Alexander Hansen wrote: > 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 > Hi - Are you saying the dmg installers listed here http://www.finkproject.org/download/index.php?phpLang=en dont work?
The result of that is: 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 2.13 Hmm - the error seems to show again. d ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 [email protected] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel
