"unstable" here only is supposed to mean "recently added to Fink, and potentially missing dependencies" (that's the theory, anyway). Our "unstable" designation doesn't necessarily have any coupling to how a project's developers view a release.
Lloyd Wood wrote: > Well, there's always installing from source and getting more help from > configure and make's output, if required. Only if nothing X11-related from Fink that comes from the binary distribution is used. I'm assuming that one can bootstrap Fink on a system without the .la files and have it work. > I'm running Geomview 1.9.4 > happily on Mac OS X Leopard. Fink can be installed, but is not required. > > The instructions I wrote for installing Geomview from source on the > Mac on: > http://www.geomview.org/download/ > should be straightforward to follow - please let me know if they're not. > > (Dave, does your package of Geomview work with OpenGL? That Leopard > linker bug's a pain. Bit puzzled by > http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/geomview > describing 1.9.4 > as 'unstable'.) > > L. > > On 8 Apr 2009, at 17:56, David R. Morrison wrote: > > >> Lloyd, >> >> Actually, what Herb has encountered is an issue with X11 on OS X. >> IIRC, both Apple and the xquartz project Xquartz still has the libtool .la files; for now. >> are now shipping X11 >> without the traditional libtool .la files included, but some >> packages compiled by Fink may assume that the .la's are still >> there. I'm pretty sure there is a workaround within Fink (some >> script to run, or something), but I don't recall what it is so I've >> been hoping somebody else would step up and answer this email. >> >> -- Dave >> >> >> On Apr 8, 2009, at 9:03 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >>> geomview requires a motif clone, such as lesstif. >>> lesstif requires libXt (and probably installs it). >>> >>> This question is probably better asked on the geomview-users list. >>> >>> <http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/L.Wood/><[email protected]> >>> >>> >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Herb Wright [mailto:[email protected]] >>> Sent: Wed 2009-04-08 16:55 >>> To: [email protected] >>> Subject: [Fink-beginners] Geomview >>> >>> Im trying to install Geomview and am getting the following errors: >>> >>> >>> >>> /bin/sh ../../../../libtool --tag=CC --mode=link gcc -g -O2 >>> -Wl,-dylib_file,/System/Library/Frameworks/OpenGL.framework/ >>> Versions/A/Libra >>> ries/libGL.dylib:/System/Library/Frameworks/OpenGL.framework/ >>> Versions/A/Libr >>> aries/libGL.dylib -L/sw/lib -o gvx gvappear.o gvcameras.o gvcamui.o >>> gvcolor.o gvcommands.o gvcredits.o gvevent.o gvfiles.o gvlights.o >>> gvload.o >>> gvmain.o gvmaterial.o gvmnpanel.o gvsave.o gvtoolui.o gvui.o >>> ../common/libgvcommon.a buildinfo.o ../../../../src/lib/mib/ >>> libmib.a -lXm >>> -lXmu ../../../../src/lib/libgeomview.la -L/usr/X11/lib -R/usr/X11/ >>> lib -lSM >>> -lICE -lXt -lXext -lX11 -lm >>> mkdir .libs >>> libtool: link: cannot find the library `/usr/X11/lib/libXt.la' or >>> unhandled >>> argument `/usr/X11/lib/libXt.la' >>> make[6]: *** [gvx] Error 1 >>> make[5]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 >>> make[4]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 >>> make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 >>> make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 >>> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 >>> make: *** [all] Error 2 >>> ### execution of make failed, exit code 2 >>> Removing runtime build-lock... >>> Removing build-lock package... >>> /sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait -r fink-buildlock-geomview194-shlibs-1.9.4-1001 >>> (Reading database ... 83922 files and directories currently >>> installed.) >>> Removing fink-buildlock-geomview194-shlibs-1.9.4-1001 ... >>> Failed: phase compiling: geomview194-shlibs-1.9.4-1001 failed >>> >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Herb Wright >>> Contractor >>> Desktop Group >>> NCBI/NLM/NIH >>> [email protected] >>> >>> >>> -- Alexander Hansen Fink User Liaison ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: High Quality Requirements in a Collaborative Environment. Download a free trial of Rational Requirements Composer Now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-ibm-com _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners
