Re: [Fink-devel] [Fink-users] jpilot fork error messages

2008-12-10 Thread Martin Costabel
The problem with THE_PROCESS_HAS_FORKED_AND_YOU_CANNOT_USE_THIS_COREFOUNDATION_FUNCTIONALITY___YOU_MUST_EXEC__() happened also to asymptote recently when it started using OpenGL/GLUT(in asymptote-1.50) . After some fruitless experimentation rearranging the fork() stuff, the upstream author set

Re: [Fink-devel] [Fink-users] jpilot fork error messages

2008-12-10 Thread Alexander Hansen
On Dec 10, 2008, at 3:56 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: > The problem with > THE_PROCESS_HAS_FORKED_AND_YOU_CANNOT_USE_THIS_COREFOUNDATION_FUNCTIONALITY___YOU_MUST_EXEC__ > > () happened also to asymptote recently when it started using OpenGL/ > GLUT(in asymptote-1.50) . After some fruitless exp

[Fink-devel] lzma support

2008-12-10 Thread John Ridgway
Friends - I am thinking about tackling (once more) the idea of adding TeXLive to Fink (unless someone is already working on it -- I haven't been reading the posts recently); but there is a problem standing in my way. TeXLive is distributed as a .tar.lzma file, and needs lzma to unpack it.

Re: [Fink-devel] lzma support

2008-12-10 Thread David R. Morrison
A source file which has an unrecognized suffix is simply copied into the build directory by Fink, and not unpacked. Thus, a PatchScript of the form unlzma foo.lzma | tar xf - should work to unpack the source. (Of course, I don't know the actual name of the binary for un-lzma- ing, or its

Re: [Fink-devel] lzma support

2008-12-10 Thread Martin Costabel
John Ridgway wrote: > Friends - > I am thinking about tackling (once more) the idea of adding TeXLive to > Fink (unless someone is already working on it -- I haven't been > reading the posts recently); I am following the mailing lists quite closely, and I haven't seen anyone declaring a firm