On Monday, April 1, 2002, at 12:12 PM, Chris Devers wrote: > > At the command line, run > > % sudo fink selfupdate-cvs >
I did this when I saw this posted about gnumeric. Didn't change the symptoms. I ran fink install ircii right after that. Same thing. -- Jason C. > 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 > _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
