Damian Dimmich wrote: > Hi All, > > I've been trying to install fink on a 10.4 system from source and using > the 0.8.1 installer - both of which keep failing with: > > ./bootstrap > Checking package...auto/Storable/autosplit.ix did not return a true > value at /System/Library/Perl/5.8.6/AutoLoader.pm line 160. > at /System/Library/Perl/5.8.6/darwin-thread-multi-2level/Storable.pm line 21 > looks good (fink-0.28.1). > Checking system... powerpc-apple-darwin8.11.0 > This system is supported and tested. > > Distribution 10.4 > > The same error is thrown by AutoLoader.pm when i do a binary install and > do an apt-get update/dist-upgrade or try a fink selfupdate. > Fink selfupdate also dies by saying it is too old to update itself. > > I'm running xcode 2.5 (latest one from apple as of two days ago), > although the same problem kept cropping up prior to upgrading to 2.5 > > I tried 'manually' installing everything using dpkg in the binary > installation, which allows me to update all but fink - I could not > figure out how to force an upgrade there. > > Also, as a minor side note, finks failure always leaves a stale lock > file in /sw/var/cache/apt/ which makes the upgrade wait for an index run > to finish for ever (deleting the lock solves the problem). > > Any help would be much appreciated! > > Thank you, > Damian > > > Without a binary, there's no way to update fink, and there hasn't been an official new binary for fink in two years. (unofficial binary solutions exist, but let's start with finding the real underlying problem here).
People have reported issues involving Storable versions that don't match what fink expects of their system. On my own 10.4.11 system, where bootstrapping from the fink-0.28.6 tarball worked as expected, I have: $ perl -MStorable -e 'print "$Storable::VERSION \n"' 2.13 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel
