Is it possible to have multiple installations of X on the same
machine? I'm trying to port a series of libraries and programs
(nomachine's nx stuff) that, among other nasty things, patches Xlib.
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1.03 is obsolete and the sources cannot be obtained from cpan. 1.06-1
(in unstable) is the most up to date version. I have not received any
reports of problems associated with this package.
Jeremy
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I'm having a go at porting starlink to macos-- a set of astronomy
applications and libraries. The documentation for these libraries
consists of latex hypertext-- so if a user has decided to install
library A and library B, the documentation of library B has hypertext
links to library A's docume
On May 1, 2004, at 3:09 PM, AIDA Shinra wrote:
I submitted a new package "ca-roots" at the Tracker before. The
problem is what license is appropreate.
The CA certificates came from mod_ssl distribution, which is Apache
licensed. But modssl.org originally got them from Netscape
Communicator/Navigat
;InfoDocs"
"DaemonicFile" "DaemonicName" "Homepage" "DescDetail" "DescUsage"
"DescPackaging" "DescPort"
)
"List of Fink Field Names")
(defconst fink-keywords-regexp
(concat "\\<\\("
On Jan 23, 2004, at 3:47 PM, David R. Morrison wrote:
Here's a simple method.
1) Unpack the source tarball, which will give a directory like
foo-1.2.3/
2) Do all necessary editing of source files within foo-1.2.3/
3) Rename foo-1.2.3/ to foo-1.2.3-patched/
4) Unpack a second copy of the source t
On Jan 5, 2004, at 4:28 PM, Daniel Macks wrote:
Wouldn't the fink package naming scheme (i.e., use of Revision) take
care of that? I can't remember seeing a fink package handled as %n-%v
(interacting with outside tarballs maybe, but not within the fink
world's package manager code nor info files).
On Jan 5, 2004, at 3:23 PM, Daniel Macks wrote:
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 10:23:15AM +, William Dell Wisner wrote:
I have a package (lft) that uses its own unique open source license
("MainNerve Public License for Open Source":
http://www.mainnerve.com/os/mpl.html). While this license reads as a
On Sunday, March 16, 2003, at 05:29 PM, Adam Skwersky wrote:
I'm doing some development of an existing package.
I'd like to modify the source in place and then have fink "re-build and
install" without re-extracting the source. How do I do that?
cd ~
zcat /sw/src/vice-1.10.tar.gz | tar xvf -
c
On Sunday, February 9, 2003, at 09:54 PM, Jeremy Erwin wrote:
On Sunday, February 9, 2003, at 12:59 PM, Renaud Blanch wrote:
I'm porting a c++ library using gc to Jaguar.
I use fink's port of the lib (gc-6.1-3 avaible in the unstable
branch) and
it works great except for one t
On Sunday, February 9, 2003, at 12:59 PM, Renaud Blanch wrote:
I'm porting a c++ library using gc to Jaguar.
I use fink's port of the lib (gc-6.1-3 avaible in the unstable branch)
and
it works great except for one thing :
The lib is not compiled with pthread support, which I need.
The trouble
On Wednesday, February 5, 2003, at 03:29 PM, John Clements wrote:
This is off-topic, but I'm hoping that someone can point out what an
idiot I am.
Problem: I can't get gcc to recognize either the CPATH or
C_INCLUDE_PATH environment variables. Here's what I mean:
It's customarily CFLAGS, bu
On Tuesday, February 4, 2003, at 07:12 PM, Max Horn wrote:
At 18:43 Uhr -0500 04.02.2003, Jeremy Erwin wrote:
I am porting a number of libraries that have extensive example code.
I have been
putting
DocFiles: examples/hello/* examples/testgrid/*
and the like in my info files, but flattening
I am porting a number of libraries that have extensive example code. I
have been
putting
DocFiles: examples/hello/* examples/testgrid/*
and the like in my info files, but flattening the directory structure
might not be such a great idea. Is there any reason why this behavior
is the default, and
On Saturday, February 1, 2003, at 10:48 PM, Ashley Yakeley wrote:
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Martin Costabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
2. After the dpkg is built, fink should check it to make sure that
all
the files are within %p (or within other directories somehow
explicitly
me
On Wednesday, January 29, 2003, at 06:11 PM, Max Horn wrote:
With regards to this disscussion:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200301/
msg01676.html
-> it seems we have to change the "License" field of mplayer to
"restrictive" as we are not allowed to distributed b
On Monday, January 27, 2003, at 10:09 PM, Ben Hines wrote:
On Monday, January 27, 2003, at 06:41 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
my $newlibrary;
my @liblist;
my $libdir = "/usr/X11R6/lib";
then you'll have to say that. No simple addition of parens will help
you. What you're say
It would be fine, if it worked-- all I get are
Parentheses missing around "my" list at ./fixlib line 4.
Useless use of a variable in void context at ./fixlib line 4.
you must be root to run this![jeremy@callisto:~]$ sudo ./fixlib
Parentheses missing around "my" list at ./fixlib line 4.
Useless use
I'm trying to build HDF-EOS via fink. However it has a very strange
build process.
To begin with: the tarball actually contains three different tar files,
only one of which is germane: HDF-EOS5.1.2.tar (which unpacks,
naturally, as "hdfeos5")
Anyway, I can abuse the PatchScript, like so:
PatchS
On Friday, January 24, 2003, at 01:08 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
The rest of the suggestions in this thread are welcome, but I still
think we need to consider that fink is likely to be used by
power-compilers like me as well as naive compilers that simply want
access to cool Unix binaries f
On Friday, January 24, 2003, at 01:32 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
It is to *those* people whom I address the question - how can
fink play nicely with a self-installed Perl installation? Something
"system-MUMBLE"-ish should work, but will require the support
of the fink developers.
As of
On Monday, January 20, 2003, at 07:45 AM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
However, the packages that depend on those fink Perl packages insist
on installing them, and they break if they include anything that might
end up in /sw/lib/perl5/darwin, since those binaries are not
compatible with my /usr/loc
Just for the record, config.log gives a lot more information than the
screen output. It would be so much more useful if persons posted the
relevant portions of that file rather than excerpts from screen output.
Jeremy
On Saturday, January 11, 2003, at 04:31 PM, David R. Morrison wrote:
You p
On Friday, January 10, 2003, at 11:45 AM, Benjamin Reed wrote:
On Friday, January 10, 2003, at 11:38 AM, David wrote:
I did offer that as well. I am also still talking to the fink.info
owner and they do not seem too reluctant on sponsoring the domain.
Neither money nor resources seem to be th
On Wednesday, January 8, 2003, at 03:30 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
"Jeremy" == Jeremy Erwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Jeremy> On Wednesday, January 8, 2003, at 02:04 PM, Randal L.
Schwartz wrote:
Here's my first post:
OK, as the first order of the day, how
On Wednesday, January 8, 2003, at 02:04 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
Here's my first post:
OK, as the first order of the day, how do I get my "delete" key
to really be a delete key? It worked fine under Xdarwin and
the version built by fink.
I think the solution is some s
On Thursday, December 12, 2002, at 12:52 PM, William Scott wrote:
Dear Masanori Sekino:
Thank you for maintaining mozilla for fink. I use some X-windows
programs that require this as an interface, so it has made it possible
to use these on OS X. I've been using the "unstable" OS 10.2.x por
m actually quoted in the old post, I
have little interest in rehashing a potential flamewar).
From: Jim Magee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu May 16, 2002 1:16:51 PM US/Eastern
To: Jeremy Erwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: parallel make
On Thursday, May 16,
Many packages, such as expat, will not build correctly if an older
version is present on the system, due to improper expansion of CPPFlags
i.e -I/sw/include -I../include will reference the old version of a
header preferentially.
Given that it is not always possible to ignore CPPFlags, perhaps i
On Friday, November 29, 2002, at 05:13 PM, Xavier HUMBERT wrote:
And signing the info file is just an extra step, which can be easyly
automated. A detached signature, would add the extra bonus that info
file is not modified, thus no need to modify trhe parsing code. If
there
is a "blah-0.9-1.in
On Monday, November 25, 2002, at 08:36 PM, Ben Hines wrote:
Anyone is welcome to check out submitted packages on the submission
tracker, even if you cant commit it, you can check the packages for
obvious things like shared library dependencies, "fink validate"
errors on .deb file or info fil
On Thursday, November 21, 2002, at 06:57 PM, Jeremy Erwin wrote:
Or, can someone just update the info file so that it doesn't need an
old version of tidy?
http://tidy.sourceforge.net/src/old/tidy_src_020106.tgz
Jeremy
thats http://tidy.sourceforge.net/src/old/tidy_src_021006.tgz
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From: Jeremy Erwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu Nov 21, 2002 6:53:04 PM US/Eastern
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Randal L. Schwartz)
Subject: Re: [Fink-devel] treasure hunt - looking for
tidy_src_021006.tgz
On Thursday, November 21, 2002, at 06:10 PM, Ra
In some packages patchscripts such as the following are used to coerce
packages to install correctly:
sed 's:@PREFIX@:%p:g' <%a/%f.patch | patch -p1
Assuming I've read that correctly, sed substitutes the current
definition of %p for @PREFIX@ in the patchfile , before feeding the
results to pat
In some packages patchscripts such as the following are used to coerce
packages to install correctly:
sed 's:@PREFIX@:%p:g' <%a/%f.patch | patch -p1
Assuming I've read that correctly, sed substitutes the current
definition of %p for @PREFIX@ in the patchfile , before feeding the
results to pat
As part of the build process, bochs installs a critical font-- vga-pcf.
in the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts directory. If such a font cannot be
found, the simulation cannot run-- and the user is forced to rebuild,
not merely reinstall. Perhaps a postinstall script could reinstall the
font?
Jeremy
While trying to install the BioPerl distribution, I had some trouble
compiling the xml-twig-pm mod. The test regimen indicates that the
XML::Parser module was improperly installed. XML::Parser
(xml-parser-pm) passes its own self tests, though, as does expat.
I am concerned that the expat libra
On Thursday, October 17, 2002, at 09:14 AM, Carsten Klapp wrote:
Trivial you say... muhahahhaa :) :) !
This would be my first C / Cocoa project. (My other project, upclient
5 was already written, I just tweaked it a little.)
I hadn't considered an NSOutline view, that might be good approach
I was trying to install bioperl-pm-1.0.2-3-- one of those packages
which seems to
require every package under the sun.
The *.info file has a Suggests line, but it does not mention
file-temp-pm, xml-writer-pm, xml-twig-pm or stringy-pm, all of which
seem to be desired by bioperl. So I added them
I was trying to install bioperl-pm-1.0.2-3-- one of those packages
which seems to
require every package under the sun.
The *.info file has a Suggests line, but it does not mention
file-temp-pm, xml-writer-pm, xml-twig-pm or stringy-pm, all of which
seem to be desired by bioperl. So I added them
Does fink define a mirrors list for mysql? How does one define a custom
mirrors list?
Jeremy
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On Wednesday, October 9, 2002, at 05:22 AM, ewitness - Ben Fowler
wrote:
> Incidentally, I seem to have already installed ghostscript, probably
> along with the gimp; and I have 'AFPL PRE-RELEASE Ghostscript 7.02',
> but I don't seem to have any command line tools that will conver a PDF
> file
On Tuesday, October 8, 2002, at 05:53 PM, ewitness - Ben Fowler wrote:
> What is the recommended FAX software for Mac OS X?
>
> I have short term but significant need for an e-mail
> to FAX gateway, and installing something appropriate
> on Mac OS X would be the easiest way of doing it.
>
You m
Many fink packages appear to be compiled with "-O2 -g". While this may
be appropriate for debugging, the "-g" flag can increase the size of
binaries. A more aggressive level of optimization would also be useful
in some applications. Is there some mechanism by which a user could
tell fink t
On Saturday, September 28, 2002, at 01:00 PM, Nicholas Robbins wrote:
> I've installed fink from scratch on a 10.2 system and got
> xfree86 working no problem, but rxvt doesnt work, i've tried
> removing it and reinstalling it, but no luck. Log follows
> below. I find only one file with the nam
According to an article on macslash.org, the version of gcc3 that's
tagged gcc-1151 will be released with Jaguar. So if you want to have a
good idea as to whether your code will compile with jaguar: here's a
short guide to installing the cvs version of gcc3.
(I'm compiling the code now. Amend
stallation, and packaging.
It also allows the user to easily create cross-compiled binaries.
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On Saturday, June 22, 2002, at 12:23 PM, Max Horn wrote:
> Plus considering that for most Unix work and for a majority of Fink
> packages, you have to be able to speak english anyway. Note that I
> don't want to imply with this that I think localization is useless, far
> to the contrary I st
I notice that arb requires openmotif3. Is it compatible with lesstif?
Jeremy Erwin
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I'm working on packaging an old widget library for X11 called Xw. It
used to be distributed with X11R3 and X11R4, but I've found a linux port
to X11R6.
However, this library is unversioned. Fink expects a version number,
though. Should I treat it as "Version:1" ?
Jeremy
On Wednesday, June 12, 2002, at 10:44 PM, Anthony DeRobertis wrote:
> Wonder no more! Use the source --- http://cvs.debian.org/?cvsroot=dpkg
> or apt-get source dpkg (not sure if that works with Fink...)
>
Isn't it in %p/src?
If, for some odd reason, it's not, "fink fetch dpkg" does nicely.
Pe
I currently use a modem, on a periodically unreliable telephone line--
yet some packages are very large, and the transfer closes before the
download is complete. I believe that both curl and wget support
continuation of partial downloads. Would it be possible to support this
feature-- perhaps
On Friday, May 31, 2002, at 10:15 PM, Ben Hines wrote:
> At 7:58 PM -0400 5/31/02, Jeremy Erwin wrote:
>>
>> Is there a way to get fink to properly expand $(CC) ? i.e
>> SetCPP: $(CC) -E -traditional-cpp
>> does not seem to work; it's flagged as "not sane&q
I'm slowly making progress on dx-2.4.0-- sorry to get everyone's hopes
up be prematurely submitting a compiled package...
I installed autoconf-2.5, and automake 1.5 to test for compatibility--
most bug reports concerned this.
The quick fix seems to be
SetCPP: cc -E -traditional-cpp
although th
On Tuesday, May 28, 2002, at 07:24 PM, Martin Costabel wrote:
> Martin Costabel wrote:
>>
>> Jeremy Erwin wrote:
>> []
>>> I'm using fink supplied versions of automake-1.5, autoconf-2.13.
>>
>> Yes, I just tried this combination, too, and it compi
On Tuesday, May 28, 2002, at 03:52 PM, Martin Costabel wrote:
> Jeremy Erwin wrote:
>>
>> I am in the process of testing a fink port of open dx (version 4.2.0)
>> My
>> port uses automake, so as to keep the patch smaller and easier to
>> debug.
>> Wh
I've just uploaded a package description for dx-4.2.0 (a scientific
visualization tool).
Unfortunately, it likes to install in %p/dx (rather that %p/bin %p/lib
%p/etc etc.) It has been brought to my attention that this might cause
problems. However, some of the %/p/dx subdirectories do not cor
I am in the process of testing a fink port of open dx (version 4.2.0) My
port uses automake, so as to keep the patch smaller and easier to debug.
What packages will insure that a would be compiler can run aclocal,
automake, autoconf and autoheader?
Jeremy
On Tuesday, May 21, 2002, at 05:28 PM, AdvertisingDept wrote:
> Thanks Ben for all the clues!!!
>
> Here's another obvious question:
> #man make
> replies there is no entry
> so does
> #man configure
>
[localhost:~] jeremy% ls -l `which make`
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 7 Apr 30 13:38 /usr/
On Thursday, May 16, 2002, at 05:47 AM, Max Horn wrote:
> And don't forget that only people who actually have dual-processor
> systems can test these modified build scripts. Thus, I won't add such
> code to my packages (those that use GNU make anyway, which are not
> all), because I would h
On Wednesday, May 15, 2002, at 11:50 PM, Ben Hines wrote:
> As a test I added:
> -j `hostinfo | grep processors | tail -n1 | sed -e
> 's/^.*,[[:space:]]\([[:digit:]]*\)[[:space:]]processors.*$/\1/'`
>
> just after the "make" command in the "glib2" package and "gnome-core"
> package (i had to
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