Matthew Hirsch wrote:
> I have a developer version of 10.5, which I'd like to run fink on.  I had 
> to manually install fink, since the package installer was looking for 
> version 10.4, but most everything I'm using seems to work from the 10.4 
> fink distribution with the exception of the system-xfree86 virtual 
> package.
>
> If I move the apple /usr/X11R6 to a temporary directory and allow fink to 
> install the binary xfree86 package to /usr/X11R6, then replace the fink 
> /usr/X11R6 with the apple /usr/X11R6, everything works fine.  This, 
> however, seems like a mess that could lead to future problems.  I'd like 
> to force fink to install the system-xfree86 virtual package, if possible.
>
> How can I force fink to think that system-xfree86 is installed?
>
> Thanks for your help,
> Matt
>
> The relevant parts of fink-virtual-pkgs --debug are:
>
> ...
>
> - checking for library libX11.6.dylib... found in /usr/X11R6/lib
> could not determine XFree86 version number
>
> ...
>
> Package: system-xfree86
> Status: purge ok not-installed
> Version: 0-0
> description: [virtual package representing Apple's install of X11]
> homepage: http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/usage-general.php#virtpackage
> provides: x11, xserver, libgl, xft1, xft2, fontconfig1, 
> xfree86-base-threaded
>
> Package: system-xfree86-dev
> Status: purge ok not-installed
> Version: 0-0
> description: [virtual package representing Apple's install of X11]
> homepage: http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/usage-general.php#virtpackage
> provides: x11-dev, libgl-dev, xft1-dev, xft2-dev, fontconfig1-dev, 
> xfree86-base-threaded-dev
>
> Package: system-xfree86-manual-install
> Status: purge ok not-installed
> Version: 0-0
> description: Manually installed X11 components
> homepage: http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/usage-general.php#virtpackage
> provides: x11, xserver, libgl, xft1, xft2, fontconfig1, 
> xfree86-base-threaded,x11-shlibs, libgl-shlibs, xft1-shlibs, xft2-shlibs, 
> fontconfig1-shlibs, xfree86-base-threaded-shlibs,x11-dev, libgl-dev, 
> xft1-dev, xft2-dev, fontconfig1-dev, xfree86-base-threaded-dev
>
> Package: system-xfree86-shlibs
> Status: purge ok not-installed
> Version: 0-0
> description: [virtual package representing Apple's install of X11]
> homepage: http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/usage-general.php#virtpackage
> provides: x11-shlibs, libgl-shlibs, xft1-shlibs, xft2-shlibs, 
> fontconfig1-shlibs, xfree86-base-threaded-shlibs
>
>
>
>   
The developers are working on this, I believe.  This can't be discussed 
further on an
open mailing list due to Apple's NDA.

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