On Mon, 1 Apr 2002, Jaedreth Skywolf wrote:
> Ok, I'm new to the command line.
We all were at one point :)
> He's put a new package description into the cvs
> unstable? Where is that?
At the command line, run
% sudo fink selfupdate-cvs
And your local copy of the Fink catalog will be brought into sync with the
one available via CVS.
> Chris helped me create a description file manually and a patch file for
> the new version of ircii, and it wouldn't compile before, and it does
> compile now, but apparently it doesn't have all the needed libraries.
Doing these things manually is kind of a stopgap solution -- it's better
to let the package maintainer know about the problem, so that it can be
fixed, placed into CVS, and provided for everyone to use. So treat the
manual stuff I wrote yesterday as kind of an academic diversion for now:
go with the new version of the package available in CVS, which should be
buildable without any problems.
On most Unixes, the build procedure is, as I suspect you're doing here:
% wget http://source.for/your/package.tgz
% tar -zxvf package.tgz
% cd package
% ./configure
% make
% make test
% sudo make install
Roughly. Fink bundles these steps together -- and does some extra work to
make sure that the package will build correctly and run well on OSX, and
also will be organized in a way that makes things easy to remove later. At
a certain level, it's just a wrapper around these steps, so it is useful
to know how to do them -- but with Fink you really never do have to use
them unless you're just trying to learn how these things work. It is
easier by far to let fink do the work for you by typing:
% sudo fink install package
or in this case,
% sudo fink install ircii
This takes care of patching everything that needs patching, gets the
download for you, builds and installs it. See if you can get the package
installed this way.
--
Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Apache / mod_perl / http://homepage.mac.com/chdevers/resume/
"More war soon. You know how it is." -- mnftiu.cc
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