On Saturday 23 February 2008 05:55:45 pm Asko Kauppi wrote: > I'm a fink package maintainer, who upgraded to Leopard this week. > > Surprisingly, the support for 10.5.x from fink's side seems far from > ready. I don't know the reasons, but this is rather disturbing. To me, > fink is a method of delivering tools to people liking OS X and working > on the command line. They would expect a Leopard capable installer by > now. >
There are reasons (see below) > Also, building from source did not work (PowerBook G4): > > << > checking for gcc... (cached) gcc > checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: > C compiler cannot create executables > See `config.log' for more details. > ### execution of PERL=/usr/bin/perl failed, exit code 77 > phase compiling: dpkg-bootstrap-1.10.21-1218 failed > > Before reporting any errors, please run "fink selfupdate" and > try again. If you continue to have issues, please check to see if the > FAQ on fink's website solves the problem. If not, ask on the fink-users > or fink-beginners mailing lists, with a carbon copy to the maintainer: > > Fink Core Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Note that this is preferable to emailing the maintainer directly, since > most fink package maintainers do not have access to all possible > hardware and software configurations. > << > > Maybe I need to update the compiler? > > << > $ gcc -v > Using built-in specs. > Target: powerpc-apple-darwin8 > Configured with: /private/var/tmp/gcc/gcc-5367.obj~1/src/configure -- > disable-checking -enable-werror --prefix=/usr --mandir=/share/man -- > enable-languages=c,objc,c++,obj-c++ --program-transform-name=/^[cg] > [^.-]*$/s/$/-4.0/ --with-gxx-include-dir=/include/c++/4.0.0 --with- > slibdir=/usr/lib --build=powerpc-apple-darwin8 --host=powerpc-apple- > darwin8 --target=powerpc-apple-darwin8 > Thread model: posix > gcc version 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5367) > << > You need to install Xcode 3.0 . Every major version update on OS X has required a newer Developer Tools / Xcode Tools , and this is no different. > Anyways, the point is when could a Leopard installer be around. Any > estimate, whatsoever? > "When it's ready". In addition to package updates, our installer itself no longer works on Leopard. > If so, please share that as News on the website, and warn people that > the binary installer is for 10.4 only. > > Thanks. > > -asko > > > On the download page, we specifically note that there's no Leopard installer. -- Alexander K. Hansen akh AT finkproject DOT org Fink User Liaison and Documenter ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel
