Hi all, I've got an original 233 MHz Bondi iMac, onto which I have installed Darwin (just that, not Mac OS X) 1.4.1 from the CD image provided by Apple. All in all it works pretty well, but I have had number of difficulties installing fink, and I thought that perhaps someone on the list had some advice for me, or had successfully gotten fink running under Darwin 1.4.1. I've also gotten fink running successfully on several other computers that were running 10.1.
Despite what I heard certain places, neither the GNU Darwin distribution nor Apple's Darwin have curl installed (which is required by Fink). Supposedly there is a Darwin Development Tools somewhere (at least, I found mention of it on Apple's site), but I couldn't find it. I compiled the most recent version of curl by hand, but when I tested it it failed something like 7 of the tests, and didn't really work. Eventually, I installed a curl 7.8 binary, and that seems to be working. But the real problem is that some of the packages that the bootstrap.sh wants to download (gettext-0.10.40.tar.gz, for instance) either can't be found or can't be downloaded. This may still be a problem with curl, I'm not sure. I noticed that once bootstrap.sh successfully downloads a tarball, it doesn't need to try again if I re-run the script. However, I tried installing the packages that wouldn't download by hand, and it still tried to download them, failed, and gave up. I couldn't figure out where I could edit the install script to bypass these downloads/installs (and so that I could just do them manually). So my questions are: 1) Has anyone gotten Fink running on Darwin? 2) Does anyone have any alternate suggestions on how to compile/install fink? 3) Does anyone know which scripts I could modify to avoid trying to download these resources? Unfortunately, I don't have any output from the install script right now... I'll email some later to this list if anyone wants to see it. I was using the source from the Fink source release (18 April) that is here: http://fink.sourceforge.net/download/srcdist.php If this source is out of date (it doesn't seem like it should be) then let me know. Thanks, -- Erik _______________________________________________________________ Sponsored by: ThinkGeek at http://www.ThinkGeek.com/ _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
