Indeed, thanks Martin to precise the conditio sine qua non. My setup is indeed as you describe: Fink knows its installation as being on /sw
Massimo On Monday, August 12, 2002, at 02:11 PM, Martin Costabel wrote: > Massimo Marino wrote: >> Hi there, >> just to let you know that my Fink installation (sw tree) is on a >> different partition (/Volumes/Apps/sw in my case) but have a /sw >> symlink on the OS X system partition. I have this since 4 months now >> and had no glitches whatsoever (ever). >> It's not a fix in that it looks like it is not a problem ;-) > > I have this as well, and it's not a problem *under one condition*: > > Fink has to be told that its root is at /sw, not at /Volumes/.../sw, > namely in the /sw/etc/fink.conf file, the Basepath: field has to > contain /sw, not the other "equivalent" path. The latter can happen if > you do the configuration automatically and let fink look for this > path. > > So if one has such a symlink, one should make sure one has > > Basepath: /sw > > in /sw/etc/fink.conf. > > -- > Martin > > > -- Massimo Marino NERSC Division - HPC Department Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~marino On leave at CERN, CH, EP Division, Atlas experiment phone: (+41) 22 767-1288 fax: (+41) 22 767-8350 Office: 40-3-D16 alternate email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
