> Maybe you have a bad tarball: a rebuild will use the same file and give you > the same problem unless you download a new one. > > Do 'ls -l /sw/src/X420*' and compare with my numbers:
Well, I finally figured it out. The source tarballs had the same sizes as you listed, yet the deb file fink built for xfree86-rootless didn't contain all the XDarwin stuff it was supposed to, so I figured there had to be an error somewhere while it was building, so I did a "fink rebuild xfree86-rootless" yet again, but this time sent the output to a file to look at afterwards. And I found the error: pbxbuild -target XDarwin -buildstyle Deployment dyld: pbxbuild can't open library: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/JavaKit.framework/Versions/A/JavaKit (No such file or directory, errno = 2) gnumake[6]: *** [XDarwin] Error 60 That file wasn't there, and JavaKit.framework mostly contained symlinks to nonexistant files and a file named version.plist, but no actual JavaKit file. After talking to people, I figured out that JavaKit is supposed to come from the developer tools, which I had already installed. I moved the entire JavaKit.framework directory out of the way and reinstalled the developer tools, and that did the trick. The directory was populated with more files than were there before, and another fink rebuild built me a working XDarwin. Woohoo. :-) I still have no idea why my original installation of the developer tools didn't install all the JavaKit stuff that it was supposed to, or why my attempts to reinstall it without moving the directory out of the way didn't add the missing files (I suppose the installer just wasn't checking things carefully enough), or why the pbxbuild failure wasn't a fatal error. I'll probably write to the maintainer of xfree86-rootless and ask if they can fix the fact that the pbxbuild failure wasn't fatal, since if XDarwin can't be built that seems like something that should be an error not a warning ;-P but I want to look at things a little first to see if I can tell what actually has to be changed to make the fix. Thanks to everyone who helped. startx works, now on to fun with windowmanagers and things. :-) Sara (who at this point has fink selfupdate'd about 5 times, rebuilt xfree86-base and xfree86-rootless 4 times each, downloaded the developers tools cd image twice, and reran the developer tools installer 5 times or so. Sigh. But things finally work.) > > > > I just did fink selfupdate, and fink rebuild xfee86-base and > > xfree86-rootless, and fink reinstall of them (just in case I > > was misreading the fink man page), and still no luck. > > Anyone have suggestions for what to do next? The builds > > seemed to finish successfully, and I'm not sure what would > > make a package totally not contain things. (If it was going > > to not install some things under some circumstances, I'd > > expect it to still put them in the deb package, and then > > make the decision at install time.) > > > <snip> > > Sara > > -- > Alexander K. Hansen > Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University, LDX Collaboration > MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, 175 Albany Street, NW17-219 > Cambridge, MA 02139-4213 > Phone: 617-252-1818 Fax: 208-988-4057 > > > _______________________________________________ > Fink-beginners mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sara C. Pickett [EMAIL PROTECTED] KB1EUQ Cambridge, MA 02139 http://www.mit.edu/~sarac/home.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
