Re: [Fink-devel] Processing *.texi files

2002-01-18 Thread Martin Costabel
Ken Williams wrote: I tried listing the .texi files (and later, the .info files) in the InfoDocs field, but when I issue 'fink install' I get a no such file or directory error. Clearly I'm misunderstanding the process. There are *.info targets in the makefile, so I added a couple

Re: [Fink-devel] man package

2002-01-21 Thread Martin Costabel
Christian Swinehart wrote: Here's the bug I ran across: [cds@moth ~] % sudo /sw/sbin/makewhatis /sw/share/man/ /usr/bin/awk: syntax error at source line 20 in function closeline context is return close (pipe_cmd); Whatis /sw/bin/makewhatis? I don't have such

Re: [Fink-devel] man package

2002-01-21 Thread Martin Costabel
On lundi, janvier 21, 2002, at 02:26 , Jeff Whitaker wrote: Christian: I fixed this in CVS, but at the cost of adding gawk and findutils as dependencies. Maybe Max's thin script idea is the way to go after all... Yes, I think this goes too far. Now I would have to install (and run,

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: macgimp pkgs and fink (was Re: plan and otherpackage systems)

2002-01-22 Thread Martin Costabel
Gordon Messmer wrote: On Mon, 2002-01-21 at 16:33, Alexander Strange wrote: As long as there are no spaces in the path, I believe it would be lsbom /Library/Receipts/foo.pkg/Contents/Resources/foo.bom | sudo rm -rf I think you mean xargs sudo rm -rf You can use lsbom -p F to get the

Re: [Fink-devel] Lesstif/nedit/... problems - possibly cause

2002-01-26 Thread Martin Costabel
David R. Morrison wrote: If Martin's observation is correct, a concern arises: How was the binary being distributed by xfree86.org compiled, and is it still equivalent to fink's, for the purposes of installing other fink packages? Dave, I just wrote about this to the XonX users forum,

Re: [Fink-devel] fink package manager changes in CVS - please try

2002-01-26 Thread Martin Costabel
Max Horn wrote: for me '-v' (lowercase v) always gives --version, not --verbose. Don't you lowercase the options sytematically somewhere? You are right, thanks. Will fix in CVS. Thanks. Works. -- Martin ___ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL

Re: [Fink-devel] solution to LessTif problem

2002-01-27 Thread Martin Costabel
David R. Morrison wrote: I've found a better solution to our LessTif problems. There is no need to compile xfree86 with -flat_namespace, so long as every package which depends on LessTif is compiled with a new LDFLAG, -force_flat_namespace . Yes, this looks like the best solution so far. I

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: pygtk

2002-02-03 Thread Martin Costabel
Dave Vasilevsky wrote: 2) The version of tar that comes with OS X (/usr/bin/tar) has a -s option that allows you to automatically rename files as they are being extracted from the tarball. Also, if there are a lot of files that refer to one of the duplicates you're renaming, you can use sed

Re: [Fink-devel] gnumeric gabber crashes - libsigc++, gtkmm,gnomemm

2002-02-03 Thread Martin Costabel
Max Horn wrote: /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 50.0.0) This is suspicious: The current version of libSystem.dylib is 55.0.0 in OSX 10.1.2. I think 50.0.0 is pre-OSX 10.1. -- Martin ___ Fink-devel

Re: [Fink-devel] readline-shlibs -- request for action

2002-02-17 Thread Martin Costabel
Sylvain Cuaz wrote: The Conflicts is correct, it is followed by a Replaces so one *can* upgrade Then why 1) does it not work for me nor for Olivier? 2) none of the other 15 -shlibs*.info has such a Conflicts: line? -- Martin ___

Re: [Fink-devel] clanlib or c++?

2002-02-19 Thread Martin Costabel
Justin Hallett wrote: Why won't this work, I have to ^C from it or in about one hour it kills Finder and crashes the system...it just sits there. justin@localhost [~/tmp-clan]$ cat conftest.C #include unistd.h justin@localhost [~/tmp-clan]$ justin@localhost [~/tmp-clan]$ cc -E -v

Re: [Fink-devel] RE: [Fink-beginners] Does gnumeric work ...?

2002-02-20 Thread Martin Costabel
Max Horn wrote: Regarding gnumeric: we have this system lib version 50.0.0 issue, it might be nice if somebody wrote a mini package with a script that checks this problem and others, and automatically suggests (and if the users says yes, also performs) and update of affected packages. This

Re: [Fink-devel] RE: [Fink-beginners] Does gnumeric work ...?

2002-02-20 Thread Martin Costabel
Max Horn wrote: Yeah, so I'd suggest this: man apt-get :-) I thought I had done this (lame excuse, I know). I did that mysself just now. There is an --reinstall option. Yes, thanks, that's exactly what I was looking for. Works, too. OTOH, this does not work for me: Alternatively, you

Re: [Fink-devel] Puzzling issue with CDPATH / libtool / gdk-pixbuf

2002-02-24 Thread Martin Costabel
Matthias Neeracher wrote: Trying to update my unstable packages at home, I run into problems with gdk-pixbuf-shlibs-0.16.0-2 and gdk-pixbuf-0.16.0-3. Both of these packages complained about not being able to find library `' (Yes, that's an empty string). I traced the build and found the

Re: [Fink-devel] sed Unterminated `s' command

2002-02-24 Thread Martin Costabel
Benjamin Reed wrote: I'm trying to make a package for squid, and it's got one small configure error. I swear I've seen something about this before but I can't for the life of me find any reference to it in the list archives. When I run configure, I end up with a bunch of lines like:

[Fink-devel] control-center problem solved

2002-02-24 Thread Martin Costabel
OK, at least one of the recent mysteries of mine is solved: control-center rebuilds now again for me. The problem was that orbit-bin was not installed. The reason is clear: nothing depends on it. So its contents that were in the orbit package before are removed. No backward compatibility. Now

Re: [Fink-devel] Puzzling issue with CDPATH / libtool / gdk-pixbuf

2002-02-25 Thread Martin Costabel
On lundi, février 25, 2002, at 01:40 , Max Horn wrote: So i strongly doubt that the system update is the culprit. Rather something else that has been changed recently. Matthias, since when exactly do you have these problems? My problems are different, but also persistent. I compiled

Re: [Fink-devel] Puzzling issue with CDPATH / libtool / gdk-pixbuf

2002-02-25 Thread Martin Costabel
On lundi, février 25, 2002, at 05:30 , Peter O'Gorman wrote: Hi, Your problems may be a conflict with gtk-doc which Masanori hasn't noticed yet... Bingo! I removed gtk-doc, and the rebuild of gdk-pixbuf completed without a hitch. So there should probably be some --disable-gtk-doc option

Re: [Fink-devel] GUI for Fink Available for Download

2002-03-04 Thread Martin Costabel
Ben Hines wrote: At 11:15 PM -0700 3/3/02, Steven Burr wrote: I've been working on a Cocoa front end for Fink. Much to my own surprise, what I've done so far actually works pretty well. In the hope that it might prove useful to the Fink project, I've made the Project Builder files

Re: [Fink-devel] Gimp 1.2.3 issues

2002-03-10 Thread Martin Costabel
Max Horn wrote: (now that I write it I vaguely remember having read something similiar on the list). Yes, I reported this same problem 2 days ago on fink-users. Alexander's answer: Obvious solution for the moment: rebuild gimp twice :-) -- Martin

Re: [Fink-devel] ever-changing upstream source

2002-03-11 Thread Martin Costabel
David R. Morrison wrote: I discovered in the last few weeks that for one of my packages (latex2html) the upstream source changes from time to time without the name of the sourcefile changing. I've discussed this with the upstream maintainers but they won't be changing their operating

Re: [Fink-devel] FYI: for users of unstable QT 3.0.1-2 through 3.0.2-4

2002-03-25 Thread Martin Costabel
Benjamin Reed wrote: I have just inherited QT, so please bear with me, I don't know some of the specifics. As I am told, the unstable QT 3.0.1-2 through 3.0.2-4 packages had a dylib bug in them that will cause upgrades to the latest package to fail. If you are having problems building the

Re: [Fink-devel] dirent.h

2002-03-31 Thread Martin Costabel
Yves de Champlain wrote: Hi I'm getting these errors and I can't figure out what the problem is /usr/include/sys/dirent.h:73: parse error before `u_int32_t' /usr/include/sys/dirent.h:73: warning: no semicolon at end of struct or union Usually a missing #include sys/types.h --

Re: [Fink-devel] qt probs

2002-04-01 Thread Martin Costabel
Chris Zubrzycki wrote: checking for QT libraries... no :-( The configure script searches for libraries with names like libqt-mt.so.3. You will have to patch it so that it looks for libqt-mt.3.dylib instead. -- Martin ___ Fink-devel mailing list

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: dpkg-1.9.20-2 breaks scanpackages and apt-get

2002-04-04 Thread Martin Costabel
Max Horn wrote: This was already fixed in CVS shortly after I commited the patch. I can up the revision in additon, too, though. It was an accidental left over from debugging. Sorry, I don't quite understand where this was fixed. Before complaining, I did a cvs update, fink rebuild and

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: dpkg-1.9.20-2 breaks scanpackages and apt-get

2002-04-04 Thread Martin Costabel
Martin Costabel wrote: Max Horn wrote: This was already fixed in CVS shortly after I commited the patch. I can up the revision in additon, too, though. It was an accidental left over from debugging. Sorry, I don't quite understand where this was fixed. Before complaining, I did

[Fink-devel] dpkg-1.9.20-2 breaks scanpackages and apt-get

2002-04-04 Thread Martin Costabel
The new dpkg-1.9.20-2 prints the messages Reading version This is Mac OS X 10.1.3 This breaks fink scanpackages, because it writes many copies of these messages into the Packages.gz files. These can then no longer be parsed by apt-get update. On the fink compile server: % zcat

Re: [Fink-devel] Plans for 0.4.0 and future releases

2002-04-06 Thread Martin Costabel
Max Horn wrote: 1) Stable-Move-Phase We try to get as many package to stable. This way we can ensure a big binary distro, plus stable users have more current stuff. Of course, we still must be careful doing so, it's no use to have packages in stable that don't work properly. So don't rush!

[Fink-devel] ghostscript6-nox | ghostscript-nox

2002-04-06 Thread Martin Costabel
Jeff, in the ghostscript6-nox info file there are 2 identical lines Conflicts: ghostscript, ghostscript-nox, ghostscript6 Shouldn't the second one rather say Replaces:? And shouldn't there be a line Provides: ghostscript-nox so that packages that don't care what version of ghostscript is

Re: [Fink-devel] Plans for 0.4.0 and future releases

2002-04-07 Thread Martin Costabel
David R. Morrison wrote: Martin Costabel wrote: [] - agqt-0.9.1-1 - ispell-french-1.0-1 - ispell-german-20011124-1 (ispell-italian is broken ATM, because the upstream maintainer is moving to a new URL and the source is no longer available on the net. I had positive reports about

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: docbook (sgml-entities-iso8879-1986-2)

2002-04-09 Thread Martin Costabel
. In fact, why did this discussion jump from fink-beginners to fink-devel? You might not have seen my answer on fink-beginners: Martin Costabel wrote: Eric Dufour wrote: [] head -n 4 /sw/src/root-sgml-entities- iso8879-1986-2/sw/share/sgml/entities/iso8879/iso-amsa.gml /sw/src/root-sgml

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: [ fink-Package Submissions-543612 ] FinkCommander package

2002-04-14 Thread Martin Costabel
Max, thanks for continuing this here. I am sure you understand that this is nothing personal, we are all trying to find out what is best for the future of Fink. And please take my slightly too sharp arguments as I am taking yours: as an effort to bring the discussion to the point more quickly.

[Fink-devel] Re: [Fink-users] Calling mozilla

2002-04-15 Thread Martin Costabel
On lundi, avril 15, 2002, at 02:48 , Masanori Sekino wrote: On Sun, 14 Apr 2002 15:02:08 +0200 Martin Costabel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the exec is wrong, it should not be there. Without the exec, it works as expected. Fixed in 0.9.9-4. Is this also an issue for the version in stable? I

Re: [Fink-devel] bug in fink? or bug in me? =)

2002-04-15 Thread Martin Costabel
Benjamin Reed wrote: [] pkg rrdtool version 1.0.33-6 The following package will be installed or updated: rrdtool The following additional package will be installed: rrdtool-shlibs Do you want to continue? [Y/n] rm -rf rrdtool-1.0.35-2 mkdir -p /sw/src/rrdtool-1.0.35-2 tar -xvzf

Re: Fwd: RE: [Fink-devel] Re: [Fink-users] Calling mozilla

2002-04-16 Thread Martin Costabel
Chris Devers wrote: Create (and install) a small package in the local tree containing lines like (add any number of packages you want to the Depends line): Type: bundle Depends: xfree86-base (= 4.2.0-4), xfree86-rootless (= 4.2.0-2) Description: Prevents automatic update...

Re: [Fink-devel] April 2002 Developer Tools OUT

2002-04-22 Thread Martin Costabel
Max Horn wrote: At 22:22 Uhr +0100 20.04.2002, Finlay Dobbie wrote: [] Also, gcc is gcc3, and I think configure scripts search that first. Not to mention, we'll probably want to move to the gcc3 tool chain ASAP anyway. :-) Do we? Why? [] Don't think so. I don't think so either. The c++

Re: [Fink-devel] 0.4.0a vs. 0.4.1

2002-04-24 Thread Martin Costabel
On mercredi, avril 24, 2002, at 03:28 , Max Horn wrote: There were some issues that made us consider getting out quickly a 0.4.0a release. Like for example: * dangerous problem in passwd * broken libmpeg * broken r-base * source bootstraping seems not possible w/o trick (trick being

Re: [Fink-devel] Hmm. I wonder what this means?

2002-04-25 Thread Martin Costabel
Kyle Moffett wrote: I found something interesting here, and I wonder what it means: /Developer/Makefiles/CoreOS/dpkg/control: Package: coreosmakefiles Maintainer: Darwin Developers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: Core OS Makefiles Build-Depends: cctools, libsystem, files, zsh, gnumake,

Re: [Fink-devel] notice on web page about passwd problem?

2002-05-02 Thread Martin Costabel
David R. Morrison wrote: +p2002-05-01: To avoid inadvertantly erasing files from their disks, all +Fink users are urged to update the ipasswd/i package in their Fink +installations as follows:/p +ulli Use fink selfupdate-cvs, to update your fink files/li Dave, doesn't this leave the

[Fink-devel] imlib and libungif dependency problem

2002-05-03 Thread Martin Costabel
I see from the cvs log that the libungif package used to have a Provides: giflib-bin line in its -bin splitoff part and that this was removed as dangerous. Dave, why is this dangerous? This missing Provides prevents me from upgrading my packages via apt-get from the machine where I did the

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: file locations for emacsen-common

2002-05-11 Thread Martin Costabel
I am still having problems with this package. Now it doesn't want to be installed nor to be removed (actually, after jumping through a couple of hoops that I forgot, but at least involving sudo touch /sw/var/lib/emacsen-common/installed-flavors, I got it reinstalled and then removed. Won't touch

[Fink-devel] Re: [Fink-users] qt3-shlibs linking error

2002-05-11 Thread Martin Costabel
I am moving this to devel, because this problem is of a more principal nature. Martin Costabel wrote: I have a different problem with qt3: It builds completely, but does not install, due to qt3-shlibs conflicts with qt-shlibs qt-shlibs (version 3.0.3-3) is installed. dpkg: error

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: [Fink-users] qt3-shlibs linking error

2002-05-11 Thread Martin Costabel
OK, still replying to myself. I think I understand this now, but I would say this whole business is not a brilliant demonstration of the usefulness of the shlibs-splitoff story. In this special case, it was less than useful. Martin Costabel wrote: So it seems that while the qt-shlibs package

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: [Fink-users] qt3-shlibs linking error

2002-05-11 Thread Martin Costabel
Justin Hallett wrote: [] had to fix it, and there was no really truly pretty way. Fink is still young but I'd say there haven't been too many growing pains. Sorry about the problems i believe they should all be fixed now although ppl might still have a few problems with upgrades. Yes, I

Re: [Fink-devel] perl warning in fink 0.9.12-1

2002-05-16 Thread Martin Costabel
Bernd Kuemmerlen wrote: Use of uninitialized value in numeric gt () at /sw/lib/perl5/Fink/Package.pm line 377. I remember having had this for a while, too. It went away, maybe after doing a fink index or some other standard operation (like selfupdate or update-all). I thought it was coming

Re: [Fink-devel] Encouragement and Constructive Criticism

2002-05-16 Thread Martin Costabel
Just one remark on Marks comments (which I think are OK, and fink is going fast in the direction he wants) Mark Rahner wrote: [] I'm also aware how important it is that these packages be tested. The build-from-source hurdle alone will significantly reduce the number of folks who use these

Re: [Fink-devel] watch out for gcc

2002-05-16 Thread Martin Costabel
David R. Morrison wrote: Hi all. I was just compiling a package from unstable, and I got make: gcc: Command not found This is sometimes hard to eliminate (I should know, because you forced me to do it a couple of times :-)). The implicit suffix rules .c.o, for example, use gcc in gnumake

Re: [Fink-devel] XFree86-Rootless is borked

2002-05-24 Thread Martin Costabel
Kyle Moffett wrote: Darn, that should be fixed. Does anybody know exactly what fails? I'm gonna use the binary, but I'd like to fix the source too (For Jaguar, since it uses an updated version of the April dev tools). I suspect it's the beta-2.0 Project Builder (or is there a non-beta

Re: [Fink-devel] autoconf in fink scripts? (long)

2002-05-28 Thread Martin Costabel
Jeremy Erwin wrote: I am in the process of testing a fink port of open dx (version 4.2.0) My port uses automake, so as to keep the patch smaller and easier to debug. What packages will insure that a would be compiler can run aclocal, automake, autoconf and autoheader? I'll give a long

Re: [Fink-devel] non standard directories (dx-4.2.0 package)

2002-05-28 Thread Martin Costabel
Jeremy Erwin wrote: I've just uploaded a package description for dx-4.2.0 (a scientific visualization tool). I was just giving a long answer to your earlier post. I see that in the new version you still have BuildDepends: lesstif-dev, autoconf, automake For me, this doesn't build, because

Re: [Fink-devel] autoconf in fink scripts? (long)

2002-05-28 Thread Martin Costabel
Max Horn wrote: [...] automake-1.4-p5-2: Needed for building some packages. Only exists in stable, not in unstable, although this violates fink policy. Nonsense! This is the case for many packages - newer version exists in unstable than in stable in many cases, that's not a violation

Re: [Fink-devel] autoconf in fink scripts? (long)

2002-05-28 Thread Martin Costabel
Martin Costabel wrote: Jeremy Erwin wrote: [] I'm using fink supplied versions of automake-1.5, autoconf-2.13. Yes, I just tried this combination, too, and it compiled completely. So, unless someone has a better idea, perhaps you should require *exactly* these versions in BuildDepends

Re: [Fink-devel] autoconf in fink scripts? (long)

2002-05-29 Thread Martin Costabel
Jeremy Erwin wrote: [] relevant .m4 file to see if there's an error. Here's the autoconf-2.13 version. (/sw/share/autoconf/acspecific.m4) There is no such file in autoconf25. The closest is probably /sw/share/autoconf/autoconf/c.m4 which contains if test -z $CPP; then

Re: [Fink-devel] weird error building a QT snapshot

2002-07-03 Thread Martin Costabel
On mercredi, juillet 3, 2002, at 02:34 , Benjamin Reed wrote: It looks like the TrollTech folks have done a lot of fixes for gcc3 on macosx, I've pulled a recent snapshot and I get all the way to linking libqt-mt, but I get a really weird error: ld: .obj/release-shared-mt/qimage.o

[Fink-devel] kde: -ssl obligatory?

2002-07-04 Thread Martin Costabel
A recent fink update-all brought me the following proposition: sudo /sw/bin/fink update-all Information about 1281 packages read in 1 seconds. The following 15 packages will be installed or updated: bundle-kde kdeartwork3 kdebase3 kdebase3-dev kdebindings3 kdeedu3 kdegames3 kdegraphics3

Re: [Fink-devel] qt fails when compiled remotely

2002-07-06 Thread Martin Costabel
Corrin Lakeland wrote: kCGErrorIllegalArgument : initCGDisplayState: cannot map display interlocks. kCGErrorIllegalArgument : CGSNewConnection cannot get connection port kCGErrorIllegalArgument : CGSNewConnection cannot get connection port kCGErrorInvalidConnection : CGSGetEventPort: Invalid

Re: [Fink-devel] configure problems compiling sawfish

2002-07-06 Thread Martin Costabel
Pejvan BEIGUI wrote: Here's what I get when trying to install sawfish [localhost:~] pejvan% fink install sawfish) configure: error: You need rep-gtk version 0.14+ ### failed, exit code 1 Failed: compiling sawfish-1.0.1-1 failed [localhost:~] pejvan% fink install rep-gtk [] pkg rep-gtk

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: [Fink-users] xfree86-base-threaded

2002-09-17 Thread Martin Costabel
On mardi, sep 17, 2002, at 14:31 Europe/Paris, David R. Morrison wrote: Jeff, My suggestion is to make yourself a directory in the experimental CVS module, and put the updated version there. That way, people who need it can be pointed to it, but someone who doesn't have the latest fink

Re: [Fink-devel] errors in kde in experimental

2002-09-18 Thread Martin Costabel
Thomas Kotzian wrote: But i'm running experimental 10.2 unstable. Still not clear. Which package versions? From experimental/rangerrick/finkinfo/kde/ or from 10.2/unstable/main/finkinfo/kde/? Just for information, I had no problem compiling these on 10.2: i kdeartwork3 3.0.7-2

[Fink-devel] 10.2.1 and cvs over ssh

2002-09-19 Thread Martin Costabel
Since the upgrade to 10.2.1 I cannot access cvs.sf.net as authenticated user any more, i.e. cvs just hangs if CVS/Root is :ext:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/fink I still can do anonymous cvs, and I also can ssh to the sf.net servers without password. And it worked just before the upgrade to

[Fink-devel] Re: [Fink-beginners] fink update for 10.2.1 fails at step 5

2002-09-22 Thread Martin Costabel
(I am crossposting to fink-devel, because it seems you are seeing two or three (minor) bugs in fink that can be repaired rather quickly). Lincoln Davis wrote: I'm new to this list, but I've searched the archives and as far as I can tell, my problem is not the same as any reported here so

Re: [Fink-devel] drifting fuzz

2002-09-22 Thread Martin Costabel
Bill Bumgarner wrote: Suggestion: When updating a package, regenerate the patch file along with the update. This will eliminate the fuzz factor warnings while also ensuring a greater lifespan for any given patch (assuming no major changes in the core software). A problem is also the

Re: [Fink-devel] OpenSSL question

2002-09-25 Thread Martin Costabel
Pejvan BEIGUI wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi there, I just made a fresh install of 10.2 and reinstalled from scratch fink, following the guide on the web site. Everything runned perfectly, I'm so happy with that. Big big cheers to the team :-) while

Re: [Fink-devel] New port: package libquicktime0

2002-09-29 Thread Martin Costabel
James Watson wrote: (N.B. The patch is about 40KB so I had to compress it to get it into the mailing list That's why there is the package-submission tracker... -- Martin --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek

[Fink-devel] bindist on the servers

2002-09-30 Thread Martin Costabel
There seems to be a misconfiguration on the bindist servers: On http://eu.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/fink/direct_download/dists/ for example, there are current and release symlinks. Both point to 0.4.0 and not to 0.4.1 as they should. The result is that apt-get and dselect don't see 0.4.1.

Re: [Fink-devel] Critical bug w/ fink selfupgrade 0.4.0 - 0.4.1

2002-10-01 Thread Martin Costabel
Cyrille Artho wrote: Hi, when I try fink selfupdate there is a smaller bug and a critical error: 1) Bug: I first get an error message LATEST-FINK already exists, delete/continue/skip. This should not appear, because that file should always be overwritten. 2) CRITICAL: Then fink tries

[Fink-devel] Re: [Fink-beginners] can anyone upgrade to 0.4.1?

2002-10-02 Thread Martin Costabel
Joe Heafner wrote: Hi. I'm just wondering if anyone has actually been able to upgrade to Fink 0.4.1? It is possible that the answer is no. The upgrade from 0.4.0 or 0.4.0a to 0.4.1 via fink selfupdate has not been tested until very recently. I am forwarding this to the fink-devel list.

Re: [Fink-devel] xforms 0.9999 does not build (fink 0.4.1/src)

2002-10-09 Thread Martin Costabel
Jeff Whitaker wrote: Cyrille: fink selfupdate-cvs should get you a new version of the xforms package (xforms-1.0-1). Doesn't compile for me: After a while there is a non-fatal error: making all in ./image... rm -f image.o unshared/image.o /usr/bin/cc -c -Wall -Wpointer-arith -no-cpp-precomp

Re: [Fink-devel] libgtop fails to build

2002-10-23 Thread Martin Costabel
Etienne Beaule wrote: I'm using Mac OS 10.2.1 and the unstable 10.2 Fink distro. So far, pretty much everything I tried to install worked. I tried to compile and install bundle-gnome and libgtop failed to build with the following error: config.status: creating macros/Makefile sed: 42:

Re: [Fink-devel] How do I make this package available for me ?

2002-10-19 Thread Martin Costabel
Olaf Foellinger wrote: Hi, * Olaf Foellinger [18.10.02 19:30]wrote: How do I access this files: /cvsroot/fink/experimental/thesin/finkinfo/test ? You have to checkout the experimental module. cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/fink co experimental Then you put the info and patch

Re: [Fink-devel] Rolling back xemacs?

2002-10-25 Thread Martin Costabel
Bill Bumgarner wrote: The xemacs-21.5.9-1 package is still broken [been so for 6 weeks or so] -- it doesn't compile. In and of itself, it seems to be a minor annoyance -- the last version has been working dandy for me [and others] for quite a while. I did some tests last week, had some

Re: [Fink-devel] see kernel boot

2002-10-12 Thread Martin Costabel
Raphael Bartolomé wrote: Hi, is it possible to see the mac os x kernel at boot up like linux? I mean is there an key to see it? I don't quite see the connection with fink-devel, but yes, there is: cmd-v, to be hold down for a while at the beginning of the boot process. -- Martin

[Fink-devel] Re: [Fink-beginners] ghostscript

2002-10-27 Thread Martin Costabel
David R. Morrison wrote: [] The dependencies on zlib were removed in a wholesale fashion from a large number of packages without consulting the maintainers and without changing the revision numbers. I believe that the thought was that since any binary built in the last six months or so would

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: fink package installation makes machine unbootable

2002-10-30 Thread Martin Costabel
(I apologize for CC'ing everybody, but I feel this issue should be cleared quickly, it has the potential to damage fink's reputation, apart from annoying those who got hit by the problem). Martin Costabel wrote: Another clue might be the extract from the listing of the installer's pax file

Re: [Fink-devel] Unbootable machine after binary reinstallation

2002-10-30 Thread Martin Costabel
On mercredi, oct 30, 2002, at 16:55 Europe/Paris, David R. Morrison wrote: Martin, Should I make a new copy of the 0.4.1 installer which has permissions 775 on the root directory instead of 700? I would say yes. This would make the most fatal of the problems go away. I don't know what can be

Re: [Fink-devel] help needed testing replacement fink 0.4.1 binaryinstaller

2002-10-30 Thread Martin Costabel
David R. Morrison wrote: [] What my fix does is to alter the .pax.gz file with the contents of the installation so that the permission on . is 1755 in the directory instead of 0700. What did you do with the bom file? Not only does it still contain the permissions 700 for ., but lsbom crashes

Re: [Fink-devel] The FAQ

2002-11-02 Thread Martin Costabel
Max Horn wrote: [] So I'll look into working over it now a bit. I'd appreciate if you could tell me (on the list here) things you think should be covered by the FAQ but aren't currently. One point that has just now come up again on the user list (sigh), what to do when curl doesn't succeed to

Re: [Fink-devel] Fink clean install on 10.2 issues? (was Re: Finkaudiofile package)

2002-11-04 Thread Martin Costabel
Jason Deraleau wrote: . Since I am doing this using clean installs following the instructions provided word for word on two different Jaguar systems, I have a feeling it's something wrong with the Fink directions or distribution. How can I help the developers track this problem down? This has

Re: [Fink-devel] help needed testing replacement fink 0.4.1 binaryinstaller

2002-11-05 Thread Martin Costabel
David R. Morrison wrote: [] Martin, were you root when you created this? Or else how did you get everything to be owned by root in the .pax.gz file? That is perhaps an important step when creating future binary installers... Yes. I had tried a sudo chown -R root.admin, but then PackageMaker

[Fink-devel] crypto tree

2002-11-09 Thread Martin Costabel
I don't want to reopen a general debate about the necessity of the crypto tree, but it seems to me that there are a couple of packages in there that don't need to be. One case is ircii. I cannot see any reason why this is in crypto. Since I am maintaining it now, I took the liberty to move the

Re: [Fink-devel] How to get stable/binaries started?

2002-11-17 Thread Martin Costabel
Peter O'Gorman wrote: [] qtplay I just tried, it makes quite a mess of the screen if it finds an actual movie, I am inclined to not move it, the others have been moved. qtplay also does something illegal: SourceRename: %n-%v.c SourceDirectory: . CompileScript: cp %p/src/%n-%v.c . The

Re: [Fink-devel] Patches for xemacs-21.1.12 (or 14?)

2002-11-18 Thread Martin Costabel
On lundi, nov 18, 2002, at 10:51 Europe/Paris, Diedrich Vorberg wrote: Hello, I'd like to start out by thanking you guys for the tremendous job you've done on fink! This said here's my question: I'm trying to compile xemacs-21.1 on Jaguar. The patch I've got does I cannot imagine a reason

Re: [Fink-devel] Moving scsh package to stable

2002-11-18 Thread Martin Costabel
On lundi, nov 18, 2002, at 07:37 Europe/Paris, Michel Schinz wrote: I realise that one report (apart from mine) might not be enough to move something to stable, but I fear that's all I'll get. Seems to work. I moved it to stable. -- Martin

Re: [Fink-devel] fr2.rpmfind.net down ?

2002-11-20 Thread Martin Costabel
Pejvan BEIGUI wrote: It seems that fr2.rpmfind.net is down. I just wanted to let the package maintainers know about that issue. This server has always been rather unstable, but sometimes it does work. I don't think anything has changed there. They just have a low limit on simultaneous

Re: [Fink-devel] fink check on a non existant package spews error messages

2002-11-28 Thread Martin Costabel
On jeudi, nov 28, 2002, at 12:35 Europe/Paris, David wrote: sudo fink check cdrtools Using a hash as a reference is deprecated at /sw/lib/perl5/Fink/Validation.pm line 229, SW_VERS line 2. Strange, I get % sudo fink check cdrtools Failed: File cdrtools does not exist! as it should be. Do you

Re: [Fink-devel] Documentation: Help request, how to explain the xfree-rootless package..

2002-11-28 Thread Martin Costabel
On jeudi, nov 28, 2002, at 12:45 Europe/Paris, David wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hello The installition guide has: [a lot of old obsolete stuff] I wish to add cfree-rootless as a choice as well. While I read the info on XonX AND XFREE ROOTLESS I AM NTO QUITE

Re: [Fink-devel] LD_PRELOAD

2002-12-04 Thread Martin Costabel
Frederic VANNIERE wrote: Hello, Is it possible to use LD_PRELOAD with darwin ? DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES, man dyld -- Martin --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Visual Studio.NET comprehensive development tool, built to

[Fink-devel] Need help with Scribus

2002-12-08 Thread Martin Costabel
I'd like to appeal to you clever guys, in particular the kde wizards, to help me with the Scribus package. I have spent quite some time on this package, but it is now clear it is too big a fish for my modest knowledge of c++, libtool, qt, darwin bundles and all that. Scribus is a page layout

Re: [Fink-devel] postinstall.pl symlink

2002-12-13 Thread Martin Costabel
On vendredi, déc 13, 2002, at 07:55 Europe/Paris, Ben Hines wrote: 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

Re: [Fink-devel] The very first, general Fink Survey, PLEASE help!

2002-12-16 Thread Martin Costabel
Patrick Näf wrote: [] Sorry for my extremely negative attitude, but it is what I feel. You are not alone. -- Martin --- This sf.net email is sponsored by: With Great Power, Comes Great Responsibility Learn to use your power at OSDN's High

Re: [Fink-devel] gnome packages missing symlinks

2002-12-21 Thread Martin Costabel
S Woodside wrote: I noticed that /sw/lib/libgnomeui* looked like this: [simons-tibook:/sw/lib] root# ll libgnomeui* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 3279376 Nov 19 19:04 libgnomeui.32.14.1.dylib* lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 24 Dec 20 00:54 libgnomeui.32.dylib@ - libgnomeui.32.14.1.dylib so I

Re: [Fink-devel] selfupdate-cvs; small patch

2002-12-26 Thread Martin Costabel
Bill Bumgarner wrote: This patch causes Fink to only output the files that have been added or updated since the last fink update; all of the lines beginning with '? ' are filtered out and all of the various updating directory messages from cvs are suppressed. You can easily suppress the

Re: [Fink-devel] selfupdate-cvs; small patch

2002-12-28 Thread Martin Costabel
Bill Bumgarner wrote: [] Yes-- but the default for Fink is not to do that and I would bet that most of the users that use selfupdate-cvs have no CLUE about ~/.cvsrc. The default for Fink should be to spew only the information that is actually informative-- the current behavior does not do

Re: [Fink-devel] selfupdate-cvs; small patch

2002-12-28 Thread Martin Costabel
Let's see if we can find out why this happens. Xavier HUMBERT wrote: [] Just now, I gave a try : ? accepted for .DS_Store, which I should put in a .cvsignore :-) Yes, this is Finder garbage. su xavier -c 'cvs -z3 update -d -P' ? .DS_Store ? 10.2/.DS_Store ? 10.2/test ?

Re: [Fink-devel] selfupdate-cvs; small patch

2002-12-28 Thread Martin Costabel
Bill Bumgarner wrote: [] This has happened on every fink installation I have ever done-- many, many times. I have followed the instructions to the letter on the 'install on Jaguar' guide and 'fink selfupdate-cvs' has always produced a huge slew of the ? ... OK, I see this now. It's a

Re: [Fink-devel] selfupdate-cvs; small patch

2003-01-01 Thread Martin Costabel
Justin Hallett wrote: how does this look, it also can fix conflicts (cvs errors)...comments welcome here. Comments: - Works great and gives output that is be easier to understand for those who don't want to learn about cvs. - Two misprints in the new mesages: modified remotly should be

[Fink-devel] package db?

2003-01-04 Thread Martin Costabel
Anyone knows what happened to the pdb at http://fink.sourceforge.net/pdb/list.php? It says Found 21 packages: and shows only these. -- Martin --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf

[Fink-devel] Who should Provide X11 ?

2003-01-06 Thread Martin Costabel
I think this has been discussed before, but it has come up again a lot lately: Many (most) packages that need to run under X11 have a dependency on the virtual package x11. This is not enough to make them work. The x11 virtual package is provided by the xfree86-base package. The problem with

Re: [Fink-devel] Who should Provide X11 ?

2003-01-06 Thread Martin Costabel
David wrote: please keep in mind, that this is a VERY important decision. As the documentation maintainer I will have to make sure that every reference to X11 is then changed to the new name and that consistency is provided throughout the whole documentation. What the documentation

Re: [Fink-devel] Who should Provide X11 ?

2003-01-06 Thread Martin Costabel
Bruce Korb wrote: Jeff Whitaker wrote: Why force people to install xfree86-rootless if they don't really need to? Because is solves real, multi-hour problems. The cost is very marginal: systems that need x-base and not x servers and their price is only a few minutes of install time. The

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