Re: [Fink-users] cross-post : mac osx:fink + coot 0.6

2009-12-04 Thread Nathaniel Echols
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Alexander Hansen < alexanderk.han...@gmail.com> wrote: > It sounds like coot was trying to build as 64-bit or universal on your > system, then. > > If you haven't selfupdated lately, then do that, since coot just got > updated last night. I always run selfupdate b

Re: [Fink-users] cross-post : mac osx:fink + coot 0.6

2009-12-04 Thread Nathaniel Echols
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Alexander Hansen < alexanderk.han...@gmail.com> wrote: > Are you on 32-bit or 64-bit Fink? > 32-bit Does config.log show something that actually says "error"? > After the GtkGlExt test: collect2: ld returned 1 exit status distcc[86856] ERROR: compile conftest.c

Re: [Fink-users] cross-post : mac osx:fink + coot 0.6

2009-12-04 Thread Nathaniel Echols
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 9:02 AM, Bryan W. Lepore wrote: > -- Forwarded message -- > Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 11:38:00 -0500 > From: Bryan W. Lepore > To: c...@jiscmail.ac.uk > > [ mac osx 10.4 fink 0.29.9 ] > [ reading WG Scott OSX wiki] > [ coot 0.6-pre installs OK on

Re: [Fink-users] fontconfig, and finding packages

2009-11-16 Thread Nathaniel Echols
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Alexander Hansen < alexanderk.han...@gmail.com> wrote: > It's helpful to tell us what OS you're on, because of differences in OS > versions. > 10.6.2 > libfontconfig.la is a symbolic link on 10.5 and later. Try "fink > rebuild fontconfig2-dev ; fink reinstall f

Re: [Fink-users] fontconfig, and finding packages

2009-11-16 Thread Nathaniel Echols
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Martin Costabel wrote: > Second, a feature request: when I run a command like "fink install >> fontconfig", if the package is not found could it please print something >> more helpful than "no package found for specification 'fontconfig'"? There >> is obviously a

[Fink-users] fontconfig, and finding packages

2009-11-16 Thread Nathaniel Echols
I tried updating fink ("fink selfupdate" followed by "fink update-all") for the first time in a few weeks, and it promptly failed on gtk+2-2.16.6-2: grep: /sw/lib/fontconfig2/lib/libfontconfig.la: No such file or directory sed: /sw/lib/fontconfig2/lib/libfontconfig.la: No such file or directory li

Re: [Fink-users] setting number of CPUs for compilation

2009-11-04 Thread Nathaniel Echols
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Daniel Macks wrote: > Fink has an internal setting to allow propagation of the MAKEFLAGS > shell environment variable into the build process (fink usually blanks > this field as part of its environment-consistency policy). That way a > user can decide what to do,

Re: [Fink-users] setting number of CPUs for compilation

2009-11-04 Thread Nathaniel Echols
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 11:43 AM, monipol wrote: > Fink itself does not set -j in MAKEFLAGS because, as Jack has explained, > parallel make is not supported by every package. Fink does use -j1 in make > install, though. Packagers are free to test -j in their packages and enable > it via SetMAKEFLA

Re: [Fink-users] setting number of CPUs for compilation

2009-11-04 Thread Nathaniel Echols
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 7:34 AM, Jack Howarth wrote: > Keep in mind that not all source packages support > a parallel make. If I recall correctly, openmotif for > example has issues. It would be better to encourage > package maintainers to simply enable the parallel > make in their info files by u

[Fink-users] setting number of CPUs for compilation

2009-11-02 Thread Nathaniel Echols
Is there any way to do this? It is automatically using every core on my workstation, and it gets a little sluggish when this happens. I'd prefer to limit it to 6 or 7, but setting MAKEFLAGS="-j6" didn't work, and Google hasn't turned up any more ideas so far. thanks, Nat