On Wed, 30 Sep 2015 15:31:39 -0400, Daniel Macks <dma...@netspace.org> wrote: On Wed, 30 Sep 2015 15:13:16 -0400, Daniel Johnson > <daniel.johnso...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sep 30, 2015, at 2:58 PM, Alexander Hansen > > <alexanderk.han...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sep 29, 2015, at 06:37, Alexander Hansen > > <alexanderk.han...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sep 27, 2015, at 22:25, Oner Sufri <oner.su...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I currently deleted oldest version of Fink and installed the latest > > version, 0.38.7. The installation was smooth without any problems. > > However when I try to install some of the packages I needed. I > ended > getting this specific error for all my fails. > > > autoreconf -fi /sw/bin/autopoint: line 454: xz: command not found > > tar: This does not look like a tar archive > > tar: gettext-0.19.3: Not found in archive > > tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors > > autopoint: *** infrastructure files for version 0.19.3 not > > found; this is autopoint from GNU gettext-tools 0.19.5.1 > > autopoint: *** Stop. > autoreconf: autopoint failed with > exit status: 1 > > ### execution of autoreconf failed, exit code 1 > > ### execution of /tmp/fink.0nHgc failed, exit code 1 > > Removing runtime build-lock... > Removing build-lock > package... > /sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait -r fink-buildlock-libidn-1.32-3 > > (Reading database ... 16838 files and directories currently installed.) > > Removing fink-buildlock-libidn-1.32-3 ... > Failed: phase > compiling: libidn-1.32-3 failed > > > > I have OS 10.9.5. I would like to get some help please. > > > It looks like the new version of gettext-tools needs the xz package > > to be installed. Do a “fink install xz”, and that will solve > > the missing xz command. > > > If gettext-tools needs xz, then I assume we need to make xz Essential? > > > > Do we know why gettext-tools needs xz? xz BuildDepends on > > gettext-tools so that could be messy. gettext-tools is not > Essential:yes, so that won't be a problem. But > xz:BuildDepends:gettext-tools, so making a dependency cycle would be > a problem. If I understand gettext-tools (ha!), autopoint can use any > of several compression schemes to create an internal-use archive > of...something. It gettext-tools buildtime autodetects what's > available and hardcodes the autopoint to use that one by default. Our > build is currently non-deterministic in that it apparently whether xz > is present and the resulting executable embeds that info. Seems like > a bug that it doesn't have fallbacks at runtime. But I think we can > also force non-detection of xz at buildtime (just like we do for some > other compression schemes). Testing........
....committed new gettext-tools. A large archive is created at build-time, which is then used at runtime, so it does make sense that the compression scheme would have to be the same:) I dialed it back to .bz2, which is available in /usr/bin. dan -- Daniel Macks dma...@netspace.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ 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
