Re: [Fink-devel] OT (sort of): Help with a binary requiring a library

2003-01-13 Thread Jared
On Monday, January 13, 2003, at 01:49 PM, Jared wrote: On Monday, January 13, 2003, at 08:12 AM, David R. Morrison wrote: This is why I suggested you would need to compile with a different Fink prefix. How can I compile just these few apps using a different Fink prefix? Is there a setting

Re: [Fink-devel] domain, need reply from key team at very least

2003-01-13 Thread Jared
How about finkx.org? Everyone can agree the X is important and is cross culture (unlike hq which didn't go over so well). It's open across the board, as well. On Monday, January 13, 2003, at 03:46 PM, Jim White wrote: Justin Hallett wrote: I personally don't like it, ppl won't remember it, an

Re: [Fink-devel] OT (sort of): Help with a binary requiring a library

2003-01-13 Thread Jared
). Thanks. -Jared --- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: FREE SSL Guide from Thawte are you planning your Web Server Security? Click here to get a FREE Thawte SSL guide and find the answers to all your SSL security issues. http

Re: [Fink-devel] OT (sort of): Help with a binary requiring a library

2003-01-13 Thread Jared
On Monday, January 13, 2003, at 09:27 AM, Michel Alexandre Salim wrote: On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 14:30, Jared wrote: [snip] I tried something like that before, where I made my root "/" and then made myself a tree with usr/sbin/hotwayd and etc/xinetd.d/hotwayd as files to be installed

Re: [Fink-devel] OT (sort of): Help with a binary requiring a library

2003-01-13 Thread Jared
en root and admin wasn't clear at the time). Do you think if I had given it root privileges that it would have installed *in* /etc and *in* /usr or would it have gone overboard and trashed /usr as well? -Jared --- This SF.NET email is

Re: [Fink-devel] OT (sort of): Help with a binary requiring a library

2003-01-13 Thread Jared
your own (let's say /opt/jared), and run the Fink bootstrap with the choice of /opt/jared as installation prefix. Then you can compile the Fink packages you need, bundle everything up into a .pkg, and distribute them to your heart's content. This seems reasonable. However, if I am go

Re: [Fink-devel] OT (sort of): Help with a binary requiring a library

2003-01-13 Thread Jared
On Monday, January 13, 2003, at 04:29 AM, Jared wrote: I want to know if it's possible for me to also install libxml2 along with this program After some testing, I think I answered my own question, but I'd still like input. I manually copied files from /sw/lib and /sw/include in

[Fink-devel] OT (sort of): Help with a binary requiring a library

2003-01-13 Thread Jared
about the command line. I think many people will like it but few will want to install fink just for it. Thanks for your input. Specifically, I would love if Max Horn would give input, as he's the maintainer of libxml2. Thanks all. Sorry for the fairly OT message. -Jared -

[Fink-devel] Becoming stable and including a binary distribution?

2003-01-12 Thread Jared
Second question. What do I do if I want to include a binary distribution? I don't recall seeing those instructions in the documentation. The program I am including only has a single binary file so it's small and easy to add. I just don't k

Re: [Fink-devel] .apps in fink

2003-01-12 Thread Jared
On Sunday, January 12, 2003, at 10:29 AM, Bill Bumgarner wrote: On Sunday, Jan 12, 2003, at 11:22 US/Eastern, Ben Hines wrote: On Sunday, January 12, 2003, at 08:03 AM, Jared wrote: Using aliases is not Mac-like. Giving users the illusion of moving their apps isn't good enough. Beside

Re: [Fink-devel] .apps in fink

2003-01-12 Thread Jared
Apple uses for this very purpose?) Otherwise, just stick to what you're already doing. Let .apps be distributed separately via .dmgs. -Jared On Sunday, January 12, 2003, at 09:46 AM, Ben Hines wrote: On Sunday, January 12, 2003, at 07:38 AM, Ben Hines wrote: Ok, i just had another

Re: [Fink-devel] Can I modify outside /sw?

2003-01-10 Thread Jared
etd/xinetd method so I'm at a loss. Of course, your statement could be completely unrelated and I'm just confusing myself. -Jared On Friday, January 10, 2003, at 02:31 PM, Ben Hines wrote: On Friday, January 10, 2003, at 06:59 AM, David R. Morrison wrote: On my machine, inetd is

Re: [Fink-devel] Can I modify outside /sw?

2003-01-10 Thread Jared
On Friday, January 10, 2003, at 08:59 AM, David R. Morrison wrote: Jared <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi. I have a package which currently creates a file outside /sw. It adds a file to /etc/xinetd.d/ so your computer acts as a POP3 server so you can get Hotmail in any e-mail clien

[Fink-devel] Can I modify outside /sw?

2003-01-10 Thread Jared
hile processing: /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/x11-system/system- xfree86_4.2-1_darwin-powerpc.deb ### execution of dpkg failed, exit code 1 Failed: can't install package system-xfree86-4.2-1 This ha

[Fink-devel] Will someone look at my package?

2003-01-07 Thread Jared
o know if there are any right-off-the-bat errors I've made. It's pretty straightforward, I think. I don't want to flood everyone on the list with copies of my files, so here is the download link: http://www.silter.org/jared/ho