no i didn't. but i was hoping for a way around the problem without changing sw
in a non-fink manner. that seems like it would work fine, but i have so far had
the policy of not messing with sw manually (i.e. not using fink). do you ever
do this, and is it advisable ?  


--- Alexander Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Did you try installing as root (i.e. using sudo)?
> 
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> Alexander K. Hansen
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> On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, R. Andrew Hicks wrote:
> 
> > i used fink to install the ocaml language, and it works fine.
> >
> > i'd like to make use of CamlImages, which is an image processing library
> for
> > ocaml available in non-fink form at
> >
> > http://pauillac.inria.fr/camlimages/
> >
> > when i tried to install it, it wanted to put stuff in /sw/lib/ocaml which
> of
> > course resulted in a lot of errors like
> >
> > cp: /sw/lib/ocaml/camlimages: Permission denied
> >
> > so my question is, is anyone aware of a fix for this specific problem ?
> > (CamlImages does not seem to be on fink.)
> >
> > it would seem like a general problem for languages (among other things)
> > installed with fink - associated libraries that are not yet finkified want
> to
> > be installed in /sw for various reasons.
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Andy Hicks
> >
> >
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