This approach does work, but then the package doesn't get registered in your package database automatically. You could, however, install it, do the mods, and then the manual install.
On 6/10/03 1:58 PM, "Jeffrey Sanders" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you just want to modify a program, and not want to do a tarball so you > can poke around the code, I did this with gpsdrive by using fink commander. > Fink commander has a preference to keep the build directory after > installation. The great thing about this was that it kept the source > directory with all of the patches installed. I copied the directory out the > /sw/src directory and into my home directory, made my changes, then just did > a .configure and make. Everything worked as I had hoped. > > > On 6/10/03 5:42 AM, "Alexander Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> If the value you want to change can be set as a parameter for the configure >> script (e.g. "./configure --with-ssl"), then you can modify the .info file >> accordingly, and "fink install" will work as usual >> >> If you actually have to modify the source itself, life is trickier. You'd >> actually have to modify it, then repackage the archive into a tarball. >> >> On 6/10/03 1:37 PM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> >>> Hello all: >>> >>> I have a package on my machine that has a default value compiled in. >>> I would like to change the default value, which involves modifying one >>> line of source code. How can I interrupt the installation process so >>> that I can modify that line, and then restart it so it all compiles as >>> smoothly as I've come to expect from Fink? >>> >>> Many thanks, >>> >>> -tom >>> >>> --------------------------------- >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 401-861-2831 >>> http://sgouros.com >>> >>> -- Alexander K. Hansen Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University visiting MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Levitated Dipole Experiment 175 Albany Street, NW17-219 Cambridge, MA 02139-4213 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Etnus, makers of TotalView, The best thread debugger on the planet. Designed with thread debugging features you've never dreamed of, try TotalView 6 free at www.etnus.com. _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
