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On 8/24/10 8:34 PM, Hanspeter Niederstrasser wrote:
> On 8/24/10 6:46 PM, Scott R. Santos wrote:
>>
>> Hi Dan,
>>
>> Thank you for taking over the maintenance of EMBOSS.  A couple of things I 
>> noticed:
>>
>> 1) While the "slimmed" down version of plplot have reduced the dependency 
>> load of EMBOSS on i386, its still fairly high (at least 85 additional 
>> packages), including python and postgresq.  If possible, it would be great 
>> to have the possibility to install and maintain EMBOSS via fink without all 
>> of these "extras" (whose absence in prior releases or when compiling from 
>> scratch have not impaired my use of this software suite).
>>
>> 2) I now get the following error when I try to update EMBOSS on X86_64 
>> systems (didn't happen before the new plplot was introduced and guess 
>> "wxmac28-shlibs" isn't available for this platform; I consider this another 
>> reason to have a "vanilla" version of EMBOSS available via fink):
>>
>> srsan...@scott-r-santoss-macbook-pro:~$ fink update-all
>> Information about 9342 packages read in 0 seconds.
>> Can't resolve dependency "wxmac28-shlibs" for package 
>> "libplplot10-shlibs-5.9.6-1" (no matching packages/versions found)
>> Exiting with failure.
> 
> According to this page 
> <http://wiki.wxwidgets.org/Development:_wxMac#Building_under_10.6_Snow_Leopard>
>  
> the current Fink version (2.8.x) can't be made to work as x86_64 (uses 
> Carbon).  However, it seems that the latest upstream version is 2.9.1 
> (recently released) and earlier news suggests that version should do 
> 64bit OS X.
> 
> Hanspeter
> 
> 
(redirecting to -devel)

Until such time as this makes it into Fink, unless somebody has another
idea, I think we need to pull plplot, emboss ... from the 10.6/x86_64 tree.

- -- 
Alexander Hansen
Fink User Liaison
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