Re: [Fink-devel] plan

2002-01-21 Thread Max Horn
At 17:59 Uhr -0800 20.01.2002, Gordon Messmer wrote: On Sun, 2002-01-20 at 13:43, Martin Costabel wrote: I vote NO. There are excellent reasons for staying with the present format. IMHO one of the secrets of Fink's spectacular success is just this extreme simplicity of the format of the

Re: [Fink-devel] man package

2002-01-21 Thread Martin Costabel
Christian Swinehart wrote: Here's the bug I ran across: [cds@moth ~] % sudo /sw/sbin/makewhatis /sw/share/man/ /usr/bin/awk: syntax error at source line 20 in function closeline context is return close (pipe_cmd); Whatis /sw/bin/makewhatis? I don't have such

Re: [Fink-devel] db3 ( Evolution)

2002-01-21 Thread Peter O'Gorman
I have thought about this a little more, Option 1) I will make you a 3.1.17 package. You'll have to make sure it links against libdb-3.1 not lib db3 and you'll have to add -I%p/include/db31 to your CFLAGS (the headers will be in db31/db3). The package will depend on db3, and only install the

Re: [Fink-devel] man package

2002-01-21 Thread Jeff Whitaker
Christian: I fixed this in CVS, but at the cost of adding gawk and findutils as dependencies. Maybe Max's thin script idea is the way to go after all... -Jeff On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, Christian Swinehart wrote: On Sunday, January 20, 2002, at 02:41 pm, Jeff Whitaker wrote: I don't

Re: [Fink-devel] man package

2002-01-21 Thread Martin Costabel
On lundi, janvier 21, 2002, at 02:26 , Jeff Whitaker wrote: Christian: I fixed this in CVS, but at the cost of adding gawk and findutils as dependencies. Maybe Max's thin script idea is the way to go after all... Yes, I think this goes too far. Now I would have to install (and run,

Re: [Fink-devel] db3 ( Evolution)

2002-01-21 Thread Patrick Tescher
I think option 3 would work best for now, unless other packages need db3.1.17 (I don't think they do). I don't think we want another db package. I have thought about this a little more, Option 1) I will make you a 3.1.17 package. You'll have to make sure it links against libdb-3.1 not lib

Re: [Fink-devel] Replacing dpkgs

2002-01-21 Thread Finlay Dobbie
On Sunday, January 20, 2002, at 11:25 PM, Peter O'Gorman wrote: I know it seems unlikely, but Red Hat closed my bug with a patch to build rpm on MacOSX, with a comment like: Since Apple is working on this port, we don't need to. (Not an exact quote, but..) Hmm yes, I noticed Dave Zarzycki

Re: [Fink-devel] undefined symboles

2002-01-21 Thread Finlay Dobbie
On Monday, January 21, 2002, at 06:28 PM, Justin Hallett wrote: I don't know where guys look these things up...or maybe it's an experience thing...anyhow anyone know where to find these. Look like the standard C++ library... Try setting the cc to c++ for compilation. -- Finlay

Re: [Fink-devel] How to represent package variants

2002-01-21 Thread Alexander Strange
I mean, would we have 'apt-get install xchat-ssl-nognome' or what? On Saturday, January 19, 2002, at 04:59 AM, Max Horn wrote: At 9:42 Uhr + 19.01.2002, Finlay Dobbie wrote: On Saturday, January 19, 2002, at 04:27 am, Alexander Strange wrote: What do we do about apt-get? Nothing?