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
> >
>
>

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