Re: [Fink-devel] control-center problem solved

2002-02-25 Thread Max Horn
At 22:29 Uhr -0500 24.02.2002, David R. Morrison wrote: [... snipped explanation of why shlibs are good ...] David, I think you are preaching to the choir here. Martin didn't argue against the shlibs stuff here, just against the -bin stuff (which I don't like much myself, but oh well). No

Re: [Fink-devel] control-center problem solved

2002-02-25 Thread Kyle Moffett
Uhm... why not just make the header packages (e.g. orbit) depend on the binary package (orbit-bin), which would immediatly solve all the strange problems, and in fact might be required anyway in many cases (e.g. many unix libs requrie their foo-config apps to be useful for development

Re: [Fink-devel] Puzzling issue with CDPATH / libtool / gdk-pixbuf

2002-02-25 Thread Max Horn
At 1:37 Uhr +0100 25.02.2002, Jorge Acereda Maci· wrote: David R. Morrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: installed by the 10.1.3 upgrade. I don't know how to check the version number of sh or zsh, which Matthias said was 3.0.8 in his case. I am running 10.1.3, I have zlib 3.0.8, but gdk-pixbuf

[Fink-devel] Reason to provide better clues w/virtual dependencies

2002-02-25 Thread Bill Bumgarner
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/pythonmac-sig/1042874 It seems Fink is being used by more and more folks that are not necessarily familiar with Darwin or Unix. Providing them with better feedback during the installation process would likely make these folks' lives easier.

Re: [Fink-devel] Reason to provide better clues w/virtual dependencies

2002-02-25 Thread Peter O'Gorman
Okay, what exactly do you mean by better feedback? Peter On Monday, February 25, 2002, at 11:50 PM, Bill Bumgarner wrote: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/pythonmac-sig/1042874 It seems Fink is being used by more and more folks that are not necessarily familiar with Darwin or

Re: [Fink-devel] Puzzling issue with CDPATH / libtool / gdk-pixbuf

2002-02-25 Thread Martin Costabel
On lundi, février 25, 2002, at 01:40 , Max Horn wrote: So i strongly doubt that the system update is the culprit. Rather something else that has been changed recently. Matthias, since when exactly do you have these problems? My problems are different, but also persistent. I compiled

[Fink-devel] foo-bin (con.)

2002-02-25 Thread David R. Morrison
I enclose a suggested addition to the shared libraries documentation. I believe that it addresses the problems Martin has uncovered. Any comments? -- Dave Packages containing both binary files and libraries When an upstream package contains both binary files and libraries, some care must

Re: [Fink-devel] Puzzling issue with CDPATH / libtool / gdk-pixbuf

2002-02-25 Thread Peter O'Gorman
Hi, Your problems may be a conflict with gtk-doc which Masanori hasn't noticed yet... I am sure he'll fix it as and when he gets the time. It is, after all the unstable tree we are talking about here :) Am copying him. Peter On Tuesday, February 26, 2002, at 12:53 AM, Martin Costabel

Re: [Fink-devel] Puzzling issue with CDPATH / libtool / gdk-pixbuf

2002-02-25 Thread Martin Costabel
On lundi, février 25, 2002, at 05:30 , Peter O'Gorman wrote: Hi, Your problems may be a conflict with gtk-doc which Masanori hasn't noticed yet... Bingo! I removed gtk-doc, and the rebuild of gdk-pixbuf completed without a hitch. So there should probably be some --disable-gtk-doc option

Re: [Fink-devel] Fwd: [Pythonmac-SIG] CXX/Numeric problem on MacOSX(was building vpython on MacOSX)

2002-02-25 Thread Gordon Messmer
Your code doesn't look like it's using threads... I missed the early part of this thread. Did you say that this problem is OS X specific, for sure? On Sun, 2002-02-24 at 22:12, Steve Spicklemire wrote: Nope.. no help. It's looking like the problem might be that errno is being set in one

Re: [Fink-devel] foo-bin (con.)

2002-02-25 Thread Kyle Moffett
On Monday, February 25, 2002, at 11:20 , David R. Morrison wrote: Packages containing both binary files and libraries When an upstream package contains both binary files and libraries, some care must be exercised in constructing fink packages. In some cases, the only binary files will be

Re: [Fink-devel] Fwd: [Pythonmac-SIG] CXX/Numeric problem on MacOSX (was building vpython on MacOSX)

2002-02-25 Thread Steve Spicklemire
Well.. that's good news! (I think!) So.. any idea how to find out what resource is temporarily unavailable? thanks, -steve On Monday, February 25, 2002, at 07:14 PM, Jorge Acereda Maciá wrote: Gordon Messmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, if the errno is coming from a different thread,

Re: [Fink-devel] failure report libwww-5.3.2-2 xdvi

2002-02-25 Thread David R. Morrison
fink describe lyx and fink describe xdvi will reveal the email addresses of the maintainers. The download URL for xdvi was fixed quite some time ago. You need to update using fink selfupdate-cvs and then the corrected xdvi-22.48-1.info file will be used. -- Dave

Re: [Fink-devel] foo-bin (con.)

2002-02-25 Thread Kyle Moffett
On Monday, February 25, 2002, at 07:58 , David R. Morrison wrote: Kyle Moffett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday, February 25, 2002, at 11:20 , David R. Morrison wrote: Packages containing both binary files and libraries [snip] I would recommend that the foo package not be foo3. I