[Fink-devel] ld option to supress multiple definitions (from apple's list)

2002-04-23 Thread Chris Zubrzycki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 should we maybe start to use this in our package's LDFLAGS? It might make finding real errors easier, especially with packages like xfree, where I get a *lot* of these warnings. I had wondered if there was an option like this, and now I found it

[Fink-devel] Re: First SplitOff package

2002-04-23 Thread David R. Morrison
Hi Jeremy. The line Replaces: %n ( 1.2.2-2) isn't actually needed, because a package is always free to Replace earlier versions of itself. Also, you should probably move Depends: gnome-libs, gtkmm (= 1.2.8) into the shlibs package. The reasoning is this: a user might uninstall the main

[Fink-devel] parallel downloads...

2002-04-23 Thread Chris Zubrzycki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 How hard would it be to add code to perform x number of downloads at once, where x is set in the config field? just wondering, for people who have fast connections. (would it be too hard to do for a perl beginner?) - -chris zubrzycki - - -- PGP

Re: [Fink-devel] Is abiword still maintained ?

2002-04-23 Thread Peter O'Gorman
Well, 1.0 has been released :-) April 19th 2002 seems to have been the release date. http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=15518release_id=25198 Peter On Tuesday, April 23, 2002, at 04:12 AM, Jeff Whitaker wrote: On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Jin Zhao wrote: Abiword is close to

[Fink-devel] more splitoffs

2002-04-23 Thread David R. Morrison
I have made another group of splitoff packages for the shared libraries project, deposited into the shared-libraries/splitoff module. I will be moving these to the unstable tree after I have added the appropriate BuildDepends entries to other packages, to make sure nothing breaks. It might take

Re: [Fink-devel] ld option to supress multiple definitions (from apple's list)

2002-04-23 Thread Eric Norum
On Tuesday, April 23, 2002, at 06:21 AM, Chris Zubrzycki wrote: should we maybe start to use this in our package's LDFLAGS? It might make finding real errors easier, especially with packages like xfree, where I get a *lot* of these warnings. I had wondered if there was an option like

Re: [Fink-devel] ld option to supress multiple definitions (from apple's list)

2002-04-23 Thread Justin Hallett
as far as I'm concerned if you can compile it, and run it why worry about the warnings. I think it would be better to try and keep as close as the author intended it to be. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Would it be better to use the two-level namespace support of ld instead of fighting against it?

Re: [Fink-devel] ld option to supress multiple definitions (fromapple's list)

2002-04-23 Thread Max Horn
At 8:39 Uhr -0600 23.04.2002, Eric Norum wrote: On Tuesday, April 23, 2002, at 06:21 AM, Chris Zubrzycki wrote: should we maybe start to use this in our package's LDFLAGS? It might make finding real errors easier, especially with packages like xfree, where I get a *lot* of these warnings. I

Re: [Fink-devel] parallel downloads...

2002-04-23 Thread Max Horn
At 9:43 Uhr -0400 23.04.2002, Chris Zubrzycki wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 How hard would it be to add code to perform x number of downloads at once, where x is set in the config field? just wondering, for people who have fast connections. First, you would have to do

Re: [Fink-devel] parallel downloads...

2002-04-23 Thread Chris Zubrzycki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I see what you mean. on a similer note, would it be difficult to make a command- fink downloadinfo packages, or fink install --downloadinfo packages, which would go through the beginning of the install process, calculated missing dependencies, and

Re: [Fink-devel] parallel downloads...

2002-04-23 Thread Chris Devers
On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, Max Horn wrote: At 9:43 Uhr -0400 23.04.2002, Chris Zubrzycki wrote: How hard would it be to add code to perform x number of downloads at once, where x is set in the config field? just wondering, for people who have fast connections. First, you would have to do

Re: [Fink-devel] parallel downloads...

2002-04-23 Thread Chris Pepper
At 12:03 PM -0400 2002/04/23, Chris Devers wrote: On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, Max Horn wrote: At 9:43 Uhr -0400 23.04.2002, Chris Zubrzycki wrote: How hard would it be to add code to perform x number of downloads at once, where x is set in the config field? just wondering, for people who

Re: [Fink-devel] parallel downloads

2002-04-23 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
Max Horn wrote: How hard would it be to add code to perform x number of downloads at once, where x is set in the config field? just wondering, for people who have fast connections. First, you would have to do multiple process (forks). Then you have to manage those somehow. Now what do you

[Fink-devel] node for automake already exists, found.

2002-04-23 Thread Chris Zubrzycki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have seen this error and have had it myself before. I finally tracked it down. I was going through the packages and wanted to give some a try, but got the infamous fink Failed: Internal error: node for automake already exists error. I added

Re: [Fink-devel] node for automake already exists, found.

2002-04-23 Thread David R. Morrison
Great! Now maybe this can be fixed. (By the way, the syntax is = = = , and it's what we got from dpkg. What's confusing is that == is NOT part of this.) -- Dave ___ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Fink-devel] node for automake already exists, found.

2002-04-23 Thread Chris Zubrzycki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I was thinking for build depends anyway, maybe fink could irritate itself and build the stuff that needs alder whatever, and then the newer, or for certain packages, it could build/install itself, and then revery back to the newer version, if that