On 7/17/06, Abbott, Ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I'm a matlab user who has encountered a conflict with Fink. > > OS X 10.4.7 (G4 PPC) > Fink Distributin 0.8.1.rsync > > My matlab installation uses the Flexnet license manager ... which recently > became erratic after I upgraded to 0.8.1 using the tar ball (upgrade went > flawlessly!). > > I traced the problem to /sw/lib/sort > > One of the the Matlab license manager scripts (lmdown) includes the line > > sort -n +0 -1 | awk ' > > The sort command from fink complains of the "-1" > > When I modified the license manager's script to explicity refer to Darwin's > sort command all returned to normal > > << sort -n +0 -1 | awk ' > >> /usr/bin/sort -n +0 -1 | awk ' > > My question is: Has the sort command changed recently, or is something more > complicated happening? and, on behalf of the Matlab community, if something > regarding to fink has changed and produced this problem, may I request a > solution? > > TIA > Ben >
Rather than "has the sort command changed recently" the question should be "did I update the package that provides sort". If you run "dpkg -S /sw/bin/sort" what do you get? If your answer is "coreutils-default", then all you need to do is uninstall that--the tools from coreutils will still be usable, but no longer in the PATH. I believe there may be a few packages that build-depend on this package, since they rely on some behaviors that aren't implemented in the system-installed versions of the tools, but I'm not sure about that. (and I'd suggest to Matlab upstream to use the system-installed /usr/bin/sort explictly. That way the only way it will get broken is if a user does something really stupid.) -- Alexander K. Hansen Fink Documenter (still) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
