On 1/6/07, Cancio, Antonio C. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> 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
>

Ah, that's right, I forgot--more current finks automatically update
sources.list from fink.conf.

-- 
Alexander K. Hansen
(akh)
Fink Documenter (still)

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