On 11/7/06, James Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 2006-11-06 20:12:37 +0000, Martin Costabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
> > Alexander Hansen wrote:
> >> On 11/4/06, Jim Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>> Alexander Hansen wrote:
> >>>> We've had a number of reports of problems compiling popt in unstable.
> > []
> >> The version in the stable tree has been reported to work properly for
> >> people who've had this problem, so the best idea I have so far is to
> >> install that while we figure out what the deal is with the unstable
> >> version.
> >
> > According to James Robinson on the bug tracker item #1572715, the
> > reason for this problem seems to be a bad interpretation of the
> >
> > Source: mirror:master:%n-%v.tar.gz
> >
> > field in the popt package description. It could be that this is tied to
> > a specific version of fink (0.25.0?) or of the fink-mirror package.
> >
> > To test this explanation, it would be interesting to see if those who
> > are having the problem with popt see it also with other packages that
> > have the mirror:master: Source field, for example
> >
> > jam
> > wmmail
> > bsdiff
> >
> > The suggested workaround is to download the source tarball by hand and
> > place it into /sw/src/.
>
>
> I can confirm that "fink install jam" shows similar (mis-)behaviour.
>
> %.acrux ~> fink install jam
> Password:
> Information about 5522 packages read in 1 seconds.
> The following package will be installed or updated:
>  jam
> perl(4670) malloc: *** vm_allocate(size=229376) failed (error code=3)
> perl(4670) malloc: *** error: can't allocate region
> perl(4670) malloc: *** set a breakpoint in szone_error to debug
> Out of memory!
>
>
> Regards,
> James R.
>
>
>

No problems here with any of the packages using fink-0.25.1-31 and
fink-mirrors-0.25.1.2-1 (on PowerPC).

-- 
Alexander K. Hansen
Fink Documenter (still)

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