On 12/27/2014 12:28 PM, Adlai Burman wrote: > Hello, > > I've been pulling my hair out trying to install fink on a macbook pro 10.6.8. > I get the directories installed in \sw but an actual installation of fink > won't happen. > The alerts that I can see from the installation output are: > > checking size of unsigned long... configure: error: cannot compute sizeof > (unsigned long), 77 > > ### execution of PERL=/usr/bin/perl failed, exit code 1 > > and > > phase compiling: dpkg-bootstrap-1.10.21-1220 failed. > > Perl does work fine on the computer and is installed in /usr/bin (though my > computer calls perl in /opt/local/bin for some reason).
/opt/local sounds like you have MacPorts installed. When installing anything with Fink, you should move /opt/local out of the way (rename it to /opt/local-tmp, for example). If /opt/local is not for MacPorts, move it anyway since it seems likely to be interfering with the Fink installation. Hanspeter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming! The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.macosx.fink.user Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
