[Fink-devel] gcc45-10.4.info fix

2010-06-07 Thread Jack Howarth
Could someone check in the following change to gcc45-10.4.info in unstable? Index: gcc45-10.4.info === RCS file: /cvsroot/fink/dists/10.4/unstable/main/finkinfo/languages/gcc45-10.4.info,v retrieving revision 1.2 diff -r1.2 gcc45-1

[Fink-devel] scientificpython-py vs obsolete scipy-core-py

2010-06-24 Thread Jack Howarth
Kurt, I noticed while updating relax-py for fink unstable that scientificpython-py currently depends on the obsolete scipy-core-py package. Could you update the scientificpython-py package to depend on numpy-py instead? Thanks in advance as this will allow -m builds. Jack ---

[Fink-devel] python variant convention

2010-06-25 Thread Jack Howarth
I noticed a lot of packages in unstable still contain lines like... Distribution: (%type_pkg[python] = 23) 10.4, (%type_pkg[python] = 24) 10.4, (%type_pkg[python] = 24) 10.5 and support python variants other than 2.5 and 2.6. Hasn't the convention in fink unstable been changed such that only

Re: [Fink-devel] python variant convention

2010-06-26 Thread Jack Howarth
Dave, Perhaps I was confused by the proposed changes for the fink 10.5 release... http://wiki.finkproject.org/index.php/Fink:Packaging:Preparing_for_10.5 My reading of that was that py23 variants should be depreciated. Jack On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 09:33:39AM -0600, David R. Morrison w

[Fink-devel] gcc4x/cloog/ppl

2010-08-06 Thread Jack Howarth
I would be interested in the general consensus on the following. A new recommended update to ppl, version 0.11, was released this week. Currently cloog won't build against this due to a version check which will soon be adjusted to allow this. However, allowing cloog to build with the same soversi

Re: [Fink-devel] gcc4x/cloog/ppl

2010-08-06 Thread Jack Howarth
On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 05:35:55PM +0200, Jean-François Mertens wrote: > > On 06 Aug 2010, at 17:32, Jean-François Mertens wrote: > >> As long a cloog's own install_name doesn't change, I see in principle >> no problem in >> creating a new ppl pkg for the new version (since there the install >>

Re: [Fink-devel] gcc4x/cloog/ppl

2010-08-06 Thread Jack Howarth
On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 05:35:55PM +0200, Jean-François Mertens wrote: > > On 06 Aug 2010, at 17:32, Jean-François Mertens wrote: > >> As long a cloog's own install_name doesn't change, I see in principle >> no problem in >> creating a new ppl pkg for the new version (since there the install >>

Re: [Fink-devel] gcc4x/cloog/ppl

2010-08-08 Thread Jack Howarth
On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 07:44:05PM +0200, Jean-François Mertens wrote: > > > I can see no runtime problems, since thnigs are linked by install_name; > even in the same binary, you could conceivably have 2 different symbols > coming resp. from libfoo1.dylib and libfoo2.dylib. > But here gcc would ju

[Fink-devel] gcc 4.5.1 released

2010-08-08 Thread Jack Howarth
Upstream has announced the official release of the gcc 4.5.1 tarballs. If anyone is interested enough to do the commits, the updated info and patch files have been sitting on fink tracking for a week now... http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3037605&group_id=17203&atid=414256 This

Re: [Fink-devel] gcc 4.5.1 released

2010-08-10 Thread Jack Howarth
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 09:18:39AM -0400, Alexander Hansen wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 8/8/10 6:53 PM, Jack Howarth wrote: > >Upstream has announced the official release of the > > gcc 4.5.1 tarballs. If anyone is interested enou

Re: [Fink-devel] gcc 4.5.1 released

2010-08-10 Thread Jack Howarth
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 09:51:30AM -0400, Alexander Hansen wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > > I posted the build log and build directory at > > > > http://akhmac.blogdns.net/~hansen/finklogs/gcc-4.5.1-1000/ > > > >> This machine appears to be inaccessible. > > > >

Re: [Fink-devel] gcc 4.5.1 released

2010-08-10 Thread Jack Howarth
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 07:42:05PM -0400, Alexander Hansen wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 8/10/10 12:08 PM, Jack Howarth wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 09:51:30AM -0400, Alexander Hansen wrote: > > > >>>> I post

Re: [Fink-devel] gcc 4.5.1 released

2010-08-11 Thread Jack Howarth
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 07:48:45PM -0400, Alexander Hansen wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 8/11/10 4:56 PM, Jack Fink wrote: > > Salut Jack, > > the problem on 10.4-i386 (with 2 dwarves) is that the build tries to build > > something as x86_64, which can't succeed

Re: [Fink-devel] gcc4x/cloog/ppl

2010-08-13 Thread Jack Howarth
FYI, it is now clear what will happen upstream. The existing cloog-ppl package will NOT be modified to build against the new ppl-0.11 release. Instead it will be depreciated in favor of the upcoming cloog.org release of cloog 0.15. The cloog.org release of cloog can be built against a bundled is

Re: [Fink-devel] gcc 4.5.1 released

2010-08-13 Thread Jack Howarth
gestion on this thread. Fink's support for > >> 10.4 will end fairly soon, so it would not be such a bad thing if gcc > >> 4.5.1 only runs on 10.5 and 10.6. > >> > >> -- Dave > >> > >> > >> On Aug 11, 2010, at 5:36 PM, Jac

Re: [Fink-devel] multiarch libraries in gcc44/45 on i386

2010-08-25 Thread Jack Howarth
Alexander, Apple has always built libgcc in that manner. It is the one exception in the multilib build where a separate subdirectory isn't used. The new versioned libgcc_ext stubs (which provide all the additional symbols from FSF libgcc which aren't in libgcc_s.10.4/10.5) is built the same way

Re: [Fink-devel] llvm 10.4/ppc build fail

2010-09-03 Thread Jack Howarth
David, Did you try the packaging on fink tracking? https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1859491&group_id=17203&atid=414256 https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2993939&group_id=17203&atid=414256 https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=

Re: [Fink-devel] gcc 4.5.1 released

2010-09-03 Thread Jack Howarth
On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 07:19:56PM -0400, Alexander Hansen wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > OK. I've been fighting with my own C++ code issues of late so I dropped > out of the discussion. > > Shall we go ahead and release this version into the wild? > > On 8/14/10 6

Re: [Fink-devel] gcc 4.5.1 released

2010-09-03 Thread Jack Howarth
On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 07:19:56PM -0400, Alexander Hansen wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > OK. I've been fighting with my own C++ code issues of late so I dropped > out of the discussion. > Alexander, Actually, on reflection, let me backport one additional patch

[Fink-devel] ppl-0.11-1, cloog-ppl and gcc

2010-11-09 Thread Jack Howarth
Folks installing the new ppl 0.11.1 packaging should be aware that it *could* cause breakage in pre-existing copies of gcc4x built against ppl 0.10.2. The ppl 0.10.2 to 0.11.x transition represents an ABI change with soversion bump. The potential problem stems from the fact that the graphite b

[Fink-devel] gcc45-4.5.2-1000

2010-12-28 Thread Jack Howarth
I have placed updated gcc45-4.5.2-1000 packaging on fink tracking in case anyone is interested in pushing it into fink unstable. https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3138732&group_id=17203&atid=414256 The packaging doesn't include a 10.4 variant due to the unresolved build issues u

Re: [Fink-devel] gcc45-4.5.2-1000

2011-01-17 Thread Jack Howarth
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 09:38:23PM -0500, David Fang wrote: > Jack, > Do you have a reference to what these 10.4 build issues are (thread or > bugzilla)? > Also, with your permission, can I enable cloog for 10.4? The only > reason that I can see that it was restricted was because pp

Re: [Fink-devel] gmp5-64bit-5.0.1-5 build failure

2011-01-18 Thread Jack Howarth
Fang, You have to be extra careful with gmp because upstream doesn't use the standard config.guess (which would make configuration much more bullet proof). Jack -- Protect Your Site and Customers from Malwar

Re: [Fink-devel] ppl-0.10.2-4 fails tests on 10.5/i386

2011-03-23 Thread Jack Howarth
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 10:28:04AM -0400, David Fang wrote: >> It was originally thought that the failure was due to 10.5 using >> gcc-4.0, but the test still fails the same way with revision -4 which >> forces gcc-4.2. >> >> For the record, ppl9-0.11.2-1 does pass tests OK. Would it make sense

Re: [Fink-devel] ppl-0.10.2-4 fails tests on 10.5/i386

2011-03-23 Thread Jack Howarth
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 12:36:44PM -0400, David Fang wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 10:28:04AM -0400, David Fang wrote: It was originally thought that the failure was due to 10.5 using gcc-4.0, but the test still fails the same way with revision -4 which forces gcc-4.2.

Re: [Fink-devel] ppl-0.10.2-4 fails tests on 10.5/i386

2011-03-28 Thread Jack Howarth
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 09:03:10PM -0400, David Fang wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 12:36:44PM -0400, David Fang wrote: On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 10:28:04AM -0400, David Fang wrote: >> It was originally thought that the failure was due to 10.5 using >> gcc-4.0, but the test still fail

[Fink-devel] testing llvm-gcc

2011-03-30 Thread Jack Howarth
It would be wise at this point to begin testing llvm-gcc on darwin10 as the replacement compiler for fink. I've already discovered that llvm-gcc in Xcode 4.0.1 (and all llvm.org releases) miscompiles cc1 in recent FSF gcc... http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=9571 The importance of testing th

Re: [Fink-devel] testing llvm-gcc

2011-03-31 Thread Jack Howarth
FYI, the code generation bug in llvm-gcc which breaks the FSF gcc has been resolved... http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=9571#c17 It is unclear if we can get this into llvm-gcc-4.2 2.9 (which is the last llvm.org release). I've also found a linker bug in Xcode 4.0.1 when building gmp5 with

[Fink-devel] updated llvm-clang/llvm-gcc42 packaging and new dragonegg-gcc packaging

2011-04-08 Thread Jack Howarth
I've uploaded a new llvm-clang package to replace the existing llvm package and an updated llvm-gcc42 package. The llvm/llvm-gcc42 packages haven't been updated before because of a leaky buildroot in llvm which I fixed upstream in llvm 2.9... http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvm-commits/Week-

Re: [Fink-devel] updated llvm-clang/llvm-gcc42 packaging and new dragonegg-gcc packaging

2011-04-09 Thread Jack Howarth
On Sat, Apr 09, 2011 at 09:15:32AM -0400, Benjamin Reed wrote: > On 4/8/11 9:51 PM, Jack Howarth wrote: >>I've uploaded a new llvm-clang package to replace the existing llvm >> package and an updated llvm-gcc42 package. > > I don't see how this could work; old l

[Fink-devel] using svn to pull source

2011-04-12 Thread Jack Howarth
Do we have any approved examples of packages which pull their sources dynamically from an svn repository? The newest dragonegg svn is quite good against the release llvm 2.9 (building all of xplor-nih with the three compilers, gcc, g++ and gfortran, all using the dragonegg plugin). However the re

Re: [Fink-devel] using svn to pull source

2011-04-13 Thread Jack Howarth
Hanspeter, The dragonegg-gcc.info posted at http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3281454&group_id=17203&atid=414256 works well enough so far. I used... Source: none with the svn download in the PatchScript... PatchScript: << #!/bin/bash -ev svn co -r129359 http://llvm.org/svn/llvm

Re: [Fink-devel] using svn to pull source

2011-04-13 Thread Jack Howarth
h for quite some time now with their svn.url/svn.revision fields. I used that approach in the MacPorts pymol package I maintain. Jack ps The posted packaging doesn't trigger any warnings with -m so I assumed it was acceptable to code that way. > > > On

Re: [Fink-devel] using svn to pull source

2011-04-13 Thread Jack Howarth
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 01:44:29PM -0500, Peter O'Gorman wrote: > On 04/13/2011 01:23 PM, Jack Howarth wrote: >> svn co -r129359http://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/dragonegg/trunk/ > > Jack, > > I have done: > > $ svn export -r129359 http://llvm.org/svn/llvm-projec

Re: [Fink-devel] using svn to pull source

2011-04-14 Thread Jack Howarth
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 01:44:29PM -0500, Peter O'Gorman wrote: > On 04/13/2011 01:23 PM, Jack Howarth wrote: >> svn co -r129359http://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/dragonegg/trunk/ > > Jack, > > I have done: > > $ svn export -r129359 http://llvm.org/svn/llvm-projec

[Fink-devel] glew needs update to 1.5.8

2011-04-26 Thread Jack Howarth
The new OpenGL shader support I enabled in the current pymol-py packaging doesn't work properly under the older glew package currently in unstable... There was an error intializing GLEW. Basic graphics, including shaders and volumes may be unavailable. GLEW-Error: GLX 1.2 and up are not sup

[Fink-devel] UseMaxBuildJobs

2011-05-01 Thread Jack Howarth
I am open to switching the gcc4x packages to build using UseMaxBuildJobs but I have one major complaint about how fink currently handles this option. It is really unrealistic to expect the users to create this entry in fink.conf on existing installations. It would be nice if the next minor fink

Re: [Fink-devel] UseMaxBuildJobs

2011-05-02 Thread Jack Howarth
Daniel, It seems like a chicken and the egg problem here with UseMaxBuildJobs. If the feature is considered entirely optional, it is difficult to rationalize using it in larger packages that beg to be built with parallel make whenever possible. Also, one can argue that there is inconsistent beha

Re: [Fink-devel] UseMaxBuildJobs

2011-05-02 Thread Jack Howarth
Hanspeter, I would definitely make the default to install the UseMaxBuildJobs entry in fink.conf and make it an opt out. Currently it is an opt in for developers to use this feature. However if we create an additional threshold which discourages users from enabling features (because lots of the

Re: [Fink-devel] UseMaxBuildJobs

2011-05-02 Thread Jack Howarth
On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 11:43:08AM -0400, Benjamin Reed wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 5/2/11 10:09 AM, Jack Howarth wrote: > > make it an opt out > > The problem with making it an opt out is that there are plenty of > package

[Fink-devel] readline packaging glitch

2011-05-08 Thread Jack Howarth
While building fink packages with clang on SL, I noticed a glitch in the readline package. It fails to link with clang 2.9svn as... clang -dynamiclib -arch_only `/usr/bin/arch` -install_name /sw/lib/`echo libreadline.4.3.dylib | sed "s:\(.*\.[0-9]\)\.[0-9]:\1:"` -current_version 4.3 -compati

[Fink-devel] llvm-gcc gmp fix

2011-05-16 Thread Jack Howarth
Currently gmp 5.0.2 fails to pass its make check when built with llvm-gcc. This is a permutation of the problem we previously saw with clang which resulted in the change of the "checking how to switch to read-only data section..." test from... const int foo = 123; to.. extern const int foo;

[Fink-devel] default fink 10.7+ to x86_6only and clang

2011-06-09 Thread Jack Howarth
Since it is unclear how many fink developers are testing Lion but not subscribed to fink-seeding, I wanted to point out the proposed patch at https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3314492&group_id=17203&atid=317203. This patch for fink cvs contains the following changes... 1) For 10.

[Fink-devel] clang now default in fink cvs for 10.7+

2011-06-10 Thread Jack Howarth
To update the previous message on the proposed clang default compiler support for Lion, this change is now checked into fink cvs. However the portion checking for the Java SDK installation wasn't so be aware that you will need to manually abort the bootstrap until that is installed. The reason i

[Fink-devel] libidn broken on 10.5

2011-06-13 Thread Jack Howarth
Benjamin, Due to the fact that gcj is broken for java compilation (but not classes) on 10.5, the libidn package build fails if gcc45 is installed. Your packaging doesn't appear to be trying use gcj but that gets tested against (which hangs) if gcc45 is installed. Since that is now only a small

[Fink-devel] 10.4-EOL and depreciating packages

2011-07-13 Thread Jack Howarth
Can we leverage the new 10.4-EOL to help depreciate out some of the oldest legacy packages in 10.4 (which is now 10.5 in all but name)? We have some packages (like postgresql*) which many legacy versions. For those packages which have no current packages depending on them and aren't supported wit

[Fink-devel] 10.7 status

2011-07-20 Thread Jack Howarth
Do we actually plan on adding the packages into 10.7 in dribs and drabs? In pre-10.7 we had support for large builds like 'fink install gnuplot' and 'fink install pymol-py26' against clang. Attached is fink_packages.txt from... dpkg --get-selections | cut -f1 > fink_packages.txt on my 10.7 bo

[Fink-devel] options for dropping Type: -64bit in 10.7

2011-07-21 Thread Jack Howarth
Dave, Is it possible for us to drop "Type: -64bit" from 10.7, yet retain the ability to properly package 32-bit shared libraries? Perhaps since we no longer have to distinguish between a 32-bit package with 64-bit files and a 64-bit package with 32-bit files, this issue is easier to solve in fi

[Fink-devel] 10.4-EOL, 10.5(aka 10.4), 10.7 and revision coherency

2011-07-21 Thread Jack Howarth
Some consensus should be arrived at on how revisions should be set in the 10.7 tree relative to 10.4-EOL/10.4(aka 10.5). For example, take the package foobar which in 10.4 may have... foobar.info with Version: 1.0 Revision: 1000 foobar-x86_64.info with Version: 1.0 Revision: 1001 Architect

Re: [Fink-devel] 10.4-EOL, 10.5(aka 10.4), 10.7 and revision coherency

2011-07-21 Thread Jack Howarth
) the 10.7 tree for the 10.7 distribution. > > -- Dave > > On Jul 21, 2011, at 9:11 AM, Jack Howarth wrote: > >> Some consensus should be arrived at on how revisions should be set >> in the 10.7 >> tree relative to 10.4-EOL/10.4(aka 10.5). For example, take t

[Fink-devel] Problem resolving dependencies. Check for circular dependencies.

2011-07-22 Thread Jack Howarth
As folks update their 10.7 trees today, we should attempt to debug the following issue which also exists in 10.4 unstable. Last night I executed... [MacPro:main/finkinfo/languages] howarth% fink -m install ghostscript Scanning package description files.. Information about 811 packages

Re: [Fink-devel] Problem resolving dependencies. Check for circular dependencies.

2011-07-22 Thread Jack Howarth
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 03:03:28PM +0200, Martin Costabel wrote: > On 22/07/11 12:42, Jack Howarth wrote: >> As folks update their 10.7 trees today, we should attempt to debug the >> following >> issue which also exists in 10.4 unstable. Last night I executed... >&g

[Fink-devel] gc-7-1001 and Lion

2011-07-22 Thread Jack Howarth
Dave, FYI, David Fang asked me to test gc under Lion so that he can push guile20 into 10.7. I noticed you were missing an InfoTest and found when one was added to gc.info that the testsuite hung at... Emulating dirty bits with mprotect/signals This reminded that the same failures exist in th

Re: [Fink-devel] gc-7-1001 and Lion

2011-07-22 Thread Jack Howarth
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 05:45:42PM -0400, David Fang wrote: > Also, I confirmed that InfoTest on powerpc-darwin8 passes its tests, but > with some (perhaps expected?) noise: > > http://paste.lisp.org/display/123443 > > Ok for me to update gc in 10.4-EOL, with: > > InfoTest: TestScript: make -k ch

[Fink-devel] depreciating numeric-py in 10.7

2011-07-24 Thread Jack Howarth
Since we are attempting to modernize the fink 10.7 distribution by eliminating older legacy packages like gcc44/gcc45 and python25, it would be nice to extend this to numeric-py whose functionality exists in numpy-py/scipy-py via the oldnumeric modules and friends. For example, I have ported pym

[Fink-devel] coreutils needs updated or regressed

2011-07-24 Thread Jack Howarth
I appears from the announcements on the coreutils web site that the 8.10/8.11 releases may cause data loss. http://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=6785 * Noteworthy changes in release 8.11 (2011-04-13) [stable] ... cp -a --link would not create a hardlink to a symlink, instead co

[Fink-devel] tar-1.26-1

2011-07-25 Thread Jack Howarth
I have been using the new tar-1.26-1 packaging that I placed on fink tracking... http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3373783&group_id=17203&atid=414256 for a week now and can happily report that, on x86_64 darwin11, it eliminates the 'file changed as we read it' warnings from fin

[Fink-devel] refactored openmpi packaging

2011-07-27 Thread Jack Howarth
I've decided that the best approach for upgrading the openmpi package to the new 1.5.3 release (which has an soversion bump) is to perform a clean break with the past lammpi/openmpi packaging with 10.7. The original lammpi/openmpi packaging in 10.4 was modified to have co-existing main packag

[Fink-devel] hardened fink

2011-07-27 Thread Jack Howarth
One issue that should be considered when deciding if fink 10.7 will support some form of an upgrade installation option is the reduction in security from that approach. By requiring a clean bootstrap of fink on Lion, we insure that almost all packages are built with the default linker behavior of

Re: [Fink-devel] hardened fink

2011-07-27 Thread Jack Howarth
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 09:56:27PM -0400, Charles Lepple wrote: > On Jul 27, 2011, at 2:03 PM, Jack Howarth wrote: > >> One issue that should be considered when deciding if fink 10.7 will >> support >> some form of an upgrade installation option > > I haven't b

[Fink-devel] avoiding gcc-4.2

2011-07-29 Thread Jack Howarth
I don't know if this is true, but someone on gmp-bugs claimed Xcode 4.2 will depreciate out the Apple gcc-4.2 compiler. If this is true, we should attempt to favor llvm-gcc-4.2 on 10.7 fink whenever clang is impossible to use for a package. Unless the problem is llvm-specific such that llvm-gc

Re: [Fink-devel] These packages work in 10.7, and I really need them ...

2011-08-01 Thread Jack Howarth
Hanspeter, The only gcc4x release in 10.7 stable will be gcc46 (or later). There should be no issues updating fftw from gcc44 to gcc46. In any case, you should have an InfoTest in fftw.info that will verify that the compiled code is passing its testsuite. Every package in 10.7 stable should ut

[Fink-devel] unifying 10.4 stable/unstable

2011-08-05 Thread Jack Howarth
Since 10.7 only has a stable tree, I think we should consider depreciating the unstable tree in 10.4 as well. This would eliminate the confusion of pulling the wrong info files over from 10.4 to 10.7 (from stable instead of unstable). The sensible approach would appear to be copying all of 10.4

Re: [Fink-devel] Move gcc46 to 10.5/stable branches ?

2011-09-15 Thread Jack Howarth
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 02:32:52PM +0200, Sébastien Maret wrote: > Hello, > > Could gcc46 be moved to 10.5/stable and 10.6/stable ? One of my package > depends on that version of the compiler, so I can't move it to stable. > > A more general question: now that we've only have a stable branch in

Re: [Fink-devel] libmpfr4-shlibs : assertion failure on Fink install

2011-10-10 Thread Jack Howarth
;t pop up as a problem for intel-darwin. Jack > >> Odd, I updated libmpfr4 after Jack Howarth (CCd) tested it for me. >> Jack, is anything visibly different between your configuration and >> theirs? >> >> Fang >> >>> Hi >>&g

Re: [Fink-devel] libmpfr4-shlibs : assertion failure on Fink install

2011-10-10 Thread Jack Howarth
ecific or a linker issue. Hacj > >> Odd, I updated libmpfr4 after Jack Howarth (CCd) tested it for me. >> Jack, is anything visibly different between your configuration and >> theirs? >> >> Fang >> >>> Hi >>> >>> more data po

Re: [Fink-devel] libmpfr4-shlibs : assertion failure on Fink install

2011-10-11 Thread Jack Howarth
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 11:17:27PM -0600, David Palmer wrote: > I did a survey of compilers to see what works and what doesn't. > > In the .info file, I changed the ../configure line to > ../configure %c "CC=llvm-gcc -m64" "CXX=llvm-g++ -m64" > --libdir='${prefix}/%lib' > etc. > > llvm-gcc

Re: [Fink-devel] libmpfr4-shlibs : assertion failure on Fink install

2011-10-11 Thread Jack Howarth
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 11:17:27PM -0600, David Palmer wrote: > I did a survey of compilers to see what works and what doesn't. > > In the .info file, I changed the ../configure line to > ../configure %c "CC=llvm-gcc -m64" "CXX=llvm-g++ -m64" > --libdir='${prefix}/%lib' > etc. > > llvm-gcc

Re: [Fink-devel] libmpfr4-shlibs : assertion failure on Fink install

2011-10-11 Thread Jack Howarth
David, I have puzzled this one out. Comparing the config.log's generated by Xcode 4.1's clang and the fink llvm29 package's clang, I see... -checking for TLS support... no +checking for TLS support... yes If I simply append --disable-thread-safe to ConfigureParams in libmpfr4.info, I am able

[Fink-devel] potential Xcode 4.2 problems

2011-10-11 Thread Jack Howarth
When Xcode 4.2 is released, we will need to be alert for new build problems on 10.7 stable. The Xcode 4.2's clang compilers now use the new TLS support in the darwin11 SDK (which wasn't the case for Xcode 4.1). This has already been discovered to break libmpfr4. If your package fails to pass it's

[Fink-devel] Potential Xcode 4.2 problems

2011-10-11 Thread Jack Howarth
Sorry for the duplicate posting but the last seemed to go out empty. With the release of Xcode 4.2, we will have to be alert to package breakage due to the newly enabled TLS support in clang under darwin11. This issue only occurs on the darwin11 SDK using llvm.org's clang 2.9 or svn under Xcode

[Fink-devel] smake build fixed with Xcode 4.2

2011-10-13 Thread Jack Howarth
e 4.1 will hang the test avoffset). Nice. Jack ps Of course the cdrtools package in 10.7 stable will need a BuildDepends of xcode (>= 4.2). Package: smake Version: 1.2.1 Revision: 1 Maintainer: Jack Howarth Source: ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/smake/%n-%v.tar.bz2 So

[Fink-devel] more Xcode 4.2 fixes

2011-10-15 Thread Jack Howarth
FYI, Apple has fixed a couple bugs we discovered in Xcode 4.0 and 4.1 with the new Xcode 4.2 release. The issue with gettext-tools' xgettext.c being miscompiled at -O2 (which we worked around with -O4) using clang from Xcode 4.1 has been fixed with a backport from llvm.org's svn. http://llv

[Fink-devel] enable path-prefix-clang for SL Xcode 4.2

2011-10-20 Thread Jack Howarth
The release of Xcode 4.2 for Snow Leopard presents fink with both a problem and an opportunity. The Xcode 4.2 SL release defaults /usr/bin/gcc and /usr/bin/g++ to the llvm-gcc-4.2 and llvm-g++-4.2 compilers respectively. This exposes fink 10.6 to a slew of llvm-gcc bugs (many yet unknown). For

Re: [Fink-devel] enable path-prefix-clang for SL Xcode 4.2

2011-10-20 Thread Jack Howarth
The ppl9.info file provides a good example of the adjustments we need to make to info files in order to support path-prefix-clang under Xcode 4.2 on SL... --- /sw/fink/10.6/stable/main/finkinfo/devel/ppl9.info 2011-09-26 09:48:21.0 -0400 +++ ppl9.info 2011-10-20 18:44:37.0

Re: [Fink-devel] enable path-prefix-clang for SL Xcode 4.2

2011-10-21 Thread Jack Howarth
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 10:06:24AM +0200, Martin Costabel wrote: > On 21/10/11 01:05, Jack Howarth wrote: > [] >> should upgrade to this version (or revert to Xcode 3.2.6). This would allow >> us to >> focus on supporting clang in the Xcode 4.x releases and encourage

Re: [Fink-devel] enable path-prefix-clang for SL Xcode 4.2

2011-10-21 Thread Jack Howarth
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 10:06:24AM +0200, Martin Costabel wrote: > On 21/10/11 01:05, Jack Howarth wrote: > [] >> should upgrade to this version (or revert to Xcode 3.2.6). This would allow >> us to >> focus on supporting clang in the Xcode 4.x releases and encourage

Re: [Fink-devel] Xcode 4.2

2011-10-21 Thread Jack Howarth
+ if [ `gcc -v 2>&1 | grep -c clang` = "1" ]; then perl -pi -e 's/-O3/-fwrapv -O3/' ./configure fi if [ "%m" = "x86_64" ]; then Those changes for instance are sufficient to build pymol-py27 without regressions

Re: [Fink-devel] Xcode 4.2

2011-10-21 Thread Jack Howarth
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 09:01:58AM -0700, David R. Morrison wrote: > > On Oct 21, 2011, at 8:50 AM, Jack Howarth wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 08:05:38AM -0700, David R. Morrison wrote: > >> So at the very least, we should put a news item on the fink webpage >

Re: [Fink-devel] Xcode 4.2

2011-10-21 Thread Jack Howarth
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 09:01:58AM -0700, David R. Morrison wrote: > > On Oct 21, 2011, at 8:50 AM, Jack Howarth wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 08:05:38AM -0700, David R. Morrison wrote: > >> So at the very least, we should put a news item on the fink webpage >

Re: [Fink-devel] Xcode 4.2

2011-10-21 Thread Jack Howarth
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 09:01:58AM -0700, David R. Morrison wrote: > > On Oct 21, 2011, at 8:50 AM, Jack Howarth wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 08:05:38AM -0700, David R. Morrison wrote: > >> So at the very least, we should put a news item on the fink webpage >

Re: [Fink-devel] enable path-prefix-clang for SL Xcode 4.2

2011-10-21 Thread Jack Howarth
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 09:02:56PM +0200, Martin Costabel wrote: > On 21/10/11 16:04 , Jack Howarth wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 10:06:24AM +0200, Martin Costabel wrote: >>> On 21/10/11 01:05, Jack Howarth wrote: >>> [] >>>> should upgrade to this v

Re: [Fink-devel] enable path-prefix-clang for SL Xcode 4.2

2011-10-21 Thread Jack Howarth
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 09:32:08PM +0200, Martin Costabel wrote: > On 21/10/11 21:18 , Alexander Hansen wrote: > >> On 10/21/11 3:02 PM, Martin Costabel wrote: > [] >>> What I mean is that a package that does not compile under clang >>> needs to include the above fix for xcode-4.2 if your automatic

Re: [Fink-devel] enable path-prefix-clang for SL Xcode 4.2

2011-10-21 Thread Jack Howarth
In view of the comments so far, the path of least resistance for fixing fink to use SL Xcode 4.2 obviously appears to be reverting the system compiler under fink to gcc-4.2 and g++-4.2 for cc/gcc and c++/g++ respectively. The simple approach would be to enhance the compiler wrapper for path-p

[Fink-devel] odd compiler_wrapper glitch in fink bootstrap

2011-10-22 Thread Jack Howarth
In an effort to implement the alternative fix of forcing SL to use gcc-4.2 for cc/gcc and g++-4.2 for c++/g++ in the path-prefix-10.6 compiler_wrapper, I decided to test the fink patch... --- PkgVersion.pm.orig 2011-10-20 14:46:20.0 -0400 +++ PkgVersion.pm 2011-10-22 11:04:44.000

[Fink-devel] alternative Xcode 4.2 fix for SL

2011-10-22 Thread Jack Howarth
I have opened http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3427243&group_id=17203&atid=317203 with an alternative patch for solving the system compiler change on SL under Xcode 4.2. The patch uses... diff -uNr fink-0.31.3/compiler_wrapper.in fink-0.31.3.new/compiler_wrapper.in --- fink-0.3

Re: [Fink-devel] Xcode 4.2

2011-10-24 Thread Jack Howarth
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 09:01:58AM -0700, David R. Morrison wrote: > > On Oct 21, 2011, at 8:50 AM, Jack Howarth wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 08:05:38AM -0700, David R. Morrison wrote: > >> So at the very least, we should put a news item on the fink webpage >

[Fink-devel] SetCFLAGS: -g -O2 -std=c89

2011-10-24 Thread Jack Howarth
Brendan, I noticed you reverted gnupg2 in 10.7 to build against llvm-gcc with the comment... # stdint.h strangeness with clang Have you tried the approach of using... SetCFLAGS: -g -O2 -std=c89 with clang in gnupg2.info as is done for gnupg.info in 10.7? I suspect this may clean up your issu

Re: [Fink-devel] enable path-prefix-clang for SL Xcode 4.2

2011-11-16 Thread Jack Howarth
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 10:52:41AM -0500, Alexander Hansen wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 10/21/11 6:09 PM, Max Horn wrote: > > Jack, > > > > Am 21.10.2011 um 21:53 schrieb Jack Howarth: > > > >> On Fri, Oct 21, 20

Re: [Fink-devel] Compiler mess on Lion (Was Re: libgeos problem)

2011-11-28 Thread Jack Howarth
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 09:42:44AM +0100, Martin Costabel wrote: > On 27/11/11 21:50, Alexander Hansen wrote: > [] >> We should probably do an apple-gcc-4.2 package, then. It might even be >> handy on 10.7. > > If it builds on 10.7, I am all for it. > > I have been trying to build the scribus packa

[Fink-devel] Apple clang issues vs Xcode 4.3

2011-12-01 Thread Jack Howarth
Since Xcode 4.3 is rumored for iOS 5.1's release, it might be worthwhile if we tried to identify instances in the fink package set where Apple's clang from Xcode 4.1/4.2 fails but clang from llvm 3.0 succeeds. Filing radar reports with test cases for those cases might help get some of these f

Re: [Fink-devel] openmpi-dev

2011-12-01 Thread Jack Howarth
ere trying to build fftw-openmpi-mpi which apparently wasn't adjusted for the refactored openmpi package. I should be BuildDepend'ing on openmpi rather than openmpi-dev for 10.7. Jack > > Thanks anyway, > > Benjamin > > Le 01/12/11 19:58, Jack Howarth a écri

Re: [Fink-devel] openmpi-dev

2011-12-01 Thread Jack Howarth
On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 04:02:32PM -0500, Alexander Hansen wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 12/1/11 3:41 PM, Jack Howarth wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 09:17:48PM +0100, Benjamin Chagot wrote: > >> Thank you for your quick answ

Re: [Fink-devel] Compiler mess on Lion (Was Re: libgeos problem)

2011-12-02 Thread Jack Howarth
On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 09:59:31PM +0100, Martin Costabel wrote: > On 28/11/11 15:54, Jack Howarth wrote: >> On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 09:42:44AM +0100, Martin Costabel wrote: > [] >>> I have been trying to build the scribus package on Lion, without success: >>> &g

[Fink-devel] avoid Xcode 4.3

2012-02-16 Thread Jack Howarth
I would avoid Xcode 4.3 like the plague at the moment. The installation via the App Store over Xcode 4.2.1 leaves the prior broken and the new release unable to install its Command Line Tools (which are no longer installed by default). I was forced to deinstall the Xcode 4.2.1 release with the de

[Fink-devel] Xcode 4.3 installer glitch

2012-02-16 Thread Jack Howarth
I've confirmed with both a clean install of Lion/Xcode 4.3/Command Line Tools as well as an upgrade install of Xcode 4.3/Command Line Tools over Xcode 4.2.1 that the installations fail to set the developer directory path. In both cases, executing 'xcodebuild -version' produces the error message

[Fink-devel] Xcode 4.3 c++ symlink

2012-02-16 Thread Jack Howarth
I just noticed that executing the missing... sudo xcode-select -switch /Applications/Xcode.app on the Xcode 4.3 upgrade (followed by Command Line Tools installation) from Xcode 4.2.1, resets the c++ symlink from llvm-g++-4.2 to the expected clang++. Hopefully Apple can upgrade the Command Line

[Fink-devel] fixing developer directory path in fink?

2012-02-17 Thread Jack Howarth
It might be a reasonable idea to add a few lines of code to fink that checks for an unset developer directory path. I believe all recent Xcode releases have been setting this path so only Xcode 4.3 would result in 'xcodebuild -version' producing the error... Error: No developer directory found

Re: [Fink-devel] fixing developer directory path in fink?

2012-02-17 Thread Jack Howarth
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 11:00:34AM -0500, Alexander Hansen wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 2/17/12 10:04 AM, Jack Howarth wrote: > > It might be a reasonable idea to add a few lines of code to fink > > that checks for an unset developer d

[Fink-devel] dyld: lazy symbol binding failed: Symbol not found: _Perl_Gthr_key_ptr

2012-02-18 Thread Jack Howarth
While doing a clean bootstrap of fink 0.32.3 under Xcode 4.3, I am seeing a postinstall failure during the installation of xml-sax-expat-pm5123 to satisfy the build dependencies for relax-py27. /sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait -i /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-x86_64/libs/perlmods/xml-sax-expat

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