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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