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Modified Files: faq.en.html Log Message: FAQ update Index: faq.en.html =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/fink/scripts/installer/dmg/faq/faq.en.html,v retrieving revision 1.53 retrieving revision 1.54 diff -u -d -r1.53 -r1.54 --- faq.en.html 8 Jul 2005 00:53:03 -0000 1.53 +++ faq.en.html 25 Jul 2005 15:34:02 -0000 1.54 @@ -452,9 +452,7 @@ of <tt style="white-space: nowrap;">pathsetup.sh</tt>. Alternately, you can run the <tt style="white-space: nowrap;">pathsetup.app</tt> application on the Fink binary distribution disk image.</p><p>On the other hand, if you only have problems in the Apple X11 - terminal, this probably means that you need to create a <a href="http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/x11/run-xfree86.php#xinitrc">.xinitrc</a> - file and add the line</p><pre>. /sw/bin/init.sh</pre><p>near the beginning (i.e. before any programs get run). Restart X11 - (if running) after you do this.</p><p>These <tt style="white-space: nowrap;">/sw/bin/init.*</tt> scripts do much + terminal, the easy solution is to modify the "Terminal" entry in the X11 Application menu via the <b>Applications->Customize Menu... </b>option. Instead of just</p><pre>xterm</pre><p>change the command field to read</p><pre>xterm -ls</pre><p><tt style="white-space: nowrap;">ls</tt> here means <q>login shell</q>, and the result is that your full login setup gets used (just like the OS X Terminal).</p><p>These <tt style="white-space: nowrap;">/sw/bin/init.*</tt> scripts do much more than just add <tt style="white-space: nowrap;">/sw/bin</tt> to your PATH. Many packages will not work correctly without these additional actions.</p></div> @@ -1440,7 +1438,7 @@ </li> <li> <b>You are installing from source:</b> - <p>If you have a current version of <tt style="white-space: nowrap;">fink</tt>, then typically this error means that you need to (re)install the X11SDK, which is <b>mandatory</b> if you want to build packages from source. It is on the Xcode CD, and is <b>not</b> installed by default. Even if you install XCode, the X11SDK is <b>not</b> installed by default. It has to be installed either with a custom Xcode install, or by clicking on the X11SDK pkg in the <tt style="white-space: nowrap;">Packages</tt> folder of the XCode CD.</p> + <p>If you have a current version of <tt style="white-space: nowrap;">fink</tt>, then typically this error means that you need to (re)install the X11SDK, which is <b>mandatory</b> if you want to build packages from source. It is on the Panther Xcode CD or in the XCode Tools folder of a TIger DVD, and is <b>not</b> installed by default when you install XCode on Panther--it has to be installed either with a custom Xcode install, or by clicking on the <tt style="white-space: nowrap;">X11SDK pkg</tt> icon in the <tt style="white-space: nowrap;">Packages</tt> folder of the XCode CD. It <b> is</b>, on the other hand, installed by default when you install Xcode on Tiger (even if X11User isn't present), but it's still possible for the Installer program to miss a file. </p><p>If your computer didn't come with XCode media, then a disk image for it, containing <tt style="white-space: nowrap;">X11SDK.pkg</tt> among other things, is quite likely present on your computer somewhere-- check for a directory like <tt style="white-space: nowrap;"> /Applications/Installers </tt> for an XCode disk image. <tt style="white-space: nowrap;">X11User.pkg</tt> may be present in that directory as well. </p> <p>If you are still having problems, run </p> <pre>fink list -i system-xfree86 </pre> <p>It should show the <tt style="white-space: nowrap;">system-xfree86</tt>, <tt style="white-space: nowrap;">system-xfree86-shlibs</tt>, and <tt style="white-space: nowrap;">system-xfree86-dev</tt> packages as installed. If the <tt style="white-space: nowrap;">-dev</tt> package is missing, reinstall the X11SDK, since sometimes the Apple Installer misses a file. You may need to keep doing this. If either of the other two are missing, then reinstall the X11User package (same reason).</p> @@ -1480,7 +1478,7 @@ <a name="usage-packages.tiger-gtk"> <div class="question"><p><b>Q9.14: After updating to Tiger (OS 10.4), whenever I use a GTK app, I get errors involving <tt style="white-space: nowrap;">_EVP_idea_cbc</tt>.</b></p></div> <div class="answer"><p><b>A:</b> This is caused by an apparent bug in Tiger's dynamic linker (current as of 10.4.1). You can work around this via prefixing the the name of you want as follows: -</p><pre>env DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH=: </pre><p>E.g., if you want to use <tt style="white-space: nowrap;">gnucash</tt>, you'd use</p><pre>env DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH=: gnucash</pre><p>This method works for applications that are launched via the Application Menu in Apple's X11 as well as a terminal.</p></div> +</p><pre>env DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH=: </pre><p>E.g., if you want to use <tt style="white-space: nowrap;">gnucash</tt>, you'd use</p><pre>env DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH=: gnucash</pre><p>This method works for applications that are launched via the Application Menu in Apple's X11 as well as a terminal.</p><p>You may find it preferable to set this globally (e.g. in your startup script, and/or in your <tt style="white-space: nowrap;">.xinitrc</tt> , which you may need to do to run GNOME). Put</p><pre>export DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH=:</pre><p>in your <tt style="white-space: nowrap;">.xinitrc</tt> (regardless of your login shell) or your <tt style="white-space: nowrap;">.profile</tt> (or other startup script) for <b>bash</b> users and:</p><pre>setenv DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH :</pre><p>is the corresponding command to use in e.g. your <tt style="white-space: nowrap;">.cshrc</tt> file for <b>tcsh</b> users.</p></div> </a> <hr><h2>Copyright Notice</h2><p>Copyright (c) 2001 Christoph Pfisterer, Copyright (c) 2001-2005 The Fink Project. @@ -1488,4 +1486,4 @@ provided the document and this copyright notice remain complete and unmodified. 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