Hi Alexander,
Okay, its seems that you are correct--I installed the older version of xemacs
as you suggested, and that too causes X11 to crash immediately when I start
xemacs. It seems that my problems are worse than I thought!
The only other thing I did recently was to apply a recent Mac OS 10.4 security
patch. I wonder if Apple broke X11 with this patch. I will investigate
further.
Thanks,
Aaron
--- On Thu, 2/19/09, Alexander Hansen <alexanderk.han...@gmail.com> wrote:
From: Alexander Hansen <alexanderk.han...@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Fink-users] fink installs wrong version of xemacs
To: aschou2...@yahoo.com
Cc: fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Date: Thursday, February 19, 2009, 6:32 AM
On Feb 19, 2009, at 4:52 AM, Aaron Chou wrote:
Hi,
I am running fink on a OS 10.4 system on a Macbook Pro. I had xemacs
previously installed, and apparently when I ran a 'fink selfupdate' earlier
this week, it updated my xemacs installation to a new version which no longer
works. After some trial and error, I discovered that fink now wants to install
by default the unstable version of xemacs 1:21.4.20-1002, instead of the stable
version 1:21.4.15-1002 which is listed for system 10.4/i386, according to
http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/xemacs
The information on that page is incorrect.
This happens whether I install the binary package, or install from source.
Technically, these are the same: you're installing the binary that you built
on your system.
This new version of xemacs crashes immediately when starting it from an X11
window. On my other computer, I did not do a fink selfupdate, and so I still
have 1:21.4.15-1002 which works fine.
I have checked that my /sw/etc/fink.conf does say "Distribution: 10.4" and that
it is the i386 version of xemacs that gets installed by fink. So there should
not be any confusion about the system I am running fink on. Just somehow the
fink package database is not correct.
Is it possible with fink to re-install the old working version. How do I go
about reconfiguring fink to do this? Or do I need to ask one of the fink
maintainers to update the database entry for xemacs to reflect the fact that
1.21.4.20-1002 is still unstable.
Our "unstable" is no reflection on a package's usability. The unstable tree is
intended to be where updates go initially until they're tested enough to go
into the stable tree.
The website seems to have the correct information, but my installed version of
fink gets it wrong....
It does not The website is supposed to be updated automatically, but this
hasn't been working properly. It's on the list of things to fix...
Thanks,
Aaron
You want to install the version from the binary distribution:
sudo apt-get install xemacs=1:21.4.15-1002
(though 1:21.4.20-1002 worked OK for me on 10.4 [10.5, too]; this inclines me
to believe that the package isn't broken)
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