On 1/28/13 12:47 PM, Gerrit Busch wrote: > Dear all, > > having never tried to build anything on my own, I now dared to > build xsane on my system 10.8.2, because it is not available for > that on fink yet. One of my problems was that www.xsane.org is > down for months now, so I grabbed the source from an ubuntu-page. > I tried to follow the instructions on fink's example page (the one > with wax well) and even managed to write an info that passed the > test, even fetch worked. But the build process ended with "Failed: > directory /sw/src/fink.build/xsane-0.996-1/xsane_0.996.orig > doesn't exist, check the package description". The info file > reads: > > Package: xsane Version: 0.996 Revision: 1 Source: > https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/karmic/+source/xsane/%v-2ubuntu1.1/+files/xsane_%v.orig.tar.gz > > > Source-MD5: 7dcbcdf0e83322d7c0a543672d9ca2d8 > Maintainer: Gerrit Busch <XXXX> Homepage: http://www.xsane.org > License: GPL Description: Graphical scanning frontend for SANE > > (XXXX is my mail address, not important here I guess.) > > Does anybody know what went wrong? > > Best, Gerrit > > >
I'm guessing that the problem is that the source directory needs to use other than the default settings, buit it's impossible to say for sure without seeing any output. Try using "fink -vvv -m build xsane" to crank up the verbosity and post the results. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. ON SALE this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnnow-d2d _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
