It seems that it isn't exactly an explicit circular dependency-- if I try to install fink-prebinding, it wants to pull in the 4 additional packages listed below:
$ fink install fink-prebinding
sudo /sw/bin/fink install fink-prebinding
Information about 2172 packages read in 1 seconds.
The following package will be installed or updated:
fink-prebinding
The following 4 additional packages will be installed:
bzip2-shlibs libiconv libiconv-bin ncurses-shlibs
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Failed: Problem resolving dependencies. Check for circular dependencies.
None of those are listed in the Depends line for fink-prebinding, and they all depend on fink-prebinding, so they should be built later.
You may wish to avert your eyes if you don't like ugly hacks. Figuring that I could always recover the .info files from selfupdate-rsync, I ran commands like "rm $(find /sw/fink/dists/ -name 'bzip2*info')" for each of the additional packages (some of which were already installed, just older versions).
The catch (wasn't obvious to me, at least) was that I had to run 'fink index' after removing the info files. 'fink install fink-prebinding' worked like a champ, and it just took another iteration of 'fink selfupdate; fink index; fink selfupdate' to get back to normal.
-- Charles Lepple [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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