On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 08:25:44PM -0500, A Scotte Hodel wrote:
> I re-installed fink on my home machine today and there appears to be a
> problem with the latest version of transfig. The result is that
> fig2dev is not installed.
Yes, I encountered exactly the same problem myself today; I already let
the package maintainer know off-line.
> I apologize for not offering a solution; this level of mac/fink
> software is not my expertise at all.
For a workaround, you can remove transfig and then replace it with
transfig323. This should get you a working copy of fig2dev. If you run
into dependency problems (because xfig requires transfig), then you can
use the following command to remove transfig:
sudo dpkg --force-depends -r transfig
This is not a perfect solution, because then xfig has an unsatisfied
dependency. (Could someone please address that as a stop-gap, by
allowing transfig323 to satisfy xfig?) But it seems to work well enough
in practice.
Disclaimer: I haven't actually tried exporting a graphic file from
within xfig, but calling fig2dev from the command line does work.
Side note: the compilation fails as the original poster reported, but
the build job completes successfully. I think this indicates that
there's a problem with transfig's Makefile -- if compilation fails, the
build process should halt with an error message.
> Here's the result in the compilation:
<SNIP>
Theory: could the error be happening because transfig is using the wrong
version of gcc?
When I searched the archives earlier, I came across some postings which
suggested that transfig 3.2.4 needed to be built with gcc 3.1. Even
though I've got both gcc 3.1 and 3.3 installed, the Makefile calls
/usr/bin/cc, which on my machine is a symlink to gcc 3.3.
I didn't have time to actually test this theory, though, and I don't
really want to play around with my compiler configuration any more than
is absolutely necessary.
Richard
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