I've had no problems that were not of my own causing using fink on a G5 with Panther. Having said that, I am annoyed by the existence of the /sw directory, mainly because I haven't figured out how to use fink-installed libraries to compile non-fink programs. I am also annoyed by the prebinding warnings in the system log.
I've detailed everything I did to get my system working right on my home page: http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/~amahdavi/macosx.html Specifically, have you tried doing a "fink install system-xfree86" after installing X11, the SDK and fink? If that bails out with errors, then you are guaranteed that nothing else will work. You first have to get that command working without errors. If there are errors, then my guess is that something that fink is relying on in your /usr, /lib, or /bin directories (or subdirectories thereof) has been changed from the default Mac OS X install (changed by a previous install of KDE or some other package). I learned this the hard way with the awk task---I had replaced awk with gawk, and it killed fink's dpkg, causing fink to be unable to selfupdate or install anything. --- Barry Abrahamsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello and goodbye. > > After using fink for more than a year, and despite > some problems from > time to time, I thought I understood how to use it > and how to fix > little problems. > > With the change to 10.3 and the latest versions of > fink there has been > nothing _but_ problems. Installing packages > produced files in my /sw > directory with foreign owner and group IDs every > time (I found I had to > fix permissions after any attempt to install > software); fink refused to > recognize Apple's X11 and SDK, though I reinstalled > fink, X11 and the > SDK three times from zero, each time meticulously > following the skimpy > directions. Finally, trying to build any of the KDE > packages led to > messages about missing symbols - and failure. Even > trying binary > packages just led to strange behavior like amaya > starting up, staring > at me for a few seconds, and then going away without > a whimper. About > the only thing that did work was the binary > installation of abiword. > > I wrote to more than one maintainer, who tried to be > helpful, but got > nowhere. I read this group's archives and found > notes and suggestions > about perl5 auto, bundles, force-removing things and > trying again. None > of it got me any further. > > There's nothing wrong with my X11 installation. It > comes up, I can run > programs. > > Perhaps this isn't all this project's fault and > there's something wrong > with my installation, but I have no way to find that > out, and I don't > have problems with other BSD/UNIX software. I'll > check in again some > time in the future to see if things have improved > but right now I'm > giving Darwin Ports a whirl and so far it's working > better, though the > interface is simpler and more limited and the number > of packages is a > great deal less. > > I know I'm not the only one having serious problems > based on what I > read. I hope you all can fix this and make fink a > productive project > again. > > ===== > Barry Abrahamsen > Seattle, Washington > http://www.abrahamsen.com/ > http://www.AmericanBamboo.org/ > ATTACHMENT part 2 application/pkcs7-signature name=smime.p7s __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree ------------------------------------------------------- This SF. Net email is sponsored by: GoToMyPC GoToMyPC is the fast, easy and secure way to access your computer from any Web browser or wireless device. Click here to Try it Free! https://www.gotomypc.com/tr/OSDN/AW/Q4_2003/t/g22lp?Target=mm/g22lp.tmpl _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
