Aaron Thomas
CS IT @ LBL
510.295.8110 cell
On Jul 2, 2013 11:04 AM, "Alexander Hansen" <[email protected]>
wrote:
>
> On 7/2/13 10:40 AM, Aaron Thomas wrote:
>>
>> Nothing installed Mac ports. I blew away the folder several times.
>>
>
> That folder does not exist on a default system, so _something_ installed
there.
Yes, fink installed there. Prior to that, the folder did not exist.
>
>
>> From reading the docs, it would tell me that installing to somewhere
>> other than /sw would mean building from source, and installing to /sw
>> would mean some packages binaries would be ok, but maybe this meant
>> something else.
>>
>
> It meant that our official binary distributions for OS versions that
support them are only built
Good to know. Didn't realize 10.8 didn't have binaries, it wasn't clear
this was the case.
>
>
>> Maybe the build failures were related to using gnu sed, bison, and awk.
>> Fink world refuse to install to opt/local,
>
>
> Yes, because we're trying to avoid overlapping with Macports.
Yes, but I don't have Mac ports, so issuing ./bootstrap /opt/local
shouldn't have had any problems.
>
>
> so I reinstalled to/sw, where
>>
>> it complained about sed. Allowing it to use apple sed let it install
>> to/sw, but the build failures before were not reporting such an error,
>> just failing.
>>
>> Aaron Thomas
>> CS IT @ LBL
>> 510.295.8110 cell
>>
>
> Without seeing a detailed report about the sed issue, it's hard for us to
say what is going on and to fix it. A terse verbal description carries
essentially no actionable information; for example, based on the above, all
I have is "it" failed, and that's completely meaningless without knowing
what "it" is.
'It' is issuing the command ./bootstrap /opt/local. The build failures were
after initially trying to install to /opt/local and issuing fink install
xemacs.
>
> --
> Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
> Fink User Liaison
> My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com/
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