[Fink-devel] the Distribution field

2007-06-17 Thread David R. Morrison
Dear Fink developers, I have added a Distribution field to fink packages which involve python or perl. As some of you will recall, we are sharing files between fink's 10.4 and 10.5 distributions. Also, fink's 10.5 distribution does not contain python 2.3, perl 5.8.1, or perl 5.8.4. The ad

[Fink-devel] maxima update

2007-06-17 Thread Alexander Hansen
I've updated maxima to the latest upstream release (5.12.0) for 10.4. I'm keeping the prior maxima-5.11.0-4 around for a while to make sure that any packages that use maxima continue to function properly with the new version. -- Alexander K. Hansen akh AT finkproject DOT org Fink User Liaison and

[Fink-devel] An option for packages that don't work with non-Apple X11

2007-06-17 Thread Alexander Hansen
We have a few packages in the distribution (often involving Tk) that don't seem to build at all with a non-Apple X11, e.g. sparky-py*, due to the lack of a "/usr/include/X11 -> /usr/X11R6/include/X11" symlink The failure mode is as follows (and it's generally applicable): ... g++ -O3 -ffast-math -f