bloer wrote: > Hi all, > I'm having a rather irritating little problem. I am trying to > install various packages on a 64-bit iMac running Leopard 10.5.3. > Some packages install fine, but some will crash during installation > and cause the whole system to freeze. I know there have been others, > but the three that come to mind recently are root5, geant4.9 and > fftw3. I recently upgraded fink to 0.28.2 and X11 to 2.2.1, but this > didn't help. > > The most recent package I tried to install was the fftw3 package. I > can't find any kind of log (not too familiar with fink), but the last > message on the screen were a bunch of errors from ranlib: > > ranlib: file ######(######) has no symbols > > Any ideas? > > Cheers, > ~Ben > > Were those errors or warnings? The latter aren't fatal.
It's almost impossible to diagnose problems from a terse verbal description. fink does have a logging feature (as per "man fink"). The default location is in /tmp, though, so if there's a problem that freezes your system, the logfile would get clobbered on reboot. But you can use fink --logfile=</path/to/logfile> build <packagename> to stick the logfile in a more persistent location. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners
