwd: Error building gd2-2.0.35-5 on snow leopard

2009-11-30 Thread David R. Morrison
Begin forwarded message: From: Brad Koehn b...@koehn.com Date: November 30, 2009 11:14:28 AM PST To: d...@finkproject.org Subject: Error building gd2-2.0.35-5 on snow leopard I'm getting the following error when I attempt to build on Snow Leopard: /bin/sh ./libtool --tag=CC

Re: [Fink-users] setting number of CPUs for compilation

2009-11-04 Thread David R. Morrison
On Nov 4, 2009, at 10:58 AM, Daniel Macks wrote: There's info on Fink Wiki I think. Or there would be, if the fink wiki was functional right now. -- Dave -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal

Re: [Fink-users] graphviz-2.22.2-1 build fails

2009-09-28 Thread David R. Morrison
On Sep 28, 2009, at 7:01 AM, David Fang wrote: I was able to reproduce this error with an upgraded 10.6 build, but haven't looked into fixing it yet. I haven't forgotten! I fixed my local info file for this problem , by avoiding APple's stuff (there was a time where it was basically

Re: [Fink-users] fink libdjvulibre15-shlibs

2009-09-26 Thread David R. Morrison
Fink cannot possibly support compiling in all situations, particularly ones where Fink has no control over what has been installed where (such as MacPorts). I'm happy to learn that you see no compiling errors when you uninstall MacPorts. -- Dave On Sep 26, 2009, at 7:46 AM, Norman

Re: [Fink-users] lablgl.info problem with architecture line

2009-09-21 Thread David R. Morrison
the package description I expect this is due to my case-sensitive file system?? cheers, -- Viv On Sun, 20 Sep 2009, David R. Morrison wrote: Sorry, that was my fault. Should be fixed now. -- Dave On Sep 20, 2009, at 3:08 PM, Viv Kendon wrote: Hello Likai, I think something isn't

Re: [Fink-users] fink on 10.6: 32/64-bit

2009-09-18 Thread David R. Morrison
One warning about this analysis: in the stable tree, we've tested everything on 10.6 (both 32-bit and 64-bit), and excluded the things which didn't build. But in the unstable tree (which you are using), we haven't done that yet, so just because the package seems to be available in

Re: [Fink-users] opensync-0.22-3

2009-09-14 Thread David R. Morrison
We don't have python24 on snow leopard, which is deliberate. The opensync package needs to be modified to use a different python, or excluded from 10.6. -- Dave On Sep 14, 2009, at 1:37 PM, Robert Wyatt wrote: Reading dependency for opensync-dev-0.22-3... WARNING: While resolving

Re: [Fink-users] Manual compilation and dependencies in fink

2009-09-12 Thread David R. Morrison
to compile) -- I noticed it seemed to be compiling some of the code correctly, but can't be sure its working across the board. --j David R. Morrison wrote: Perhaps you know more about g95 than the current fink developer/ maintainer team does. I am under the impression that bringing g95

Re: [Fink-users] OT: Sanity check

2009-06-12 Thread David R. Morrison
Those of us who are working with fink on Snow Leopard in advance of its release are not allowed to comment on the specifics of Snow Leopard, but I can make some general comments based on publically- available information. Everything I've heard publically about Grand Central Dispatch

Re: [Fink-users] Troubles making ruby18

2009-04-03 Thread David R. Morrison
On Apr 3, 2009, at 6:47 AM, Michal Suchanek wrote: Ruby 1.8.1 is ancient, has security issues, and should be replaced with the ruby from unstable (which iirc somebody promised in the package submission for the ruby security update). It would be quite helpful to update the Ruby in stable to

Re: [Fink-users] Help with libpng12.0.dylib

2009-03-10 Thread David R. Morrison
This is not a fink problem, so you might get better advice by asking the AFNI folks. However, I suspect this would be fixed if you upgrade or reinstall your X11. AFNI is configured to use the copy of libpng12 found in X11 (not fink's copy), but your machine seems to have an old version of

Re: [Fink-users] Questions about package database on http://www.finkproject.org/

2009-01-02 Thread David R. Morrison
Richard, Sad to say, the automated package database is somewhat broken, and has been for quite a while. The one person on the fink core team who is an expert at this has had very limited time for fink, so this hasn't been fixed. It would be great if somebody got interested in this

Re: [Fink-users] Cannot switch to unstable tree

2008-11-29 Thread David R. Morrison
You need to run fink selfupdate-rsync rather than fink selfupdate. -- Dave On Nov 29, 2008, at 10:01 AM, Trevor Harmon wrote: Hi, I'm starting over with a new Fink installation after having completely uninstalled the old one. Everything seems to work fine until I try to configure

Re: [Fink-users] djvulibre-3.5.21-1002 fails to compile

2008-11-23 Thread David R. Morrison
I've just committed a possible fix; please let it propagate to the mirrors, and then try selfupdating again. -- Dave On Nov 23, 2008, at 4:48 PM, Mark Reglewski wrote: Hello list. djvulibre-3.5.21-1002 fails to compile. Here are the last few lines of output: creating djview

[Fink-users] Fwd: xdvi-22.85-1

2008-09-16 Thread David R. Morrison
Begin forwarded message: From: R. Edwin Garcia [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: September 16, 2008 6:22:58 AM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: xdvi-22.85-1 Hi Dave, I am trying to install xdvi via fink, but I am getting an error and the compilation is not proceeding. Here is my configuration:

[Fink-users] gnome update in the stable tree

2008-07-15 Thread David R. Morrison
Last night, the massive gnome update which has been in process for many months was merged into fink's unstable tree. This is well tested, and updates by users appear to be going fairly smoothly. Today, we will merge the gnome update into the stable tree. Because we have been unable to

Re: [Fink-users] xfig (from fink) doesn't work on leopard...

2008-07-15 Thread David R. Morrison
On Jul 15, 2008, at 12:35 AM, Patrick Danès wrote: Dear Dave Please accept my apologies if you already received many copies of this message from other xfig users. I upgraded my MBP from Tiger to Leopard, and then reinstalled fink. Everything seems to work well, except xfig, which

Re: [Fink-users] now that's funny: wrong language when the installer asks to accept the licence agreement

2008-07-11 Thread David R. Morrison
That is indeed funny. I think I want to blame Apple for this one, since fink's installer package has done nothing to affect that dialog box. We *do* provide French-language localization for the Fink- specific error messages that you may encounter during installation. (Also

Re: [Fink-users] Failed: phase compiling: imagemagick-6.4.0-1001 failed

2008-04-30 Thread David R. Morrison
it does, it should hopefully work for you. -- Dave On Apr 30, 2008, at 5:12 AM, Jerry Fritschle wrote: On Apr 29, 2008, at 11:09 PM, David R. Morrison wrote: Can you please send me the output of fink list cairo ? Thanks in advance. Information about 6743 packages read in 2 seconds

Re: [Fink-users] Failed: phase compiling: imagemagick-6.4.0-1001 failed

2008-04-29 Thread David R. Morrison
Please run fink selfupdate and try again. I have added a BuildConflicts which should address this problem. -- Dave On Apr 29, 2008, at 3:08 PM, Martin Costabel wrote: Dominique Dhumieres wrote: Updating to imagemagick-6.4.0-1001 failed on all my machines with: ... libtool: compile:

Re: [Fink-users] latex2html problems

2008-02-22 Thread David R. Morrison
On Feb 21, 2008, at 4:49 PM, Martin Costabel wrote: Alexander Hansen wrote: Michael Brickenstein wrote: [] pstoimg: Error: /sw/bin/ppmquant -floyd 256 /tmp/l2h73952/ p73966.pnm | /sw/bin/pnmtopng -interlace -trans 'gray85' img15.png failed: Invalid argument [] It works OK on

Re: [Fink-users] xfig-3.2.4-4

2007-10-31 Thread David R. Morrison
Your problem appears to be caused by dpkg itself (fink's package installer) rather than by the xfig package. As I've never seen this kind of error before, I'm forwarding this to the fink-users mailing list in case somebody has an idea about it. -- Dave On Oct 31, 2007, at 6:38 PM,

Re: [Fink-users] Vim and X11 in Leopard

2007-10-30 Thread David R. Morrison
In Leopard, launching any program which is linked to an X11 library causes X11 to launch automatically. I guess vim must be linked to an X11 library. -- Dave On Oct 30, 2007, at 3:55 PM, Telemachus Odysseos wrote: Hi all, Ok, this seems odd to me: whenever I start Vim in a terminal,

Re: [Fink-users] Vim and X11 in Leopard

2007-10-30 Thread David R. Morrison
: On 10/30/07, David R. Morrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In Leopard, launching any program which is linked to an X11 library causes X11 to launch automatically. I guess vim must be linked to an X11 library. -- Dave Hmm, ok, so short of removing X11 completely (which may just bork

Re: [Fink-users] Problem building gnucash2 under Leopard

2007-10-27 Thread David R. Morrison
On Oct 27, 2007, at 12:25 AM, Mike Zanker wrote: ld: cycle in dylib re-exports with /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.dylib appears to be the culprit. I *am* using the X11 off the Leopard DVD. Mike, This is a known problem with Leopard: ordinary linking to libGL.dylib is broken, and a special hack

Re: [Fink-users] t1lib5-5.1.1-3

2007-08-09 Thread David R. Morrison
The actual error was earlier; could you send me the entire build log? Thanks, Dave On Aug 9, 2007, at 11:57 AM, Mark Sluser wrote: When I try to build this package in fink, I get the following error: ... /bin/rm -rf

Re: [Fink-users] G5, OSX 10.4, and 64bit-cpu

2007-07-19 Thread David R. Morrison
Fixed in fink-0.27.6. Thanks for all the help. -- Dave On Jul 19, 2007, at 8:14 AM, Dominique Dhumieres wrote: Applying the latest changes, i.e.: # different sysctl variables for intel and ppc my $is64bit = 0; if (open(SYSCTL, 'sysctl -a 2/dev/null |')) { my ($key,

Re: [Fink-users] G5, OSX 10.4, and 64bit-cpu

2007-07-18 Thread David R. Morrison
On Jul 18, 2007, at 4:41 AM, Dominique Dhumieres wrote: I have finally decided to install 10.4 on my G5. Apparently the 64 bit capability of the G5 is note detected: 64bit-cpu0-1 [virtual package representing the 64bit capability of the CPU]

Re: [Fink-users] gd2 compile problem using fink

2007-07-09 Thread David R. Morrison
install? Thanks, Matthew David R. Morrison wrote: I have /usr/X11R6/include/ft2build.h . Apparently you don't. Are you using Apple's X11.app, or one of fink's X11 installations? -- Dave On Jul 9, 2007, at 2:45 PM, Matthew S. Moore wrote: Thank you for the quick response! Attached

Re: [Fink-users] fink-prebinding

2007-06-26 Thread David R. Morrison
On Jun 25, 2007, at 4:35 PM, Jack Howarth wrote: Is there any information available on the proper use of the fink-prebinding package? The paraview package in fink 10.4 unstable is taking an abnormally long time to launch the program. The paraview developers believe this is due to the

Re: [Fink-users] fink vs apple libjpeg!

2007-06-04 Thread David R. Morrison
On Jun 3, 2007, at 2:03 PM, Kyle Skrinak wrote: I am trying to compile taskjuggler (outside of fink) but relying on fink's KDE suite of stuff. During compile, I see errors on libjpeg (installed via fink) dyld: Symbol not found: __cg_jpeg_resync_to_restart Referenced from:

Re: [Fink-users] error question

2007-04-26 Thread David R. Morrison
As the error message indicates, at some time you must have had on your system /usr/local/lib/libpng12.dylib, and it is no longer present. Fink prevents you from removing fink-installed libraries which you still need, but when you put things into /usr/local/lib, they override the fink things

Re: [Fink-users] copiling fann on a macbook

2007-03-28 Thread David R. Morrison
On Mar 28, 2007, at 4:47 AM, Luigi Rensinghoff wrote: Am 28.03.2007 um 05:26 schrieb Jean-François Mertens: On 28 Mar 2007, at 05:20, Luigi Rensinghoff wrote: .. /usr/local/include/stdlib.h That must be the culprit ! JF Ok , so this thing is to blame, but what do we do with him ?

Re: [Fink-users] xmaxima failure

2007-03-24 Thread David R. Morrison
On Mar 24, 2007, at 1:52 PM, Stan Sanderson wrote: OS 10.4.9, unstable branch, daily fink updates, Gnome, clisp 2.41-1 installed Two questions: fink info says that clisp-maxima is required for Maxima; however, I have yet to find any problems with currently installed Maxima v5.9.2 (except

Re: [Fink-users] xmaxima failure

2007-03-24 Thread David R. Morrison
a fair number of commands, and that seems to wok quite well. Plotting works fine, too, with both openmath and gnuplot. xmaxima runs just fine - though attempting to launch it from the menu of X11 doesn't work very well. Sean On Mar 24, 2007, at 11:50, David R. Morrison wrote: On Mar 24, 2007

Re: [Fink-users] file index warning: wrong number of days and won't go away

2007-03-18 Thread David R. Morrison
On Mar 18, 2007, at 1:00 PM, Viv Kendon wrote: I selfupdated on a machine I haven't selfupdated for about 3 months (no more than 120 days anyway), and after installing the latest unstable fink it told me WARNING: your info file index has not been updated for 255 days. You should run

Re: [Fink-users] gcc(42) and tar nightmare again

2007-03-03 Thread David R. Morrison
On Mar 3, 2007, at 11:16 AM, Miguel Ortiz-Lombardia wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear all, Trying to update fink today I got stuck again with that tar error: 'file changed as we read it' after the compilation of gcc42 (it happened to me with gcc4 two months

Re: [Fink-users] Timeout on virtual dependency prompt?

2007-02-20 Thread David R. Morrison
Well, what is supposed to happen is that you are asked all of these questions up front, that is, you ask fink to install foo, it says bar or bas?, you answer, and then it is off and running. Are you experiencing a prompt of this sort in the middle of a fink install rather than at the

Re: [Fink-users] Timeout on virtual dependency prompt?

2007-02-20 Thread David R. Morrison
On Feb 20, 2007, at 11:07 AM, Kevin Walzer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David R. Morrison wrote: Well, what is supposed to happen is that you are asked all of these questions up front, that is, you ask fink to install foo, it says bar or bas?, you answer

[Fink-users] Fwd: compiling: gd2-2.0.34-1 failed

2007-02-18 Thread David R. Morrison
Begin forwarded message: From: Louis Zulli [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: February 18, 2007 2:48:58 AM PST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: compiling: gd2-2.0.34-1 failed Hi, Seems to be a freetype related problem. Hope you can help. Thanks, L. Zulli OS X 10.4.8 on Intel Core Duo. fink

Re: [Fink-users] mysterious race condition building mysql

2007-02-18 Thread David R. Morrison
On Feb 18, 2007, at 5:20 PM, Alexander Strange wrote: Downgrading tar to the stable distribution solved it. Maybe we could up the revision and patch the buggy code ourselves? Well, I'm not sure we know what causes the problem. Also, these messages about 'file changed as we read it' occur in

Re: [Fink-users] gwTeX and TeXLive problem

2007-02-07 Thread David R. Morrison
On Feb 7, 2007, at 10:38 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: On 2/7/07, Jens Noeckel wrote: Hi, just a quick remark in case drm (the tetex maintainer) should read this and come to the conclusion that nobody appreciates fink's tetex: I've been using fink's tetex almost exclusively for 5 to 6 years

Re: [Fink-users] [Fink-beginners] fink and texlive

2007-01-09 Thread David R. Morrison
On Jan 9, 2007, at 4:39 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: On 1/8/07, David R. Morrison wrote: Second, it is hard to use an external-to-Fink TeX because Fink puts / sw/bin at the head of the PATH. (This is one of the main advantages of the current system-tetex package, which allows an external TeX

Re: [Fink-users] [Fink-beginners] fink and texlive

2007-01-08 Thread David R. Morrison
Dear Mojca, Thanks for the update about your concerns. When the Fink project was young, we had a number of system- something packages which allowed Fink to use pieces of software which were installed in other ways. Each of these caused a fair amount of trouble, since Fink is a tightly

[Fink-users] concerning system-tetex-20010808-14

2006-12-16 Thread David R. Morrison
Dear fink users, For some time, I've been considering removing the system-tetex and system-ghostscript packages from fink. These packages were created in August, 2001 (as the version number of system-tetex indicates) in order to accomodate users who had installed TeX and/or ghostscript

Re: [Fink-users] [fink-core] debfoster missing some necessary fink packages?

2006-12-07 Thread David R. Morrison
: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Dec 6, 2006, at 11:45 PM, David R. Morrison wrote: Hi Remi. Chris Z. and I just looked at this again. The property Essential does not even make it into the .deb. We're guessing that your installation is still picking up the info from

Re: [Fink-users] [fink-core] debfoster missing some necessary fink packages?

2006-12-06 Thread David R. Morrison
It is true, however, that cctools-extra, fink-prebinding, and ncurses- shlibs used to be Essential: yes (in the 10.4-transitional tree, for example) but are now Essential: no. It's possible that the warning was accurate, because the user had old versions of those packages installed which

Re: [Fink-users] [fink-core] debfoster missing some necessary fink packages?

2006-12-06 Thread David R. Morrison
'Essential' is enough for apt to treat it as essential. Maybe we should remove the Essential: no from the info files? Remi On Dec 6, 2006, at 8:14 AM, David R. Morrison wrote: It is true, however, that cctools-extra, fink-prebinding, and ncurses-shlibs used to be Essential: yes

Re: [Fink-users] Source packages

2006-11-16 Thread David R. Morrison
On Nov 16, 2006, at 6:12 AM, Fritz Wettstein wrote: How do I download and install source packages. I don't know how to define a server for sources in /sw/etc/apt/sources.list. The fink project has borrowed the apt-get tool from the debian project to manage _binary_ packages, but we don't

Re: [Fink-users] debfoster missing some necessary fink packages?

2006-11-07 Thread David R . Morrison
On Nov 5, 2006, at 9:31 AM, Shug Boabby wrote: So are you *sure* it's ok to remove these programs? Are you still on the 10.4-transitional tree, by chance? That's the one way I can think of that an up-to-date fink installation could still consider those packages to be essential... --

[Fink-users] Fwd: libpng3-1:1.2.8-1

2006-08-16 Thread David R. Morrison
Begin forwarded message:From: Peter Dyballa [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: August 16, 2006 5:28:56 AM EDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: libpng3-1:1.2.8-1 Hello!When I want to install libpng3 Fink wants to install glib and glib-shlibs too. What have these "Common C routines used by Gtk+ and other libs" to

Re: [Fink-users] imagemagick-6.1.8-1004 fails to build on Intel Mac

2006-08-05 Thread David R. Morrison
On Aug 5, 2006, at 12:51 PM, Martin Costabel wrote: Toda H.Y. wrote: [] coders/png.c: In function 'ReadOnePNGImage': coders/png.c:1704: warning: implicit declaration of function 'png_access_version' coders/png.c:1713: error: 'png_ptr' undeclared (first use in this function) I got it to

Re: [Fink-users] glib2-2.12.0-102 fails to build on Intel Mac

2006-08-04 Thread David R. Morrison
On Aug 4, 2006, at 2:59 PM, Martin Costabel wrote: Toda H.Y. wrote: --- Martin Costabel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... 686-apple-darwin8-gcc-4.0.1: unrecognized option '-shared' /usr/bin/ld: unknown flag: -export-dynamic collect2: ld returned 1 exit status You should show what led to this

Re: [Fink-users] clamav

2006-07-27 Thread David R. Morrison
On Jul 26, 2006, at 5:46 PM, Andrew Hartung wrote: When running 'fresclam' I get the following: dyld: Library not loaded: /sw/lib/libgmp.3.dylib Referenced from: /sw/bin/freshclam Reason: no suitable image found. Did find: /sw/lib/libgmp.3.dylib: incompatible cpu-subtype

Re: [Fink-users] July is Fink Update Month

2006-07-03 Thread David R. Morrison
On Jul 2, 2006, at 4:37 PM, Daniel Gimpelevich wrote: Instructions should also be included for an upgrade-in-place from the 10.3 tree, since that is also still supported. Good suggestion. There is now a sentence in the news item which explains that the 10.3-10.4 update is accomplished

Re: [Fink-users] pan

2006-06-28 Thread David R. Morrison
On Jun 28, 2006, at 5:49 AM, Andrew Hartung wrote: Yes using Apple's X11. I tried reinstalling it but the download from Apple's site said I have newer software. I was running pan fine, but since the last time I have updated to the latest fink and 10.4.7 Try 'fink rebuild pan'. -- Dave

Re: [Fink-users] update.pl error

2006-06-17 Thread David R. Morrison
I will have version 0.2 of the update script out shortly, which will test for XCode prior to everything else. This should prevent this problem from recurring in the future. John, for your situation, I would suggest manually editing the /sw/etc/fink.conf file so that the Distribution line says

Re: [Fink-users] Serve 10.4 packages to other machines?

2006-06-16 Thread David R. Morrison
On Jun 15, 2006, at 4:01 PM, Kevin Horton wrote: We have three PPC Macs, all using fink, and I have been building the packages on the fastest one, and sharing them with the other machines, using the process described on Benjamin Reed's blog. I have just finished upgrading the main machine

[Fink-users] Fwd: libgda fink

2006-06-07 Thread David R. Morrison
Can someone please help Matthew?Begin forwarded message:From: Matthew Tucker [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: June 7, 2006 11:22:34 AM PDTTo: "David R. Morrison" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: libgda fink here's the entire output of the install:[EMAIL PROTECTED] fink install libgdaPassword:Informa

[Fink-users] CVS (was Re: Fink with XCode 2.3)

2006-05-25 Thread David R. Morrison
On May 25, 2006, at 12:52 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: Well, the CVS issues are not yet even ironed out (no instructions for the general Fink users available that don't require some non-trivial command line tinkering), Martin, Please note that instructions were posted on the web page

[Fink-users] fink commander refuses to start

2006-04-25 Thread David R. Morrison
On Apr 25, 2006, at 6:05 AM, Stefan Müller wrote: Hi, I worked with fink commander on an intel mac, but now it refuses to start: Are you using the test version of the intel binary, mentioned at http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.general/20991 ? Or are you running

[Fink-users] Re: transfig package in fink

2006-04-20 Thread David R. Morrison
This was really for historical reasons: the fink package has had this option during its entire five years of existence, and changing it would have meant that transfig suddenly started behaving differently. I've now worked around this by creating two new packages in fink's unstable tree

Re: [Fink-users] Re: Texshop build fails

2006-01-10 Thread David R. Morrison
On Jan 9, 2006, at 4:30 PM, Martin Costabel wrote: Gary K Olson wrote: [] SDK package /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk does not exist === BUILDING NATIVE TARGET TeXShop WITH CONFIGURATION Deployment === ** BUILD FAILED ** [] powerpc-apple-darwin8-gcc-4.0.0 (GCC) 4.0.0 (Apple Computer,

Re: [Fink-users] Installing geomview on Tiger

2005-12-29 Thread David R. Morrison
Thanks for the help. A new version of geomview with the changes you suggested is now in Fink. -- Dave On Dec 27, 2005, at 1:45 PM, Martin Costabel wrote: Charles Williams wrote: Thanks, Martin. I was actually able to get it to build by simply removing the -force_flat_namespace flag

Re: [Fink-users] Upgrade 0.7.2-0.8.0 does not work

2005-10-23 Thread David R. Morrison
I've put fink-0.24.10-11 into the 0.7.2-updates section of the bindist, which should hopefully improve the upgrade situation. -- Dave Dave Vasilevsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 23, 2005, at 7:33 PM, Martin Costabel wrote: In reality, this doesn't seem to work for point-release

textutils update (was: Re: [Fink-users] pari-gp-2.1.7-1 failed)

2005-10-08 Thread David R. Morrison
On Oct 7, 2005, at 10:54 PM, Martin Costabel wrote:[snip]Actually, the story is even more complicated: I have one machine here which had the same textutils-2.1-2 installed as the other one, but pari-gp built  nevertheless. It turns out that the textutils there was left over from Panther;

Re: [Fink-users] pari-gp-2.1.7-1 failed

2005-10-07 Thread David R. Morrison
This is a very bizarre error. Why doesn't it happen to me, I wonder? The new pari-gp builds fine here, and more importantly, runs without crashing (which was not true of its predecessor, at least not on 10.4). It also builds and runs for Max Horn. -- Dave On Oct 7, 2005, at 2:06 PM,

Re: [Fink-users] fink conflicts with gcc3.1 (= 1175-6)

2005-09-13 Thread David R. Morrison
On Sep 13, 2005, at 6:48 PM, Alexander K. Hansen wrote: On 9/13/05, jkolata [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After a fink self-update, gcc3.1 is listed as outdated but I couldn't update it. Is this a problem? Information about 4906 packages read in 4 seconds. The following package will be

Re: [Fink-users] libxml2-py24-2.6.20-1 failed

2005-09-11 Thread David R. Morrison
On Sep 10, 2005, at 8:00 PM, Martin Costabel wrote: [snip] The real bug here is that the python packages on 10.3 and 10.4 have the same revision number. Since the one from 10.3 does not work correctly on 10.4, the one on 10.4 should have a higher revision number, so that a rebuild

Re: [Fink-users] openoffice.org-1.9m121-59 and libiconv-1.10-6 problem

2005-09-08 Thread David R. Morrison
On Sep 8, 2005, at 6:37 AM, Viv Kendon wrote: On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Alexander K. Hansen wrote: On 9/8/05, Viv Kendon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: openoffice compiled nicely for several hours until -- snip Making: ../unxmacxp.pro/lib/libjvmfwk.dylib.3.jnilib

Re: [Fink-users] Request for the list of your installed packages

2005-09-07 Thread David R. Morrison
On Sep 7, 2005, at 11:39 AM, Jonathan Levi, M.D. wrote: Hello fink team, I received the following message, requesting a list of installed packages and including a shell-script to do this. I have no objection, but I'd like to hear from a member of the fink team who's unconnected with

Re: [Fink-users] dyld: Library not loaded: /sw/lib/libintl.3.dylib

2005-09-07 Thread David R. Morrison
On Sep 6, 2005, at 11:11 PM, William Scott wrote: Hi Folks: After updating I get this error repeatedly upon login: dyld: Library not loaded: /sw/lib/libintl.3.dylib Referenced from: /sw/bin/sed Reason: image not found This happens whether or not I have /sw/bin/sed installed. I

Re: [Fink-users] xdvi error due to openmotif3

2005-09-06 Thread David R. Morrison
On Sep 6, 2005, at 9:50 AM, Viv Kendon wrote:Hmmm, trying to run xdvi give medyld: Symbol not found: __XEditResCheckMessages  Referenced from: /sw/bin/xdvi-motif.bin  Expected in: /sw/lib/libXm.3.dylibTrace/BPT traplibXm.3.dylib is from openmotif3-shlibs-2.2.3-11. [snip]I installed xorg through

Re: [Fink-users] Re: [Fink-beginners] Problem installing hfstar

2005-09-06 Thread David R. Morrison
On Sep 6, 2005, at 11:26 AM, Jonathan Levi, M.D. wrote:At 11:38 AM -0400 9/6/05, Alexander K. Hansen wrote:  And following up on my own post I get the same failure mode asJonathan and Holger on 10.4.2 as well, with$ xgettext --versionxgettext (GNU gettext-tools) 0.14.5 Mine isxgettext

Re: [Fink-users] Problem with selfupdate

2005-06-20 Thread David R. Morrison
On Jun 17, 2005, at 6:34 PM, Martin Costabel wrote: Micha Mutschler wrote: [] mlib.c: In function 'buffer_write': mlib.c:179: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of 'sprintf' differ in signedness mlib.c:192: error: invalid lvalue in assignment [] Failed: phase

Re: [Fink-users] strange fink vs gcc behaviour

2005-06-19 Thread David R. Morrison
On Jun 16, 2005, at 10:15 PM, Kevin Horton wrote:Something very strange is going on here. I tried to use gcc 3.3, but fink refused to comply:% sudo gcc_select 3.3Password:Default compiler has been set to:gcc version 3.3 20030304 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 1809)% fink install diaInformation about

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