On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 11:49, Alexander Hansen wrote: > On 1/4/07, Cancio, Antonio C. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am in the process of upgrading my PowerBook G4 from OS 10.2 to OS > > 10.4.8,> > and updating fink accordingly from 0.6 to 0.8. After updating > > the system and > > installing the latest version of XCode (2.4.1) I ran the postinstall.pl > > script > > for fink and got the following message: > > > > [dhcp-1396-4981:/sw/etc/apt] antonioc% sudo /sw/lib/fink/postinstall.pl > > Checking system... powerpc-apple-darwin8.8.0 > > Under Mac OS X 10.4.8, Fink must be bootstrapped or updated with gcc > > 4.0.0, > > however, you currently have gcc 4.0.1 selected. To correct > > this problem, run the command: > > > > sudo gcc_select 4.0 > > > > You may need to install a more recent version of the Developer Tools > > (Apple's XCode) to be able to do so. > > > > Reading through this email list leads me to believe that this shouldn't be > > happening -- any 4.0 version should do. > > > > Subsequent attempts to apply "fink selfupdate" and "fink update-all" lead > > to> > no changes in fink -- for example my fink version: > > > > [dhcp-1396-4981:~] antonioc% sudo fink --version > > Package manager version: 0.24.7 > > Distribution version: 0.6.4.rsync > > > > Likewise, updating apt-get and applying apt-get dist-upgrade produces no > > change and it continues to read only packages associated with 10.2-gcc3.3. > > > > Check out http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/fink > > You're still on the 10.2 distribution, which most definitely predates > Apple's use of gcc-4.0.1. Following your method, you also need to set > the Distribution: line in /sw/etc/fink.conf to > > Distribution: 10.4 > > and then do another selfupdate. However, the change in the gcc > version breaks this path in this case. Instead try > > sudo apt-get update ; sudo apt-get dist-upgrade > > to upgrade via the binary tools. > Yes, this did the trick -- with one caveat: I had to edit the file /sw/etc/apt/source.list to refer to the 10.4 distribution as well, as it still was reading files from the 10.2-gcc3.3 package list too. I just substituted 10.2-gcc3.3 with 10.4 everywhere. Then things worked as advertised. Thanks for the help, Tony Cancio
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