I am trying to run gramps so I have been trying to run fink on Mac OS X 10.2.
I am using Fink commander. When I tried to update fink, it downloaded fink-0.20.5.tar.gz, then tried to make it and failed make test Can't exec "make": No such file or directory at /sw/lib/perl5/Fink/ Services.pm line 398. ### execution of make failed, exit code -1 Failed: compiling fink-0.20.5-1 failed this seems to be the error described in the FAQ as needing the developer tools. (1) why are the devloper tools needed for a binary install, surely the whole point of binary is that the tools are not needed? (2) Next day I followed the instructions and selected fink and did a Binary->Install, and this time it said it was up to date. How could it be up to date when the previous update had failed? (3) Later, trying to install gramps, can the report on the size of transfer really be right, because it only says 104MB, but this will be 31.3GB, is there a charcter missing somewhere? 0 packages upgraded, 87 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. Need to get 104MB of archives. After unpacking 31.3GB will be used. Then I tried to install xFree86 as that was one of the dependencies of gramps. (as it was all so big, I thought I had better do it a bit at at time to check it worked) Again I selected xFree86, and Binary-> Install. This time, I had changed the config to a nearer mirror, and increased the verbose level to see the download speed, and I got: Reading package info... Updating package index... done. Information about 1307 packages read in 13 seconds. The following package will be installed or updated: xfree86 The following 3 additional packages will be installed: dlcompat-dev dlcompat-shlibs xfree86-shlibs Do you want to continue? [Y/n] curl -f -L -O http://distfiles.lha.uk.eu.finkmirrors.net/dlcompat- 20030629.tar.gz (4) Why did it not report the expected size of the transfer? This time it failed with no C compiler: patch -p1 </sw/fink/dists/stable/main/finkinfo/libs/dlcompat.patch patching file dlfcn.c ./configure --prefix=/sw --enable-fink --mandir=/sw/share/man checking for gcc... no checking for cc... no checking for cc... no checking for cl... no configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH See `config.log' for more details. ### execution of ./configure failed, exit code 1 Failed: compiling dlcompat-20030629-5 failed (5) Again, why does it need to developer tools for binary. (6) If I get the developer tools and do an install again, will it notice that it has already downloaded the tarball? (The documentation is explicit about many other cases, but not about install). (By the way, part of the reason for the quetsion is that I am on a slow link, so getting the developer tools will be slow). thanks, Tim. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat Briefings & Training. Attend Black Hat Briefings & Training, Las Vegas July 24-29 - digital self defense, top technical experts, no vendor pitches, unmatched networking opportunities. Visit www.blackhat.com _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
