Re: [Fink-devel] AmiWM

2007-03-15 Thread David Lowe
On Mar 15, 2007, at 10:14 AM, Alexander K. Hansen wrote: I'd say a good amount, based on -devel traffic and IRC. (Especially for a package that already builds). Is IRC required? Since i work the night shift, it's not easy for me to rearrange my schedule for meeting times.

Re: [Fink-devel] Help needed: Improving the Package Database (pdb)

2007-03-12 Thread David R. Morrison
On Mar 12, 2007, at 3:39 PM, Martin Costabel wrote: Christian Schaffner wrote: [] 1) Help testing! Go to http://finch.finkproject.org/~chris01/fink_web/pdb/ and test anything you can think of. The bug that the pdb doesn't know about the current bindist is still present, it seems.

Re: [Fink-devel] Help with debugging mysterious tar error

2007-03-10 Thread David R. Morrison
Thanks to a patch written by vasi, there is now an experimental version of dpkg which should be compatible with the new tar, that is, it should not die even if tar encounters file changed as we read it. I would appreciate some testing on this, particularly from those of you who managed to

Re: [Fink-devel] Help with debugging mysterious tar error

2007-03-04 Thread David Fang
read it please help with debugging this? Based on the outcome of these tests, we should be able to decide whether we need to patch tar or dpkg, or whether we need to dig further down. David Fang Computer Systems Laboratory Electrical Computer Engineering Cornell University http

[Fink-devel] tar and dpkg

2007-03-04 Thread David R. Morrison
My interpretation of the early test results reported here is that tar is indeed detecting a change in ctime and nothing more serious. There are two possible solutions to this: patch tar, or patch dpkg. I'm going to advocate that we patch dpkg. My reasoning goes like this: the decision to

Re: [Fink-devel] Help with debugging mysterious tar error

2007-03-04 Thread David Fang
-lockwait -r fink-buildlock-gcc42-4.1.-20070221 (Reading database ... 57360 files and directories currently installed.) Removing fink-buildlock-gcc42-4.1.-20070221 ... Failed: can't create package gcc42_4.1.-20070221_darwin-i386.deb David Fang Computer Systems Laboratory Electrical

Re: [Fink-devel] tar and dpkg

2007-03-04 Thread David R. Morrison
On Mar 4, 2007, at 7:15 PM, Jean-François Mertens wrote: Except that in the thread mentioned by dmacks, it is mentioned that a new version of tar was due yesterday (sorry _ had no time to check, really have for personal reasons no time for at least a week except for the most urgent things),

Re: [Fink-devel] fink and 'make -j numproc'

2007-02-25 Thread David Fang
for the ones who search for the solution. End $.02. David Fang Computer Systems Laboratory Electrical Computer Engineering Cornell University http://www.csl.cornell.edu/~fang/ -- (2400 baud? Netscape 3.0?? lynx??? No problem

Re: [Fink-devel] raster3d

2007-02-25 Thread David R. Morrison
On Feb 25, 2007, at 10:19 AM, William Scott wrote: Matt Stephenson's raster3d package currently depends on gcc4 but breaks when compiled with gcc42. Jack Howarth fixed it so that it now compiles with the latter. Would it be ok if I updated this package in cvs? Bill Yes, I think it's

[Fink-devel] management changes

2007-02-22 Thread David R. Morrison
Dear fink community, We are pleased to announce that Alexander Hansen (akh) has been designated the User Liaison for fink. This does not represent any new duties for Alexander, but is rather a recognition of the key role he already plays in the project. We are also pleased to announce

[Fink-devel] tar/spotlight (was Re: gcc42 mixed result)

2007-01-29 Thread David R. Morrison
On Jan 28, 2007, at 12:14 PM, Martin Costabel wrote: David Fang wrote: [] Perhaps something about Spotlight disabling could be added to the FAQ? It makes a somewhat noticeable improvement on slow machines. I'd recommend disabling for at least the src/fink.build directories

Re: [Fink-devel] gcc42 mixed result

2007-01-28 Thread David Fang
So if I understand all of the comments so far, the problem may be avoidable with an older tar but even that produces warnings in fink. If the hypothesis of Spotlight indexing blocking files is correct, perhaps the answer is for the fink developers to add code to fink that stops and starts

Re: [Fink-devel] gcc42 mixed result

2007-01-28 Thread David Fang
Spotlight does not touch *.build directories. That's why fink.build was introduced in the first place. Maybe the people who have this weird error changed their build directory to something other than fink.build? Martin, Ahhh... [me: starts renaming all his project build directories] My

Re: [Fink-devel] perl module dependencies

2007-01-27 Thread David Reiser
On 26 Jan 2007, at 2:14:36 AM, Daniel Macks wrote: On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 01:48:43AM -0500, David Reiser wrote: Almost exactly 3 years ago there was much discussion about versioning perl modules. Having read several of those threads, I don't feel so bad about not understanding. [wrote

[Fink-devel] gcc42 mixed result

2007-01-27 Thread David Fang
and the entire build process was wasted in the end. I repeated this once more today and got the same result. Anyone care to shed some light? I can provide other information upon request. Thanks in advance. Fang David Fang Computer Systems Laboratory Electrical Computer Engineering Cornell University http

Re: [Fink-devel] gcc42 mixed result

2007-01-27 Thread David Fang
dpkg-deb -b root-gcc42-4.1.-20070124 /sw/fink/10.4/unstable/main/binary-darwin-i386/languages dpkg-deb: building package `gcc42' in `/sw/fink/10.4/unstable/main/binary-darwin-i386/languages/ gcc42_4.1.-20070124_darwin-i386.deb'. tar:

Re: [Fink-devel] gcc42 mixed result

2007-01-27 Thread David Fang
dpkg-deb -b root-gcc42-4.1.-20070124 /sw/fink/10.4/unstable/main/binary-darwin-i386/languages dpkg-deb: building package `gcc42' in `/sw/fink/10.4/unstable/main/binary-darwin-i386/languages/ gcc42_4.1.-20070124_darwin-i386.deb'. tar:

Re: [Fink-devel] Type: perl -- How many versions to keep?

2007-01-20 Thread David R. Morrison
would be called finance-quote- pm581.info), and set the maintainer in that file to None. -- Dave On Jan 17, 2007, at 9:22 PM, David Reiser wrote: I picked up maintainership of finance-quote so that gnucash could work with a recent version. There's a new upstream f-q out, so now I'm trying

Re: [Fink-devel] future pymol-py problems

2007-01-20 Thread David R. Morrison
I've read through the Pymol license, which permits the source code to be redistributed. That means the correct way to handle this in fink is as follows: the fink package manager does the SVN checkout, strips out SVN stuff, and creates a tarball. We then host that tarball on the fink site

[Fink-devel] failure building perl581 module

2007-01-20 Thread David Reiser
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Re: [Fink-devel] failure building perl581 module

2007-01-20 Thread David Reiser
On 20 Jan 2007, at 11:44:53 PM, David R. Morrison wrote: My guess here is that you left out the Type: perl line? The default CompileScript is different for Type: perl packages than it is for most packages. That is the problem (or rather, I deleted it because I thought I was specifying

Re: [Fink-devel] gcc42 standstill

2007-01-16 Thread David R. Morrison
Jack, Putting a line in your .info file which says Type: -64bit should allow you to use the %lib expansion for precisely the purpose that you want. Notice that this type declaration does not need to have any other effect on the package: it won't affect the name or anything else. Is

Re: [Fink-devel] no more -no-cpp-precomp

2007-01-15 Thread David R. Morrison
the use of gcc-3.1). -- Dave On Jan 12, 2007, at 6:00 PM, David R. Morrison wrote: Folks, As part of our preparation for upcoming operating systems, we need to entirely eliminate -no-cpp-precomp from the 10.4 tree, at least for those packages which use gcc-4.0 (and don't force

Re: [Fink-devel] multilib builds

2007-01-13 Thread David R. Morrison
On Jan 12, 2007, at 8:20 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: On 1/12/07, Jack Howarth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm still unclear how we can leverage the architecture Shlibs field for the multilib build of the gcc42 package. The standard multilib installation for gcc is to have the shared libs

[Fink-devel] go with newer glib2, or try to exclude 1 or 2 'bad' versions?

2007-01-04 Thread David Reiser
warnings in the xterminal window. Should I try to write a depends versioning declaration that excludes glib2 2.12.5 and 2.12.6 (I don't think 2.12.6 ever made it to fink)? Or do I just say glib2-shlibs (= 2.12.7)? Dave -- David Reiser [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Fink-devel] install svn oddity

2006-12-17 Thread David R. Morrison
On Dec 17, 2006, at 9:54 AM, Jack Howarth wrote: Also, what is up with all the instances of... tar: -: file name read contains nul character There is a bug in the way that the latest tar interacts with dpkg; this is harmless, but I believe that a fix (for dpkg) is on the way. -- Dave

[Fink-devel] echo -n now deprecated

2006-12-16 Thread David R . Morrison
As mentioned on the new preparing for 10.5 page on the fink wiki, echo -n is now deprecated in fink. I have edited the vast majority of packages where this occurs to conform to the new version. Instead of echo -n string one should now write /bin/echo string\c (See man echo.) This

Re: [Fink-devel] echo -n now deprecated

2006-12-16 Thread David R. Morrison
behind darwin... JF Mertens On 17 Dec 2006, at 00:49, David R.Morrison wrote: As mentioned on the new preparing for 10.5 page on the fink wiki, echo -n is now deprecated in fink. I have edited the vast majority of packages where this occurs to conform to the new version. Instead

Re: [Fink-devel] echo -n now deprecated

2006-12-16 Thread David R. Morrison
On Dec 16, 2006, at 6:11 PM, Jean-François Mertens wrote: On 17 Dec 2006, at 02:38, David R. Morrison wrote: The reason for the /bin has to do with behaviors of different shells in Tiger. Without writing /bin/echo, the 'echo' command is processed as a shell built-in, and the results

[Fink-devel] Regarding the statistics gathering and privacy.

2006-12-06 Thread David H.
Dear Asko. As someone who watches the legal side of what Fink is doing I can assure you that we cannot retain any information which would enable us to identify the user. Legally that would put too many obligations on us and to have significant statistics that is not necessary. However,

Re: [Fink-devel] What feature would you like to see in fink/Fink?

2006-12-06 Thread David Reiser
help jog my memory about what I may have been thinking or attempting. Dave -- David Reiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get

Re: [Fink-devel] New Fink Feature: Interactive Control of unstable

2006-12-05 Thread David R. Morrison
That's great! I wonder whether, when a user has changed the Trees entry, fink should automatically do a selfupdate at the end of 'fink configure'? -- Dave On Dec 5, 2006, at 12:30 AM, Daniel Macks wrote: As part of 'fink configure', HEAD now offers to enable/disable the unstable entries

Re: [Fink-devel] New Fink Feature: Interactive Control of unstable

2006-12-05 Thread David R. Morrison
On Dec 5, 2006, at 11:03 AM, TheSin wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 also on this topic, it's a long standing issue and I keep forgetting to mention it, but when you do the selfupdate from stable to unstable fink dies on gettext you ened to manually do fink

Re: [Fink-devel] another crypto question

2006-12-05 Thread David Reiser
On Dec 1, 2006, at 12:18 AM, David Reiser wrote: On Nov 30, 2006, at 7:36 AM, Chris Zubrzycki wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Nov 29, 2006, at 10:22 PM, David Reiser wrote: Configure checks for the presence of 2 versions of libsoup, and if neither is present

Re: [Fink-devel] What feature would you like to see in fink/Fink?

2006-12-05 Thread David Fang
by parallel-make. With most Macs shipping with 2+ cores these days, informed users could more easily take advantage of multi-processors. David (anxiously awaiting quad-quad Macs) - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence

[Fink-devel] Shlibs policy modification (64bit libraries)

2006-12-03 Thread David R. Morrison
Fink's Shlibs policy has been updated to handle 64bit libraries and 'fat' libraries. Effective immediately, any fink package which installs shared 64bit or 'fat' libraries should use a modified form of the Shlibs field in which either 64 or 32-64, as appropriate, has been appended to the

Re: [Fink-devel] gnupg2

2006-12-02 Thread David H.
Cory, Benjamin, go ahead and touch my packages, I do not have time for that right now. -d - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your

Re: [Fink-devel] libmpfr1, libmpfr1-64bit and gcc42

2006-11-30 Thread David R. Morrison
Jack, You may or may not have noticed that I updated gmp-64bit yesterday to use the new, architecture-dependent, installation location for libraries (/sw/lib/ppc64 or /sw/lib/x86_64). These locations are also now documented in the packaging manual (section 4.2). I will revise

[Fink-devel] 64bit shared libraries

2006-11-30 Thread David R. Morrison
Dear fink developers, I realized today that there is another wrinkle in the discussions we've been having about 64bit libraries. I've gone ahead an implemented the policy part of the previous discussion -- architecture-dependent storage locations for 64bit libraries -- and we now have

Re: [Fink-devel] 64bit shared libraries

2006-11-30 Thread David R. Morrison
On Nov 30, 2006, at 9:47 AM, David R. Morrison wrote: We could have %type_bit[-64bit] which strips off leading '-' if present, trailing 'bit' if present, and chucks out the rest -- this would work for both. But I don't like that too well, and am very open to suggestions. Maybe

Re: [Fink-devel] libmpfr1, libmpfr1-64bit and gcc42

2006-11-30 Thread David Fang
. FWIW, I tested these out RC-1 (make check) on the various Macs I have around, and all their tests passed. Looks good. Thanks again for all the maintainence work on these. David Fang Computer Systems Laboratory Electrical Computer Engineering Cornell University http://www.csl.cornell.edu/~fang

Re: [Fink-devel] 64bit shared libraries

2006-11-30 Thread David R. Morrison
On Nov 30, 2006, at 12:18 PM, Chris Zubrzycki wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Nov 30, 2006, at 12:55 PM, David R. Morrison wrote: On Nov 30, 2006, at 9:47 AM, David R. Morrison wrote: We could have %type_bit[-64bit] which strips off leading '-' if present

Re: [Fink-devel] another crypto question

2006-11-30 Thread David Reiser
On Nov 30, 2006, at 7:36 AM, Chris Zubrzycki wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Nov 29, 2006, at 10:22 PM, David Reiser wrote: Configure checks for the presence of 2 versions of libsoup, and if neither is present, testgtkhtml.c isn't compiled. Furthermore, when

Re: [Fink-devel] another crypto question

2006-11-29 Thread David Reiser
On Nov 29, 2006, at 11:52 AM, Sebastien Maret wrote: David Reiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] I've found that if I strip the crypto dependencies from the info file and add BuildConflicts: libsoup-everything-but-shlibs, gtkhtml3.8.15-3.10.2 will build and the resulting library is drop

[Fink-devel] Cross posting.

2006-11-27 Thread David H.
I'd like to see a feature that'd slap people for stupidly cross-posting... Dear Timothy, I am sorry that my cross-posting has offended you. The message was sent twice on accident. Please also note that I stated quite clearly that this message has been cross posted. The reason for that is

Re: [Fink-devel] fink-mirrors sourceforge update

2006-11-27 Thread David R. Morrison
Martin, just to clarify: Jesse has volunteered to help keep fink's list of sourceforge mirrors current, by comparing to sourceforge's own list of its mirrors and doing other testing. -- Dave On Nov 26, 2006, at 10:50 PM, Martin Costabel wrote: Jesse W wrote: Suggested update to

[Fink-devel] another crypto question

2006-11-26 Thread David Reiser
keeping a really useful base gnucash 2.0.x in crypto. (direct online banking connections using aqbanking will always force the 'full' version into crypto). Dave -- David Reiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Take Surveys. Earn Cash

Re: [Fink-devel] What feature would you like to see in fink/Fink?

2006-11-24 Thread David Fang
When the user decides to remove a packet he installed, fink should be able to remove packets that are no longer necessary. I can see one obvious problem with such a feature, which has already bitten me using aptitude under Debian (has this built in). Package A has a dependency causes

[Fink-devel] What feature would you like to see in fink/Fink?

2006-11-23 Thread David H
Dear community. Reading the Wiki we have some very technical ideas on how to improve fink. This thread is meant for you and the quirks you have noticed. For the developers as well as the users. I will try to track all the feature requests that I might see in this thread. They will be added to

[Fink-devel] What feature would you like to see in fink/Fink?

2006-11-23 Thread David H.
Dear community. Reading the Wiki we have some very technical ideas on how to improve fink. This thread is meant for you and the quirks you have noticed. For the developers as well as the users. I will try to track all the feature requests that I might see in this thread. They will be added to

Re: [Fink-devel] 64bit libraries and a new percent expansion

2006-11-22 Thread David R. Morrison
That's already there (added last summer): a virtual package called 64bit-cpu which you may add to Depends or BuildDepends where appropriate. -- Dave On Nov 22, 2006, at 7:06 AM, Jack Howarth wrote: David, While you are adding this to fink, would it be possible to use some MacOS X

Re: [Fink-devel] 64bit libraries and a new percent expansion

2006-11-22 Thread David Fang
will fail if 64-bit is unsupported. Does this suffice? I was able to test an early draft of your gcc4 packaging that way (back when we wanted to conditionally --disable-multilib). Maybe even useful as a pseudo-package for 64b dependency tracking? David Fang Computer Systems Laboratory

Re: [Fink-devel] 64bit libraries and a new percent expansion

2006-11-22 Thread David Fang
Heh, nevermind, found the 64bit-cpu package... as mentioned in other reply! *hides* - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions

[Fink-devel] 64bit libraries and a new percent expansion

2006-11-18 Thread David R. Morrison
Dear fink developers, I solicit your comments on the proposals below to (1) change the storage location for 64bit libraries and formalize this into policy, and (2) add a new percent expansion to fink, one whose value would be dependent on some other things. The issue is the correct storage

Re: [Fink-devel] 64bit libraries and a new percent expansion

2006-11-18 Thread David R. Morrison
A quick followup thought: if we add --libdir='${prefix}/%lib' to the % c defaults, then we should introduce a NoSetLibdir command to disable that when necessary. -- Dave On Nov 18, 2006, at 8:43 AM, David R. Morrison wrote: Dear fink developers, I solicit your comments on the proposals

Re: [Fink-devel] multiple ssl-enabled dependencies

2006-11-15 Thread David Reiser
On Nov 15, 2006, at 8:32 AM, Peter O'Gorman wrote: On Nov 15, 2006, at 2:44 PM, David Reiser wrote: I've been wrangling with gnucash dependencies for a while. Early on it was possible to avoid the crypto tree by getting unified versions of libofx and crypt-ssleay-pm packaged. Gwenhywfar

Re: [Fink-devel] multiple ssl-enabled dependencies

2006-11-15 Thread David Reiser
and aqbanking comes from gwen's implementation of hbci crypt tokens. The openssl is fine, but additional crypto requires distribution as source. (Unless I'm misunderstanding the extent of hbci cryptography vs. openssl links used.) -- David Reiser [EMAIL PROTECTED

[Fink-devel] multiple ssl-enabled dependencies

2006-11-14 Thread David Reiser
buys a lot for gnucash. At least there can be a binary version that does everything except direct online bank connections. Dave -- David Reiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join

[Fink-devel] Fink Improvements was (SUMMARY: fink vs. alternatives)

2006-11-11 Thread David H
Dear Developers and Users. In the wake of the ongoing discussion I am going to offer myself as an archiver. The Fink Wiki is of course there for everyone to add their ideas and improvements, but history has shown that human mankind is 'lazy' I will track the threads and I will try to extract

Re: [Fink-devel] fink vs. the alternatives

2006-11-09 Thread David H.
Hi folks: Hello Bill. Periodically, I see posted on other mailing lists or bulletin boards a question like should I use fink or Darwinports or ...? I'm not sure what it says about my state of mind, but I always read these and come away somewhat disappointed, because fink often seems to

Re: [Fink-devel] fink vs. the alternatives

2006-11-09 Thread David Fang
text editor, and insert the following magic words on line...) Fang David Fang Computer Systems Laboratory Electrical Computer Engineering Cornell University http://www.csl.cornell.edu/~fang/ -- (2400 baud? Netscape 3.0?? lynx??? No problem

Re: [Fink-devel] fink vs. the alternatives

2006-11-08 Thread David R. Morrison
Bill, I think you've raised a valid concern. The big problem, as I see it, is that the fink project doesn't have the manpower to put fink into the kind of better shape which would make users happier about it. And, not to put too fine a point on it, the fact that not only users, but also

Re: [Fink-devel] gcc4 4.2 test packaging

2006-10-28 Thread David Fang
On Oct 28, 2006, at 11:45 PM, Remi Mommsen wrote: Hi Jack, On Oct 26, 2006, at 1:13 PM, Jack Howarth wrote: David, I think we should be able to get this to work with... --- gcc4.info 2006-10-26 10:17:56.0 -0400 +++ /sw/fink/10.4/local/main/finkinfo/gcc4.info 2006

Re: [Fink-devel] gcc4 4.2 test packaging

2006-10-26 Thread David Fang
Have you consider adding TestDepends, TestScript (or what were those new fields called again?) for maintainer mode regression testing? Probably dejagnu, expect, and make -k check will do. David Fang Computer Systems Laboratory Electrical Computer Engineering Cornell University http

[Fink-devel] gnucash-1.8.12-10

2006-10-18 Thread David Lanznar
crashing on startup on Intel MacBook: Application GuppiPlugiInSpec (process 24814) has crashed due to a fatal error. (Bus error) -- Package manager version: 0.25.1 Distribution version: 0.8.1.rsync i386 Mac OS X version: 10.4.8 Xcode version: 2.2.1 gcc version: 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc.

[Fink-devel] ktoblzcheck 1.11 submitted to tracker

2006-10-17 Thread David Reiser
New upstream version. Additional data file used by aqbanking. Kept the fink legacy splitoff structure. Tracker item 1578674. -- David Reiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web

[Fink-devel] c++filt

2006-10-17 Thread David Reiser
The wiki mentions using c++filt3 to investigate the need for a GCC field in info files. XCode 2.4 is shipped with c++filt version 2.16. Do I need to go looking for another source for the utility? -- David Reiser [EMAIL PROTECTED

[Fink-devel] Your help please - Hosting services thata llow rsync.

2006-10-16 Thread David H.
Hello community. If you know of a hosting service which allows rsync as one of their hosting services, please let me know. Make sure that you include contact data and if you know beforehand, what country/state the service would be hosted in/on. Thank you very much -d

Re: [Fink-devel] a package that might modify data in /sw after installation

2006-10-16 Thread David Reiser
On Oct 16, 2006, at 1:34 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: David Reiser wrote: ktoblzcheck, a library to verify German bank number/account number pairs, comes with the most recent data set available from the German banking system. Recent versions of ktoblzcheck also have a perl script (well

Re: [Fink-devel] a package that might modify data in /sw after installation

2006-10-15 Thread David R. Morrison
On Oct 15, 2006, at 7:02 PM, David Reiser wrote: ktoblzcheck, a library to verify German bank number/account number pairs, comes with the most recent data set available from the German banking system. Recent versions of ktoblzcheck also have a perl script (well, 2 actually, but one calls

Re: [Fink-devel] compatibility version and package name

2006-10-13 Thread David Reiser
On Oct 12, 2006, at 11:53 PM, Daniel Macks wrote: On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 10:46:26PM -0400, David Reiser wrote: If the compatibility version of a library changes, does that mean the package name must change? No. But... e.g., libofx-0.7.0 (from package libofx1) provides libofx.1.0.0.dylib

[Fink-devel] compatibility version and package name

2006-10-12 Thread David Reiser
4.0.0 should the package for the new version be called libofx2? Dave -- David Reiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated

Re: [Fink-devel] name for crypto finance-quote

2006-10-09 Thread David Reiser
On Oct 8, 2006, at 7:14 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: On 10/8/06, David Reiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My submission of finance-quote 1.12 has languished, mostly because it took me quite a while to understand crypto policy and its implications. I've now figured out a way to patch gnucash 2.0

[Fink-devel] name for crypto finance-quote

2006-10-08 Thread David Reiser
-pm? something else? Finance-Quote 1.12 now requires crypt-ssleay in order to connect to an increasing number of https quote servers. -- David Reiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future

Re: [Fink-devel] gnucash build issue

2006-10-06 Thread David Reiser
On Oct 6, 2006, at 1:27 AM, Daniel Macks wrote: On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 01:18:13AM -0400, David Reiser wrote: I'm trying to stomp on a remaining issue in bmaret's experimental gnucash.info. fink install gnucash completes (as long as gwenhywfar is installed - gotta fix that dependency, too

[Fink-devel] Fink MIrror Report (Thank you Jesse)

2006-10-04 Thread David H.
Hello. I just wanted to let you know that I am aware of most of the Problems that you reported Jesse. My main concern is to always ensure the availability of the Master Servers, while the children should be self organised. Much to my demise I have to admit that I have not put much time lately

Re: [Fink-devel] finance-quotehist-pm586 compiling fails

2006-10-03 Thread David Reiser
-- - t/10_quotes.t4 1024 1044 3.85% 101-104 80 subtests skipped. Failed 1/5 test scripts, 80.00% okay. 4/289 subtests failed, 98.62% okay. make: *** [test_dynamic] Error 2 ### execution of make failed, exit code 2 Sébastien -- David Reiser [EMAIL PROTECTED

[Fink-devel] 0.25 release imminent

2006-09-15 Thread David R . Morrison
Christian Schaffner has fixed the main bug which has been holding us back from releasing a new branch of fink (fink 0.25, to be released from current HEAD). Is anyone aware of any other current stoppers? Otherwise, I'd like to release 0.25 soon. -- Dave P.S. chris01 you rock!

Re: [Fink-devel] cdio update

2006-09-05 Thread David R. Morrison
On Sep 5, 2006, at 6:05 PM, Jean-François Mertens wrote: Sorry Justin _ just thought this deserves wider discussion ... So a number of cc's ... JF On 06 Sep 2006, at 00:37, TheSin wrote: oh I forgot about libxine, And dont forget whatever gst-plugins-good-0.10 (or something like

[Fink-devel] system-tetex and system-ghostview (was Re: ghostscript-8.54-1)

2006-09-04 Thread David R. Morrison
On Sep 4, 2006, at 12:26 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: (*)One duty of the new maintainer might be to gently nudge the maintainer of system-ghostscript to update it to 8.54, too ;-) I've been tempted in the past to abolish system-tetex and system- ghostscript from fink, and I'm tempted again at

Re: [Fink-devel] newly orphaned packages

2006-09-03 Thread David R. Morrison
On Aug 31, 2006, at 6:34 AM, Jeff Whitaker wrote: All: I'm giving up the following packages: abiword aspell autocutsel dejagnu epstool extutils-f77 freetype2 freetype219 gcc4 ghostscript ghostscript-fonts gtk+extra17 gv imagemagick imagemagick-nox I'll take imagemagick,

Re: [Fink-devel] newly orphaned packages

2006-09-02 Thread David Fang
Jeff, I would be interested in taking over gcc4 and odcctools. I've been building the c, c++ and fortran languages with a modified gcc4 packaging almost daily in an attempt to prod the Apple FSF maintainers into cleaning up the ppc64 build of gcc. Once gcc trunk branches in the next couple

Re: [Fink-devel] Package test suites

2006-08-28 Thread David Fang
There are also several different standards for even what command runs the tests. I guess 'make check' is the autotools standard, but lots of auto*-using packagers don't know that and have custom-written 'make test'. And the perl world long ago standardized on 'make test' (and we have a

Re: [Fink-devel] Package test suites

2006-08-28 Thread David Fang
David Fang wrote: Don't forget the fact that test-suites can add more dependencies, e.g. gcc requiring dejagnu and expect. A TestDepends/MaintainerDepends field might be useful. Ooh, that's a good point. This is starting to turn into a full-blown Feature. :) TestConflicts, anyone

[Fink-devel] db42-ssl-4.2.52-16

2006-08-25 Thread David Johnson
code 1 Failed: can't install package db42-ssl-4.2.52-16 Also, when I try to install some packages I get the same problem. What's up? And how can I fix it? Thanks, David -- Package manager version: 0.24.25 Distribution version: 0.7.2.rsync powerpc Mac OS X version: 10.3.9 Xcode version: 1.2 gcc

[Fink-devel] curl delta package failing?

2006-08-25 Thread David Fang
(powerpc-apple-darwin8.7.0) libcurl/7.15.5 OpenSSL/0.9.7i zlib/1.2.3 Protocols: tftp ftp telnet dict ldap http file https ftps Features: IPv6 Largefile NTLM SSL libz Thanks in advance. David Fang Computer Systems Laboratory Electrical Computer Engineering Cornell University http

Re: [Fink-devel] (Re-)packaging stuff for fink

2006-08-25 Thread David R. Morrison
On Aug 25, 2006, at 9:23 AM, Alexander K. Hansen wrote: I'm cc'ing Fink-devel on this one to fill in any gaps in my knowledge. On 8/25/06, Robert Stroud [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alexander, Clytie apparently needs gettext-0.15 but fink and darwin ports only have gettext-0.14 for some

Re: [Fink-devel] Package test suites

2006-08-23 Thread David Fang
How many of you have packages which have test suites (make check, for instance) which it would be useful to run as part of the buildfink build? I know gmp has one which I'm often asked to run. If a significant number of packages have these, perhaps it's worth adding a way to specify it in

Re: [Fink-devel] future of gnucash and hbci

2006-08-21 Thread David Reiser
experimental branch yesterday. Axel, David, could you please let me know if hcbi and ofx works as expected, so I can move the package to unstable? Sébastien Works for me, but the first build of gnucash failed because it couldn't find the aqbanking headers. I went back and installed the 3

[Fink-devel] automake-1.9b .info

2006-08-21 Thread David Fang
Hi, I hope this is appropriate for posting. For anyone interested in beta-testing the next release of automake (1.10), attached is a .info for the 1.9b release candidate. When placed in dists/local, it is detected as an older (downgrade) version of automake1.9, when you fink install

Re: [Fink-devel] Policy issue: pkgconfig dependencies (was Re: [Fink-users] Fwd: libpng3-1:1.2.8-1)

2006-08-17 Thread David R. Morrison
wrote: David R. Morrison wrote: *From: *Peter Dyballa [EMAIL PROTECTED] [] When I want to install libpng3 Fink wants to install glib and glib-shlibs too. What have these Common C routines used by Gtk+ and other libs to do with PNG? This comes from two deliberate decisions in Fink: 1

Re: [Fink-devel] future of gnucash and hbci

2006-08-11 Thread David Reiser
stimmig, one of the devs of that packages). Any chance we get them updated somwhen in the near future? greetings and thanks for all the effort you all put into OSS for OS X! lexA -- David Reiser [EMAIL PROTECTED

[Fink-devel] libgnomecanvas, optimization, and Intel Macs

2006-08-08 Thread David Reiser
are the consequences of switching from -O3 to -O1 for optimization? Dave -- David Reiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated

Re: [Fink-devel] Fink and Intel -- how to?

2006-07-29 Thread David R. Morrison
On Jul 29, 2006, at 5:01 PM, Lars Rosengreen wrote: On a sort of related note, another common lisp implementation I maintain now has a 64bit G5 specific version in addition to the original generic powerpc version. What can I do to ensure that only someone with a G5 installs the G5

[Fink-devel] Opendarwin shutting down.

2006-07-25 Thread David R. Morrison
Dear fink developers, As some of you have heard by now, the opendarwin project will be shutting down during the next few months. Fink has relied on opendarwin.org for hosting several pieces of our operation, and we are very grateful to the opendarwin team for having assisted us in many

[Fink-devel] Opendarwin shutting down

2006-07-25 Thread David R. Morrison
Dear fink developers, As some of you have heard by now, the opendarwin project will be shutting down during the next few months. Fink has relied on opendarwin.org for hosting several pieces of our operation, and we are very grateful to the opendarwin team for having assisted us in many

[Fink-devel] Fink Wiki moved

2006-07-22 Thread David R. Morrison
The Fink Developer Wiki has moved to a new location: http:// wiki.finkproject.org . Please make sure that any future changes to the wiki that you make are made at the new location. The last changes which were made at the old site were made on July 22 by Fingolfin (to the page

Re: [Fink-devel] lammpi2

2006-07-22 Thread David R. Morrison
Jack, I've been working on the lammpi issues for the past few days, and there is a workaround which will let us avoid creating a lammpi2 package: namely, creating symlinks in the new lammpi-shlibs which point the old locations of the shared libraries to the new ones. Here, I am assuming

Re: [Fink-devel] lammpi2

2006-07-22 Thread David R. Morrison
On Jul 22, 2006, at 6:49 PM, Jack Howarth wrote: Dave, If I understand the current situation correctly, if you attempt to install openmpi with the old lammpi present, it won't install because of conflicting files. Well, the actual conflict is between some files in the new openmpi- dev

Re: [Fink-devel] fink feature request

2006-07-20 Thread David R. Morrison
On Jul 19, 2006, at 2:27 PM, Jack Howarth wrote: Would it be possible to somehow modify fink to handle the following case. When I created the openmpi package and modified the lammpi to co-exist with it, I ran into a limitation of fink. If a user has already installed the previous

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