Re: [Fink-devel] Fink CD

2002-04-10 Thread jan . ruzicka
?? What about another commands for fink - 'make-image path' for making ISO image(s) of the given distribution - 'update-from path' for installing stuff from CD Is that a bad idea? I'm speaking for the lazy ones. ?? On Wednesday, April 10, 2002, at 08:44 AM, David R. Morrison wrote: If I

Re: [Fink-devel] Fink CD

2002-04-10 Thread Max Horn
First off, I'd like to keep the discussion regarding a Fink CD completly free of mentioning OpenOSX. I don't feel such a CD should be made to spite anybody, but if at all for it's own good. Anyway, here are some quick thought of mine on this: 1) It will be very helpful to anybody with a not

Re: [Fink-devel] Fink CD

2002-04-10 Thread John Clark
Am Mittwoch den, 10. April 2002, um 06:39, schrieb Max Horn: 3) Yeah, having a logo would be nice for a CD, and for other stuff, too, but I don't see it as a strict requirement... OK, Justin? 8-) In the 60's here in the US we had a 'Rat Fink' icon... but anyway... 4) Face it, it's not

Re: [Fink-devel] Fink CD

2002-04-10 Thread Chris Devers
On Wed, 10 Apr 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know that it seems like implementing the function dwim(x) where x is an expression and meaning of the function is Do What I Mean by x. No need to do this in C when Fink is already written in Perl, right? Of course not -- not when we have Damien

Re: [Fink-devel] A few porting questions

2002-04-10 Thread Benjamin Reed
On Wed, 2002-04-10 at 11:37, Ujwal S. Sathyam wrote: Hello, I have looking at porting balsa, a gnome email client to MacOS X. If someone already has balsa running, please let me know, and I shall cease and desist :-). I started effort after searching the package database and mailing

Re: [Fink-devel] Fink CD

2002-04-10 Thread Justin Hallett
but you;'d be using disk space that doesn't need to be so. at least not for the bin dist since apt can get from cd. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Make a package which uses the Apple installer to install a bunch of .deb files into /sw/fink/debs and a bunch of source files into /sw/src, after

Re: [Fink-devel] Fink CD

2002-04-10 Thread Justin Hallett
agreed :P [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 3) Yeah, having a logo would be nice for a CD, and for other stuff, too, but I don't see it as a strict requirement... OK, Justin? 8-) ¸.·´^`·.,][JFH][`·.,¸¸.·´][JFH][¸.·´^`·., Justin F. Hallett - Systems Analyst Phone:

Re: [Fink-devel] A few porting questions

2002-04-10 Thread Ben Hines
At 11:34 AM -0700 4/10/02, Ujwal S. Sathyam wrote: Excellent. Thanks. Maybe there should be a sys-headers or misc-headers package? Libraries come with their headers, generally. Headers aren't much use without the corresponding library. (you'll compile it, but good luck linking!) -Ben --

Re: [Fink-devel] A few porting questions

2002-04-10 Thread Ujwal S. Sathyam
On Wed, 2002-04-10 at 13:52, Ben Hines wrote: At 11:34 AM -0700 4/10/02, Ujwal S. Sathyam wrote: Excellent. Thanks. Maybe there should be a sys-headers or misc-headers package? Libraries come with their headers, generally. Headers aren't much use without the corresponding library.

Re: [Fink-devel] Fink CD

2002-04-10 Thread David R. Morrison
You are certainly not the first to have noticed that fink's documentation is inadequate. Each time it comes up, the core fink developers seek volunteers from the fink community to work on this. Perhaps people who don't have porting skills but would like to help out. So far, nobody is beating

Re: [Fink-devel] Fink CD

2002-04-10 Thread Alexander Strange
There is a Help Wanted section on SourceForge. We can try that. David R. Morrison wrote: So far, nobody is beating down our doors. -- Dave ___ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel

[Fink-devel] another question

2002-04-10 Thread Chris Zubrzycki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ncurses thinks my termnial does not have color, and I would like to tell it otherwise. Is there any way I can? using a different termcap file does not work, because my function keys which i need do not work then. (this is for giFTcurs) - -chris

[Fink-devel] libtool hacker needed...

2002-04-10 Thread Chris Zubrzycki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a problem with giFT. I need to disable dlopen, and manually add - -ldl to the LDFLAGS, or else it compiles fine, but says it cannot find symbols at runtime. I think this might be because it creates libOpenFT.a libOpenFT.la libOpenFT.so,

Re: [Fink-devel] Fink CD

2002-04-10 Thread Chris Devers
On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, David R. Morrison wrote: You are certainly not the first to have noticed that fink's documentation is inadequate. Each time it comes up, the core fink developers seek volunteers from the fink community to work on this. Perhaps people who don't have porting skills but

Re: [Fink-devel] libtool hacker needed...

2002-04-10 Thread Justin Hallett
I'm sorry I don't remember there being an issue, as a matter a fact I thought giftcurs worked fine?? [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a problem with giFT. I need to disable dlopen, and manually add - -ldl to the LDFLAGS, or else it compiles fine, but says it cannot find symbols at runtime. I

Re: [Fink-devel] Fink CD

2002-04-10 Thread Justin Hallett
IE is fine. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I take it I first need a Sourceforge account, and that IE can't be used to do this? I'll go sign up for one with Mozilla... ¸.·´^`·.,][JFH][`·.,¸¸.·´][JFH][¸.·´^`·., Justin F. Hallett - Systems Analyst Phone: (780)-408-3094

Re: [Fink-devel] Fink CD

2002-04-10 Thread Chris Devers
On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Thomas Peters II wrote: I guess my point is, we really need a lot more disclaimers and finger pointing texts. Something which says We didn't make the Gimp, XWindows, esound, etc. These other people made this stuff, go there for support. This is certainly implied on the

Re: [Fink-devel] libtool hacker needed...

2002-04-10 Thread Chris Zubrzycki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 not giFTcurs. giFT-gtk. I cannot the gtk client to compile with the - --no-dlopen option. Without it, it compiles fine, but It cannot find the symbols in the .so file. On Wednesday, April 10, 2002, at 08:47 PM, Justin Hallett wrote: I'm

Re: [Fink-devel] libtool hacker needed...

2002-04-10 Thread Peter O'Gorman
On Thursday, April 11, 2002, at 10:42 AM, Chris Zubrzycki wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 not giFTcurs. giFT-gtk. I cannot the gtk client to compile with the - --no-dlopen option. Without it, it compiles fine, but It cannot find the symbols in the .so file. What

Re: [Fink-devel] libtool hacker needed...

2002-04-10 Thread Chris Zubrzycki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 when I try to run the damenon, I get [chris@localhost:~/development/local/net$] giFT ** gift-debug:Loading protocols... ** gift-fatal:couldn't load protocol in file /sw/lib/giFT/libOpenFT.so: dlcompat: unable to find symbol OpenFT_init

Re: [Fink-devel] libtool hacker needed...

2002-04-10 Thread Chris Zubrzycki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [chris@localhost:/sw/src/gift-0.10.0-20020408/OpenFT$] otool -L /sw/lib/giFT/libOpenFT.so /sw/lib/giFT/libOpenFT.so: /sw/lib/libdl.0.dylib (compatibility version 0.0.0, current version 0.0.0) /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib

Re: [Fink-devel] libtool hacker found

2002-04-10 Thread Chris Zubrzycki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks a lot...it was even easier than that. here's the diff: - - --- gift-0.10.0-20020408.orig/src/protocol.cThu Apr 11 00:01:49 2002 +++ gift-0.10.0-20020408/src/protocol.c Thu Apr 11 00:02:31 2002 @@ -108,7 +108,8 @@