Re: [Fink-beginners] Perl archived...why?

[James Coyle]

Thank you. Your suggestion seemed to help and I'm ALMOST there. Perl581 did reinstall (although with Tiger comes version 5.8.6....not sure what to do with that) and, there is a problem with gd-graph-pm581-1.43-15 Setting up fink-buildlock-gd-graph-pm581-1.43-15 (2005.05.19-21.44.40) ... Removing build lock... dpkg -r fink-buildlock-gd-graph-pm581-1.43-15 (Reading database ... 6863 files and directories currently installed.) Removing fink-buildlock-gd-graph-pm581-1.43-15 ... Failed: compile phase: can't build gd-graph-pm581-1.43-15 because no package description is available Any more ideas?� Thanks On May 19, 2005, at 10:54 AM, Alexander K. Hansen wrote: On May 19, 2005, at 12:04 AM, James Coyle wrote: I tried rebuilding rmagic....and got error messages. I then removed rmagic and tried to both rebuild it and reinstall it, but apparently the package points to an older version of perl (5.8.1)� than the version that� comes with OS10.4 (5.8.6) This is the error I get when I try to reinstall rmagic now: Failed: Internal error: node for perl581-core already exists Is there any way around this, or do I need to wait for 10.4 packages? Thanks. What happens if you try the methodology from http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/comp-general.php?phpLang=en#node-exists ? -- Alexander Hansen Fink Documentarian [Day Job] Levitated Dipole Experiment http://psfcwww2.psfc.mit.edu/ldx/ On May 18, 2005, at 9:03 AM, Alexander K. Hansen wrote: On May 17, 2005, at 11:30 PM, James Coyle wrote: Yes, the rebuild might be the fix. I tried to install perl584-core and ended up with this problem at first: lib/locale...........................FAILED at test 99 lib/Math/BigInt/t/bare_mbf...........ok lib/Math/BigInt/t/bare_mbi...........ok lib/Math/BigInt/t/bare_mif...........ok And then ultimately got this: Failed 1 test script out of 835, 99.88% okay. ### Since not all tests were successful, you may want to run some of ### them individually and examine any diagnostic messages they produce. ### See the INSTALL document's section on "make test". ### You have a good chance to get more information by running ### ./perl harness ### in the 't' directory since most (>=80%) of the tests succeeded. ### You may have to set your dynamic library search path, ### DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH, to point to the build directory: ### setenv DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH `pwd`; cd t; ./perl harness ### DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=`pwd`; export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH; cd t; ./perl harness ### export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=`pwd`; cd t; ./perl harness ### for csh-style shells, like tcsh; or for traditional/modern ### Bourne-style shells, like bash, ksh, and zsh, respectively. u=11.65 s=8.32 cu=497.3 cs=159.56 scripts=835 tests=81233 make[2]: *** [_test_notty] Error 1 make[1]: *** [_test] Error 2 make: *** [test] Error 2 ### execution of make failed, exit code 2 Removing build lock... dpkg -r fink-buildlock-perl584-5.8.4-7 (Reading database ... 7024 files and directories currently installed.) Removing fink-buildlock-perl584-5.8.4-7 ... Failed: phase compiling: perl584-5.8.4-7 failed Do you think now that I should rebuild Report Magic, and if I I rebuild it, will I completely lose my config files for it? They were a little tough to set up in the first place Thanks, JC I'd say it looks like you need the rebuild--back up your config files somewhere safe and then see if you can reuse them.