http://surfingthetimelesswave.net
> > Reporting that the second attempt to install sawfish failed after
> > running for many hours and removing the db51-aes file we (FC & my
> > computer) found the following issue: [not sure how far up the log is
> > needed to SHOW ample evidence rather than describe it, etc]
> > <paste>
>
>
> Way further up. None of what you've posted involves perl588, and that's
> what is having problems.
>
>
> Fink commander has a preference option to capture a log, so you might
> want to enable that.
>
> I still have FC open, but I'm not sure if it scrolls up in the data beyond
the last "page" . . . I'll see if I can get back into the info to find
another reference to perl588 on this recent failure.
> The above gets run after you build literally _anything_, and so there's
> not any information there.
>
> > Failed: phase compiling: perl588-5.8.8-9 failed
> > <un-paste>
> >
> > It suggests running fink self update--that was done last Sunday--and
> > reporting the problem to Fink core group which I'm doing by CC.
>
> (perl588 got updated in _unstable_ four days ago)
>
> I personally prefer _not_ having people send a message on -users and
> - -beginners and cc -core, -devel, or -gnome-core until we get to the
> point of actually knowing what needs to be fixed in a package. The
> message that comes up following a failed build doesn't distinguish
> between a package whose maintainer is an individual and one which is
> maintained by an entity within the Fink project.
>
That's fine, I was just following the instructions from the failure report
on FC to CC Fink Core Group . . . which I did.
>
> >
> > Got yr suggestions on metacity and/or crafty, thanks for pointing out
> > the problem with crafty. Would Xboard be included as a dependency with
> > one of the other engines?
> >
> > F
> > http://surfingthetimelesswave.net
> >
> >
> >
>
> It's the other way around: xboard carries a dependency on either
> crafty, gnuchess, or sjeng. But yeah, you should be able to use
> gnuchess or sjeng with xboard until crafty gets fixed.
>
Thanks for that info and thanks for the other info on how to run sawfish,
that info will have to wait until such time that it actually can be
successfully installed. I may segue to "metacity" and try that one???
Don't know, yet--looking for something that can do something, etc.
F
>
> - --
> Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
> Fink User Liaison
> http://finkakh.wordpress.com/
>
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