Re: [Fink-devel] Volunteer: guile and flex

2004-04-09 Thread Tom Emerson
Peter O'Gorman writes: Benjamin Reed wrote: Tom Emerson wrote: Greetings, I see on http://fink.sourceforge.net/pdb/nomaintainer.php that the Guile and Flex packages need a maintainer. I'm interested in doing this, if no one else has taken them on. I can't speak for Guile,

Re: [Fink-devel] Volunteer: guile and flex

2004-04-09 Thread David R. Morrison
I grok the reason to keep around the different flex versions. But why the older guile? When a package supplies shared libraries, and the version of the shared libraries changes in an update to the package, we keep the old package around so that the old shared libraries are still available for

[Fink-devel] libmng2

2004-04-09 Thread TheSin
For everyone emailling me telling me it's not working, PLEASE update fink from cvs before you email me, and I mean fink it's self not the package descriptions... Preparing to replace libmng2 1.0.6-1 (using .../libmng2_1.0.6-1_darwin-powerpc.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libmng2 ... Preparing

Re: [Fink-devel] libmng2

2004-04-09 Thread David R. Morrison
Justin, Fink 0.20.0 was released about 1 week ago. Does your package work with 0.20.0? I hope so, because very few users understand how to update fink from CVS. If we need to make a bugfix release of 0.20.1 to address some particular problem, please let me know. -- Dave To: Fink devel

Re: [Fink-devel] libmng2

2004-04-09 Thread Martin Costabel
David R. Morrison wrote: Justin, Fink 0.20.0 was released about 1 week ago. Does your package work with 0.20.0? I hope so, because very few users understand how to update fink from CVS. If we need to make a bugfix release of 0.20.1 to address some particular problem, please let me know. I have

Re: [Fink-devel] libmng2

2004-04-09 Thread Koen van der Drift
On Apr 9, 2004, at 2:21 PM, Martin Costabel wrote: I have tried to compile libmng2 with different versions of fink in order to reproduce the error that was reported. I never managed to see the error. It always built correctly. Justin, could you explain what was the problem? See the thread

Re: [Fink-devel] libmng2

2004-04-09 Thread Martin Costabel
Koen van der Drift wrote: See the thread on this subject in fink-users for the console output with the error. I have seen the error messages, but thesin seems to be the only person who understands what is going on, so I would appreciate if he could explain. -- Martin

[Fink-devel] Re: Volunteer: guile and flex

2004-04-09 Thread William Scott
I grok the reason to keep around the different flex versions. But why the older guile? The older guile is creating problems for me if both it and 16 are installed simultaneously. I am trying to compile a program that I am trying to port and package for fink and I can't get it to see the new

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Volunteer: guile and flex

2004-04-09 Thread Martin Costabel
William Scott wrote: I grok the reason to keep around the different flex versions. But why the older guile? The older guile is creating problems for me if both it and 16 are installed simultaneously. I am trying to compile a program that I am trying to port and package for fink and I can't

Re: [Fink-devel] How to test the two variants of a package?

2004-04-09 Thread Michèle Garoche
Hi Martin, If you want to test the bluefish variants, the info and patch files are in the tracker now. I've tested them with old version installed, and it updates correctly, one can switch from bluefish-gnome2 to bluefish and vice-versa too. Only one version is installed at one time. As there

Re: [Fink-devel] libmng2

2004-04-09 Thread TheSin
yes it was fixed before the release of 0.20.0 unless 0.20.0 wasn't taken from HEAD. dmacks fixed it in HEAD and it hasn't been broken since, and I can buil dlibmng fine with fink cvs, I've built it 20 times in a row now and it never fails. --- TS http://southofheaven.org Chaos is the beginning

Re: [Fink-devel] libmng2

2004-04-09 Thread TheSin
the problem was with the order of splitoffs, dmacks added the ability to have none consecutive SplitOffN fields in info files, when he did this he accidentally reversed to order in which they built the deb files, so if SplitOff had lib/lib%N.*.dylib in the Files: field and SplitOff2: had lib