[Fink-devel] problem with buildlock

2005-01-08 Thread Benjamin Reed
...well, dunno if it's buildlock, but something's gone whacky:

If this is not true (perhaps the previous build process crashed?),
just remove the fink package:
  fink remove fink-buildlock-distcc-2.18.3-1
Then retry whatever you did that led to the present error.
...
disco-volante:/sw/fink/dists/local/rangerrick/common/main/finkinfo/devel 
ranger$ fink remove fink-buildlock-distcc-2.18.3-1
Information about 4465 packages read in 7 seconds.
Failed: no package specified for command 'remove'!

--
Benjamin Reed, a.k.a. Ranger Rick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://ranger.befunk.com/
---
The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues
Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek.
It's fun and FREE -- well, almosthttp://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt
___
Fink-devel mailing list
Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel


Re: [Fink-devel] problem with buildlock

2005-01-08 Thread Benjamin Reed
Benjamin Reed wrote:
disco-volante:/sw/fink/dists/local/rangerrick/common/main/finkinfo/devel 
ranger$ fink remove fink-buildlock-distcc-2.18.3-1
Information about 4465 packages read in 7 seconds.
Failed: no package specified for command 'remove'!
On closer look, that package wasn't even installed... I wonder if the 
only issue is that the error message was printed even if the buildlock 
package got removed properly...

Should be easy enough to replicate, just have a package that fails 
CompileScript.

--
Benjamin Reed, a.k.a. Ranger Rick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://ranger.befunk.com/
---
The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues
Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek.
It's fun and FREE -- well, almosthttp://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt
___
Fink-devel mailing list
Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel


Re: [Fink-devel] problem with buildlock

2005-01-08 Thread Jean-François Mertens
On Jan 8, 2005, at 4:06 PM, Benjamin Reed wrote:
Should be easy enough to replicate, just have a package that fails 
CompileScript.
No need even:
/sw/lib/perl5/Fink# fink remove ztrack-1.0-1
Information about 5062 packages read in 4 seconds.
Failed: no package specified for command 'remove'!
Apparently whenever a version seems specified to fink..
Jean-Francois

---
The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues
Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek.
It's fun and FREE -- well, almosthttp://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt
___
Fink-devel mailing list
Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel


[Fink-devel] Updating freetype2

2005-01-08 Thread Martin Costabel
I have been using the freetype2-2.1.9-1 package from neeri's exp dir for 
quite some time without problems. For all my purposes it was backward 
compatible with 2.1.3 (i.e. things compiled with the old library 
continue to run with the new one, and everything builds against the new 
version without problem).

Is there any objection against upgrading the freetype2 package to this 
version?

I have a reason for some urgency: A long-awaited new version of scribus 
came out today, and it gives me bus errors (crash inside libfreetype) 
when freetype2-2.1.3 is installed, but none when freetype2-2.1.9 is 
installed.

These crashes have been observed by others with the present prerelease 
version of scribus, and I have seen them occasionally myself, but now 
with the new stable version of scribus, the crash is systematic. So I 
cannot release the Fink package for scribus-1.2.1 unless freetype2 is 
updated.

--
Martin



---
The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues
Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek.
It's fun and FREE -- well, almosthttp://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt
___
Fink-devel mailing list
Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel


Re: [Fink-devel] Updating freetype2

2005-01-08 Thread Jean-François Mertens
On Jan 8, 2005, at 6:39 PM, Martin Costabel wrote:

I have been using the freetype2-2.1.9-1 package from neeri's exp dir 
for quite some time without problems. For all my purposes it was 
backward compatible with 2.1.3 (i.e. things compiled with the old 
library continue to run with the new one, and everything builds 
against the new version without problem).

Is there any objection against upgrading the freetype2 package to this 
version?

I have a reason for some urgency: A long-awaited new version of 
scribus came out today, and it gives me bus errors (crash inside 
libfreetype) when freetype2-2.1.3 is installed, but none when 
freetype2-2.1.9 is installed.

These crashes have been observed by others with the present prerelease 
version of scribus, and I have seen them occasionally myself, but now 
with the new stable version of scribus, the crash is systematic. So 
I cannot release the Fink package for scribus-1.2.1 unless freetype2 
is updated.


Martin,
From the DescPackaging of mozilla:
Using fink's freetype2 _ has to wait till version 1.8 to use freetype2 
 2.1.7

Would an update to 2.1.7 (for a short time hopefully) not satisfy 
scribus ?

Best,
Jean-Francois

---
The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues
Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek.
It's fun and FREE -- well, almosthttp://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt
___
Fink-devel mailing list
Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel


[Fink-devel] hardcoded /sw/bin/perl

2005-01-08 Thread Jean-François Mertens
When a user decides no longer to use one of fink's
perl packages, and to use apple's perl, he is left with
a large number of broken pkgs, which have hardcoded
somewhere /sw/bin/perl, w/o explicitly depending on it.
To get an idea of the extent of the problem, I just tested
files in /sw/bin _ and counted just the number  of pkgs (ie, %N),
not splits _ ie, the number of re-builds needed:
# egrep /sw/bin/perl([^5]|$) /sw/bin/* | cut -f1 -d':' | xargs 
dlocate -S | cut -f1 -d':' | sort -u | grep -v 581 |
xargs fink dumpinfo -p N | sed -r -e 's,^%N:[[:space:]]*,,' -e 
's,[[:space:]]*$,,' | sort -u | xargs | tee ~/plpkgs | wc -w
1082
# ls -l ~/plpkgs
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 10519 Jan 8 18:48 /var/root/plpkgs

(the 10519 is to be compared with 17023, a relatively recent list in 
same format for all installed pkgs :
it is more than 60% of the pkgs)

It seems totally impractical to go and scrutinize all those pkgs, and 
fix them...
Woud it not be possible for fink to ensure that /sw/bin/perl always 
exists,
and points to /usr/bin/perl when no pkg perlxyz is installed ?
(Of course the user could do it manually _ but fink pretends to take 
care
of dependencies for him..)
This seems easy to implement, and without pitfalls _ but I might be 
overlooking something ?

Jean-Francois
---
The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues
Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek.
It's fun and FREE -- well, almosthttp://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt
___
Fink-devel mailing list
Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel


[Fink-devel] Re: Updating freetype2

2005-01-08 Thread Matthias Neeracher
On Jan 8, 2005, at 9:39 AM, Martin Costabel wrote:
I have been using the freetype2-2.1.9-1 package from neeri's exp dir 
for quite some time without problems. For all my purposes it was 
backward compatible with 2.1.3 (i.e. things compiled with the old 
library continue to run with the new one, and everything builds 
against the new version without problem).
Thanks for the endorsement!
Is there any objection against upgrading the freetype2 package to this 
version?
There are two issues that I know of:
- The handling of the pkgconfig files (which were new in 2.1.9) was not 
quite correct yet in the version in my experimental CVS. I've just 
updated that to 2.1.9-2
- I didn't do the corresponding -hinting packages yet, although I 
suppose that should not be all that hard.

I'll try to get a freetype2-hinting in my experimental dir by tomorrow, 
so if Jeffrey agrees, we might be able to release an upgrade sometimes 
next week.

Matthias

---
The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues
Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek.
It's fun and FREE -- well, almosthttp://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt
___
Fink-devel mailing list
Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel


Re: [Fink-devel] Updating freetype2

2005-01-08 Thread Martin Costabel
Jean-François Mertens wrote:
[]
Would an update to 2.1.7 (for a short time hopefully) not satisfy scribus ?
Unfortunately not. I cannot say I understand this, but there it is.
I made a freetype2-2.1.7 package (had to redo the patch file), but I 
still get the crash with it. Looking at the ChangeLog and the quantity 
of bug fixes between 2.1.7 and 2.1.9, this is not really surprising. 
What rather surprises me now is that so many things built with freetype2 
are actually working. ;-)

Anyway, I think I'll release the scribus package anyway. I am now 
getting the same crash for the version of scribus currently in unstable, 
so the situation will not be worse than now.

For mozilla, one of the possibilities that were discussed here recently 
was to build it with freetype disabled.

--
Martin

---
The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues
Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek.
It's fun and FREE -- well, almosthttp://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt
___
Fink-devel mailing list
Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel