On 2/18/03 3:27 PM, "Chad McQuinn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Assuming you have the necessary libraries (if any) that it needs, what I did
> in a similar situation was to let fink install the package (from source),
> then when it is finished go to /sw/src, untar the archive, and compile and
> reinstall myself. In my case I wanted to enable gif support in gnuplot
> (which required having my own libgd that supported gif).
> 
> Keep an eye on the options fink issues to ./configure, you will probably
> want to keep all those, and add --enable-lzw (and delete any option like
> --disable-lzw, if present).

What I'd suggest doing is modifying the ConfigureParams field in the info
file for the package, adding/removing options so fink will use them when it
builds itself.
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