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
>


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