[Fink-devel] postinstall.pl symlink

2002-12-12 Thread Ben Hines
I noticed fink/dists is a symlink to the full path of 10.2: ln -s /sw/fink/10.2 /sw/fink/dists Wouldn't it be better to do: ln -s 10.2 /sw/fink/dists Then i wouldn't get confused when copying my fink installs around, when I cd into /swbackup/fink/dists and it goes to the other install's dists

[Fink-devel] Fwd: [Fink-beginners] Gramps installation question (pil broken)

2002-12-12 Thread Ben Hines
I think this is the problem with gramps, pil doesnt actually build: gcc -DNDEBUG -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -I/sw/src/root-pil-1.1.2-13/sw/include/python2.2-I/sw/include/python2.2 -I/usr/X11R6/include -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -isystem /sw/include -IlibImaging -I/sw/include -I/sw/include -IlibImagi

Re: [Fink-devel] Suggestions for a package where source keeps disappearing?

2002-12-12 Thread Carsten Klapp
True Ben, but I meant to point out that it is not possible to combine the primary site (and secondary sites) together with a fink mirror list, within a CustomMirror field like this: Source: mirror:custom:%n_%v.tar.gz CustomMirror: << Primary: http://www.linux.it/~md/software/ mirror: debian:/

Re: [Fink-devel] sablotron

2002-12-12 Thread Alexander Strange
Compile with 'g++' instead of 'gcc', or add -lstdc++ . On Thursday, December 12, 2002, at 09:43 PM, S Woodside wrote: hi there, I hope this list is an OK place to post this request. I'm trying to port sablotron to OS X 10.2. As far as I can tell, it's not been discussed here before. I've got

Re: [Fink-devel] Suggestions for a package where source keeps disappearing?

2002-12-12 Thread Ben Hines
On Thursday, December 12, 2002, at 06:12 PM, Carsten Klapp wrote: It would be nice to be able to just add "mirror:debian:pool/main/w/%n/%n_%v.tar.gz", but fink doesn't support mirror designations within CustomMirror yet. See: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/ index.php?func=detail&aid=638

[Fink-devel] sablotron

2002-12-12 Thread S Woodside
hi there, I hope this list is an OK place to post this request. I'm trying to port sablotron to OS X 10.2. As far as I can tell, it's not been discussed here before. I've got a page up at http://simonwoodside.com/dev/axkit.html#sablot that goes over what I've done so far but I'm stuck on an un

Re: [Fink-devel] Suggestions for a package where source keeps disappearing?

2002-12-12 Thread Ben Hines
On Thursday, December 12, 2002, at 06:12 PM, Carsten Klapp wrote: Here Google reveals that Debian is mirroring whois, http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/w/whois/whois_4.6.0.tar.gz so it could be added as an alternate CustomMirror: Er, no. :) mirror:debian was added not too long ago. -

Re: [Fink-devel] Suggestions for a package where source keeps disappearing?

2002-12-12 Thread Carsten Klapp
Hi Brian, Try a search on Google for the archive filename and another for the md5sum itself to see whether anyone else is mirroring it too. Here Google reveals that Debian is mirroring whois, http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/w/whois/whois_4.6.0.tar.gz so it could be added as an altern

[Fink-devel] Suggestions for a package whose source keeps disappearing?

2002-12-12 Thread Brian Landers
My 'whois' package keeps breaking because the guy who develops it apparently deletes the old versions as soon as he releases a new one. Anyone have a suggestion as to a way to work around this? Is it acceptable to setup a private mirror of the next-to-most-recent version of the source then use a

[Fink-devel] Suggestions for a package where source keeps disappearing?

2002-12-12 Thread Brian Landers
My 'whois' package keeps breaking because the guy who develops it apparently deletes the old versions as soon as he releases a new one. Anyone have a suggestion as to a way to work around this? Is it acceptable to setup a private mirror of the next-to-most-recent version of the source then use a

Re: [Fink-devel] dep. freetype2{,-hinting} missing in some packages

2002-12-12 Thread Alexander Strange
On Thursday, December 12, 2002, at 06:51 PM, thomas kotzian wrote: but there are packages in unstable that can't be installed when i have freetype2-hinting installed. simple example: - install freetype2-hinting and try to install one of the packages from my list (bundle-kde-ssl, imagemagick,.

Re: [Fink-devel] MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET

2002-12-12 Thread Ben Hines
On Thursday, December 12, 2002, at 04:14 PM, David R. Morrison wrote: I will present a third way of looking at it: if you set this flag at 10.2, you change the compiled binaries and hence the debs. Do we want to violate long-standing Fink policy by doing this without changing version/revis

Re: [Fink-devel] MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET

2002-12-12 Thread David R. Morrison
I will present a third way of looking at it: if you set this flag at 10.2, you change the compiled binaries and hence the debs. Do we want to violate long-standing Fink policy by doing this without changing version/revision numbers? -- Dave ---

Re: [Fink-devel] dep. freetype2{,-hinting} missing in some packages

2002-12-12 Thread thomas kotzian
but there are packages in unstable that can't be installed when i have freetype2-hinting installed. simple example: - install freetype2-hinting and try to install one of the packages from my list (bundle-kde-ssl, imagemagick,...) thomas Am Donnerstag, 12.12.02 um 23:57 Uhr schrieb Ben Hines:

Re: [Fink-devel] MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET

2002-12-12 Thread Benjamin Reed
On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 17:37, Ben Hines wrote: > I disagree with this, and think that fink should set it to 10.2 for all > packages. Have you replicated this "theoretical" library breaking > scenario? Show me. I think that's the wrong way to look at it. Have you confirmed that setting it works

Re: [Fink-devel] dep. freetype2{,-hinting} missing in some packages

2002-12-12 Thread Ben Hines
On Thursday, December 12, 2002, at 02:18 PM, thomas kotzian wrote: Is there a problem with freetype2-hinting? none of these packages that depend on freetype2 have a freetype2 | freetype2-hinting in their dependencies. is there a reason for that? Yes it is not needed, because, freetype2-hint

Re: [Fink-devel] Can we move mozilla to the stable branch?

2002-12-12 Thread Ben Hines
On Thursday, December 12, 2002, at 10:32 AM, Jeremy Erwin wrote: which programs require mozilla, and what is the nature of this requirement? Do these programs make use of mozilla specific libraries, or do these programs simply use a html interface, similar to how cups uses localhost:637?

Re: [Fink-devel] MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET

2002-12-12 Thread Ben Hines
On Thursday, December 12, 2002, at 08:23 AM, Benjamin Reed wrote: On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 11:14, David R. Morrison wrote: So, the suggested strategy is that we should add an item to the FAQ which tells users not to worry if they get the "weak dylibs" warning, and we should also implement a "Se

Re: [Fink-devel] December 2002 devtools up

2002-12-12 Thread Benjamin Reed
On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 16:44, Max Horn wrote: > Finally, we should not relay on the December tools before late > January, I'd say, and even then I am not happy about this. In the > very least, packages relaying on that version of the dev tools should > check for them and error out. I don't expec

[Fink-devel] dep. freetype2{,-hinting} missing in some packages

2002-12-12 Thread thomas kotzian
Is there a problem with freetype2-hinting? none of these packages that depend on freetype2 have a freetype2 | freetype2-hinting in their dependencies. is there a reason for that? here the list of packages (i hope it is correct) /sw/fink/10.2/unstable/crypto/finkinfo/evolution-1.0.7-2.info /sw/f

Re: [Fink-devel] December 2002 devtools up

2002-12-12 Thread Max Horn
At 9:05 Uhr -0500 12.12.2002, David R. Morrison wrote: Ben, don't we have to do something about that new environment variable, whatever it is, before we get users to upgrade? (I can't recall and haven't installed the new tools yet myself.) This might require the release of a new version of the p

[Fink-devel] problem installing gzip with latest bootstrap

2002-12-12 Thread Carsten Klapp
Hi, I tried bootstrapping fink today in order to test my patch for PkgVersion.pm: --- fink/perlmod/Fink/PkgVersion.pm-originalThu Dec 12 16:09:31 2002 +++ fink/perlmod/Fink/PkgVersion.pm Thu Dec 12 16:11:07 2002 @@ -1725,4 +1725,7 @@ my %defaults = ( "CPPFLAGS" => "-isystem \%p/inclu

Re: [Fink-devel] Fink Rebuild question

2002-12-12 Thread Chris Zubrzycki
On Thursday, December 12, 2002, at 09:00 AM, Patrick Sodré wrote: Hi, I'm porting openafs to fink and it takes a long time to recompile openafs. Is there ANY way that I can skip the compilation step and go straight to Splitting off the packages? fink info ccache it makes rebuilding very s

Re: [Fink-devel] Can we move mozilla to the stable branch?

2002-12-12 Thread Jeremy Erwin
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

[Fink-devel] Can we move mozilla to the stable branch?

2002-12-12 Thread William Scott
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 port for the last couple of months with no problems. Would it be possib

[Fink-devel] can we upgrade blt to stable?

2002-12-12 Thread William Scott
Hi Matt: I've been making use of blt regularly for the last few months without problems and I believe it is fine. I had to recompile it after upgrading to tcltk version 8.4 (in unstable) but other than that it hasn't caused any problems for me at least, and a lot of people who were apparently

Re: [Fink-devel] MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET

2002-12-12 Thread Benjamin Reed
On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 11:14, David R. Morrison wrote: > So, the suggested strategy is that we should add an item to the FAQ which > tells users not to worry if they get the "weak dylibs" warning, and we > should also implement a "SetMACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET" command in Fink so > that maintainers c

[Fink-devel] MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET

2002-12-12 Thread David R. Morrison
After some discussion on #fink this morning, we arrived at a strategy for handling the MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET environment variable. Seems that this has been present since the July developer tools, and was defaulting to 10.1. In the near future, the compiler will start issuing warnings when this

Re: [Fink-devel] December 2002 devtools up

2002-12-12 Thread David R. Morrison
Ben, don't we have to do something about that new environment variable, whatever it is, before we get users to upgrade? (I can't recall and haven't installed the new tools yet myself.) This might require the release of a new version of the package manager, which sets that environment variable?

[Fink-devel] Fink Rebuild question

2002-12-12 Thread Patrick Sodré
Hi, I'm porting openafs to fink and it takes a long time to recompile openafs. Is there ANY way that I can skip the compilation step and go straight to Splitting off the packages? Thanks, Patrick Sodre --- This sf.net email is sponsored b

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: December 2002 devtools up

2002-12-12 Thread Benjamin Reed
On Thursday, December 12, 2002, at 04:05 AM, Max Horn wrote: Well even if they are released, I think that overdoes it - it is not as if there are serious bugs that force everybody to update. In fact, it doesn't always help to be bleeding edge. Often I would agree, but I'm with Ben Hines on thi

[Fink-devel] Fwd: Re: [Fink-announce] Fink 0.5.0a released [Fink is totallyawesome!]

2002-12-12 Thread Max Horn
Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 12:43:22 +0100 Subject: Re: [Fink-announce] Fink 0.5.0a released [Fink is totally awesome!] Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v548) From: Anders Sjögren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Max Horn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Max, Fink is totally awesome

[Fink-devel] gforth to stable

2002-12-12 Thread Jorge Acereda Maciá
Hi, I have read in newsgroups complaints from people not beeing able to install gforth on 10.2 (it is in unstable). I have been using it for some time and it works fine. Could someone please move it to stable? TIA, Jorge --- This sf.net ema

[Fink-devel] Re: December 2002 devtools up

2002-12-12 Thread Max Horn
At 22:14 Uhr -0800 11.12.2002, Ben Hines wrote: Actually, nevermind.. looks like they may have done it again where they release the final version to only "some people" first, then to everyone a few days later. Anyway, its imminent. -Ben On Wednesday, December 11, 2002, at 10:08 PM, Ben Hines

Re: [Fink-devel] Release Annoucements for websites..

2002-12-12 Thread Max Horn
A few more notes by me: fink should be Fink here: fink is the package manager, Fink the whole distro. Also, kde3 -> KDE3. I present a slightly shorter alternate headline, tell me which one you like more... I agree that we should not try overly much to advertise for OS X, that is a maybe good id