On 04/18/02 10:09 AM, "Chris Devers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Apr 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> i gave a friend OSX on an iMac today to learn and play with. >> >> i told him to download Fink which he did (XDarwin was already installed)... >> he is trying to put Gnome on it. >> he knows what he's doing (total geek ;). >> >> is there any special advise or trouble spots he should know about? > > "Never get involved in a land war in Asia." > "Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line." > > :) > > More to the point, just make sure that the computer has the latest version > of the developer's tools kit from Apple (last major update was Dec 2001), > and try to stay away from the GnuDarwin stuff if you can help it -- that > project provides a BSD version of 'make' in /usr/local that interferes > with the default GNU version that Apple provides & Fink depends on. A lot > of the tech support mails recently have been the result of one or the > other of these issues. > > > -- > Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Apache / mod_perl / http://homepage.mac.com/chdevers/resume/ > > "More war soon. You know how it is." -- mnftiu.cc > I certainly have personal experience with having installed GNUDarwin (from the downloaded CD image) after Fink. I had problem with installing programs until I renamed "/usr/local/make" to something else then everything was working well again. Chia Hung _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
