You asked why Fink Commander cannot be installed using Fink.
Here's a brief summary: the things which Fink installs are designed to be
put into one location in the filesystem, and to stay there. Most Mac OS X
applications, including Fink Commander, are designed so that they can be
put anywhere
Hi,
I would really like to contribute to the fink project by porting some
applications but unfortunately
it seems I'm lacking some basic knowledge of the steps needed. When I
start the configure script of some applications I would like to port I
usually have the problems that some libs are not
I have tried cups after installing kde - but there is a problem, cupsd stops
with an error that it cannot find config file $prefix/etc/cups/cups.conf. It
seems that the finkinfo file contains an error which prevents cupsd from
running. I have found a few lines where the $ sign is escaped
At 21:52 Uhr +0200 14.06.2002, Dirk Vollmerhaus wrote:
I have tried cups after installing kde - but there is a problem, cupsd stops
with an error that it cannot find config file $prefix/etc/cups/cups.conf. It
seems that the finkinfo file contains an error which prevents cupsd from
running. I have
At 14:26 Uhr -0700 13.06.2002, Jim White wrote:
Unless I missed something, it's pretty hard to offer feedback on the
web site (joining this list was the only thing I could figure out -
which isn't all bad since I do plan to port some packages to fink).
Anyhow, I just wanted to suggest one
At 16:53 Uhr -0400 14.06.2002, David R. Morrison wrote:
Actually, Max, he was just copying what was already there (the remark about
safer to copy info files).
I already added his main suggested change, that the user should run
fink index after adding entries to the Trees: line in fink.conf.
More good news : the following build successfully
libiconv-1.7-5 gettext-0.10.40-3
swig-1.3.11-2 (but note: BuildDepends on drscheme _ build failed
when first I tried it with still a gcc2 drscheme - when calling
/sw/bin/mzc ...)
gnumeric-1.0.6-2 (but a bunch of scrollkeeper-install crashes at the
On Friday, June 14, 2002, at 10:55 AM, Benjamin Reed wrote:
On Fri, 2002-06-14 at 13:31, Uwe Kuhlmann wrote:
./configure --with-qt-dir=/sw/lib --prefix=/sw
but configure fails with :
checking for QT... configure: error: QT (= QT 3.0.2) (library qt-mt)
not found ...
Try /sw, instead of
