The project doesn't support 10.6 any more, but I can try to help. Your issue most likely isn't your Perl. The place to check would be in the config.log file in the dpkg-bootstrap build directory.
Sent from my iPod > On Dec 27, 2014, at 11:28, Adlai Burman <abur...@seznam.cz> 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). > > Any help would be enormously appreciated. > > Thanks, > Addie > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
