Can someone tell us, exactly how does Fink detect that a valid Apple X11 is present when it installs,
This is a rather complicated procedure which is slightly different in fink-0.16 and fink-0.17. If you really want to know the whole truth, read the file /sw/lib/perl5/Fink/VirtPackage.pm
Basically, it checks for the presence of
/usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.6.dylib /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.dylib /usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xlib.h
and the absence of any user-installed xfree86 package, and it tries to find the version of your X server.
The result of these checks shows up in the output of the command "fink-virtual-pkgs". It should show a paragraph with "Package: system-xfree86", in newer fink versions (0.17.1) additionally paragraphs with "system-xfree86-dev" and "system-xfree86-shlibs". If you look at the Provides line in these paragraphs, you should see at least "x11" and "x11-shlibs" there.
and is there any other way of pointing this out to it when it feigns ignorance?
No. But in all known cases (and there have been *a lot* of messages to the fink mailing lists about this in the past weeks), installing the X11 and X11SDK packages correctly solved the problem. Sometimes one needs to install these packages twice.
-- Martin
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