Thanks, Bill, as always for the dedicated support. I've been a fink user, actually due to your packages, for at least ten years.
Maybe it's time to switch to home-brew? Would they have more gtk+2 flexibility? Best, Ed Miller On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 4:52 PM William G. Scott <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Ed (and COOT list): > > I’ve put updated info files here: > http://scottlab.ucsc.edu/fink/finkupdate/ > > I’m trying to get these into fink as soon as possible, BUT there are two > show-stopper problems: > > (1) The old refmac I have won’t compile with the newer versions of gcc, > and we really need a new version of this anyway for coot. (Coot only > requires refmac at runtime, so it can use whatever version you might have > with CCP4). If anyone knows of a more recent version that is available for > unrestricted download and installation, please let me know. > > (2) Coot itself requires a newer version of gtk+2 than what fink has, and > they are objecting that the newer version of gtk+2 has bugs in it that > break other programs, so I am stuck on a pre-release version of coot. > > None of this is at all satisfactory, and I apologize. > > I haven’t yet had a chance to download the most recent CCP4 package, but > from what I understand, it has the latest coot (and refmac), so if you need > the new version, I suggest you do that. > > > If we can’t have a more recent version of coot in fink vs. ccp4, and can’t > have refmac, it kind of makes it pointless to maintain coot in fink. > > Bill > > William G. Scott > Director, Program in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology > Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry > and The Center for the Molecular Biology of RNA > University of California at Santa Cruz > Santa Cruz, California 95064 > USA > > > > > On Apr 24, 2020, at 10:24 AM, William G. Scott <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi Ed: > > > > Briefly, I need to update the package. > > > > Less briefly, I need to change to gcc9, which is easy, and I need to > update to the latest version of coot, 0.9, which is proving to be a > nightmare. > > > > I need to go teach a class and will then get back to you with something > I hope will work. > > > > Bill > > > > PS: If you just want the latest coot, it looks like the latest version > of CCP4, just released, has it. They are ahead of me. > > > > > > > > > > William G. Scott > > Director, Program in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology > > Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry > > and The Center for the Molecular Biology of RNA > > University of California at Santa Cruz > > Santa Cruz, California 95064 > > USA > > > > > > > >> On Apr 24, 2020, at 8:57 AM, Edward Miller <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > >> Hi Professor Scott, > >> > >> I'm trying to install coot via fink on OS X 10.15. This is a clean fink > install, so I completely blasted my /sw directory prior to this. > >> > >> The installation is looking for a gcc5 package: > >> > >> Can't resolve dependency "gcc5-shlibs (>= 5.1.0-2)" for package > "coot-0.8.9-2" (no matching packages/versions found) > >> Exiting with failure. > >> > >> Is this dependency correct? > >> > >> Thanks for your help and for contributing to crystallography on os x > for all these years. > >> > >> Ed Miller > > > > ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the COOT list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=COOT&A=1
