Hi Alexander, thanks for taking the time to review this. Basically I just did it to give my machine a new lease of life, but if there's interest to ship this in one way or another I'll be happy to make any modifications you deem necessary.
> 2) The section starting with "# user-defined environment variables may > override a package-specific or fink-default value" seems completely contrary > to our intentions. We *deliberately* don't want user variables to modify > anything in a build. Yes, that's a quick and dirty patch I did back in 2007 and which lives in a separate commit. I shall prepare a new fink-10.4.patch sans that commit. Personally I use that functionality all the time because on this memory-challenged machine (maxed out at 1 GB) it's useful to selectively disable debugging symbols, strip executables and libraries or enable Altivec optimizations, without having to change .info files all the time. E.g. I was able to reduce the footprint of wireshark by > 50% that way. > Rather than symlinking to /usr/bin/perl, what might be better would be to > have fink-10.4 Depend on perl5182-core, and to modify All of its its scripts > to use %p/bin/perl5.18.2 via a PatchScript. How about changing "#!/usr/bin/perl" to "#!/usr/bin/env perl" in /sw/bin/fink and the other scripts? The user invoking fink will have sourced /sw/bin/init.sh so that /sw/bin is at the beginning of $PATH, and this will automatically select /sw/bin/perl. Best regards, Lukas ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ New Year. New Location. New Benefits. New Data Center in Ashburn, VA. GigeNET is offering a free month of service with a new server in Ashburn. Choose from 2 high performing configs, both with 100TB of bandwidth. Higher redundancy.Lower latency.Increased capacity.Completely compliant. http://p.sf.net/sfu/gigenet _______________________________________________ fink-core mailing list fink-core@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.core Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-core
