[Fink-devel] problem with buildlock

2005-01-08 Thread Benjamin Reed
...well, dunno if it's buildlock, but something's gone whacky: If this is not true (perhaps the previous build process crashed?), just remove the fink package: fink remove fink-buildlock-distcc-2.18.3-1 Then retry whatever you did that led to the present error. ...

Re: [Fink-devel] problem with buildlock

2005-01-08 Thread Benjamin Reed
Benjamin Reed wrote: disco-volante:/sw/fink/dists/local/rangerrick/common/main/finkinfo/devel ranger$ fink remove fink-buildlock-distcc-2.18.3-1 Information about 4465 packages read in 7 seconds. Failed: no package specified for command 'remove'! On closer look, that package wasn't even

Re: [Fink-devel] problem with buildlock

2005-01-08 Thread Jean-François Mertens
On Jan 8, 2005, at 4:06 PM, Benjamin Reed wrote: Should be easy enough to replicate, just have a package that fails CompileScript. No need even: /sw/lib/perl5/Fink# fink remove ztrack-1.0-1 Information about 5062 packages read in 4 seconds. Failed: no package specified for command 'remove'!

[Fink-devel] Updating freetype2

2005-01-08 Thread Martin Costabel
I have been using the freetype2-2.1.9-1 package from neeri's exp dir for quite some time without problems. For all my purposes it was backward compatible with 2.1.3 (i.e. things compiled with the old library continue to run with the new one, and everything builds against the new version

Re: [Fink-devel] Updating freetype2

2005-01-08 Thread Jean-François Mertens
On Jan 8, 2005, at 6:39 PM, Martin Costabel wrote: I have been using the freetype2-2.1.9-1 package from neeri's exp dir for quite some time without problems. For all my purposes it was backward compatible with 2.1.3 (i.e. things compiled with the old library continue to run with the new one,

[Fink-devel] hardcoded /sw/bin/perl

2005-01-08 Thread Jean-François Mertens
When a user decides no longer to use one of fink's perl packages, and to use apple's perl, he is left with a large number of broken pkgs, which have hardcoded somewhere /sw/bin/perl, w/o explicitly depending on it. To get an idea of the extent of the problem, I just tested files in /sw/bin _ and

[Fink-devel] Re: Updating freetype2

2005-01-08 Thread Matthias Neeracher
On Jan 8, 2005, at 9:39 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: I have been using the freetype2-2.1.9-1 package from neeri's exp dir for quite some time without problems. For all my purposes it was backward compatible with 2.1.3 (i.e. things compiled with the old library continue to run with the new one,

Re: [Fink-devel] Updating freetype2

2005-01-08 Thread Martin Costabel
Jean-François Mertens wrote: [] Would an update to 2.1.7 (for a short time hopefully) not satisfy scribus ? Unfortunately not. I cannot say I understand this, but there it is. I made a freetype2-2.1.7 package (had to redo the patch file), but I still get the crash with it. Looking at the