I may have missed the original intent of this thread, but the thought of backporting to 10.4, or even reinstating 10.4 from trunk is tantalizing to me, being one of the few 10.4 hold-outs (occasional package backports)! Long live powerpc!
Fang > On 1/17/15 1:52 PM, Lukas Wunner wrote: >> 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 >> > > On problem with "#!/usr/bin/env perl" is that every Fink perl5XY package (not > perl5XY-core) has a /sw/bin/perl , and so it might be possible to have a > /sw/bin/perl version which isn't compatible with the current fink code (I > don't recall what versions we have on 10.4, though). > > -- David Fang http://www.csl.cornell.edu/~fang/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
