[Fink-users] Python Question

2011-01-03 Thread Paul Fons
Sorry to trouble the list about a general question, but I am above my head here. I would like to install a python package from http://www.diffpy.org/ called pdfgui that is written in python. It uses python to install itself and always ends up with a lipo error lipo: can't open input file:

[Fink-users] autoconf version problem upon upgrading

2009-11-29 Thread Paul Fons
I am having trouble updating gd2. When I try the upgrade process, I get the message that I need to install automake1.11. Proceeding with the install, fink downloads automake1.11 and starts the config process. The install, however, hangs up upon a check of autoconf version (must be

[Fink-users] OpenSSH question

2009-03-30 Thread Paul Fons
A few weeks or so ago, I remember installing openssh via fink on my macbook pro (15 Al unibody). Using ssh to connect to other machines worked fine, however, I found that I could not ssh in to my machine anymore. After scratching my head for a while, I gave up and removed the openssh

[Fink-users] sshd problem

2009-03-30 Thread Paul Fons
my own copy of leopards sshd with debug on and a different port. The key line behind the error seems to userauth_pubkey: disabled because of invalid user. Does anyone have any idea how this can come about -- a google of the line was basically dry. Paul Fons (debug log from sshd

[Fink-users] Conflict in install gcc43

2008-03-11 Thread paul fons
Upon running fink update-all, I noticed there was a new distribution of gcc (gcc43) which I then attempted to install. This is on a MacBook Pro with 10.5.2. Fink reports unresolvable conflicts in the installation process and I am looking for suggestions as to what to try next. Fink is

[Fink-users] Leopard problems?

2007-11-04 Thread paul fons
I just attempted to run fink selfupdate after upgrading to leopard and it appears that there is a hickup. Does anyone have any idea of what to try. I do have the new Xtools build system installed, but gcc itself is still 4.0.1. To be honest, I don't understand the error message how is

[Fink-users] Offtopic rsync question

2007-10-17 Thread Paul Fons
I know this is a little off topic, but there are not so many venues where one can ask a unix based mac question. I have tried a variation on the monkey and typewriter approach (with me replacing the monkey) and have yet to come up with a combination of flags that will get the job

[Fink-users] Imagemagick tribulations solved

2007-10-03 Thread Paul Fons
Thanks all for helping me track down the problem. As you suspect it was a path issue. Quite a while ago now, I found that fink's copy of teTeX was breaking my TeXShop installation as I was using TeXLive with TeXShop and the higher precedence of fink's version caused a variety or

Re: [Fink-users] Imagemagick tribulations solved

2007-10-03 Thread paul fons
, if this is not the case, fink is not behaving as expected as the cause of my problems was pretty clearly moving the fink order in my path around. Paul On Oct 3, 2007, at 6:38 PM, Martin Costabel wrote: Paul Fons wrote: Thanks all for helping me track down the problem. As you suspect

[Fink-users] Imagemagick update failure

2007-10-02 Thread paul fons
...the actual problem you're having is with the popt package. What version of the gettext-tools package do you have installed? Does reinstalling it ('fink reinstall gettext-tools') solve the building of the popt package? dan -- Daniel Macks [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Fink-users] Imagemagick tribulations

2007-10-02 Thread paul fons
Well I mentioned that autoreconf seemed to be different on the PPC and the Intel macs I had. Upon checking another Intel (Mac Pro) I found that his also had version 2.60 of autoreconf. I note that in trying to build popt, I end up with errors due to an undefined symbol still (where

[Fink-users] Problems upgrading imagemagick

2007-10-01 Thread paul fons
to it? A detailed clipping of the (failed) build process is pasted below for reference. Thanks, Paul Fons $fink update-imagemagick fink: unknown command update-imagemagick. Type 'fink --help' for more information. ~ $fink update imagemagick Information about 6561 packages read in 1 seconds

[Fink-users] teTeX and MacTeX question

2007-10-01 Thread paul fons
On a MacPro running 10.4.10, I am having some trouble installing an update to gnuplot. I have deleted my previously installed LaTeX installation to see if I could complete the build process (thinking it was a conflict of some sort between tex distributions), but the same problem persists.

Re: [Fink-users] gwTeX and TeXLive problem

2007-02-07 Thread Paul Fons
On Feb 8, 2007, at 12:59 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: On 2/7/07, Paul Fons wrote: I am a little late it would appear to enter into the discussion on fink's internal tex conflicting with external texs, but I thought I would offer an idea to potentially solve the problem. First, I think

[Fink-users] gwTeX and TeXLive problem

2007-02-06 Thread Paul Fons
I am a little late it would appear to enter into the discussion on fink's internal tex conflicting with external texs, but I thought I would offer an idea to potentially solve the problem. First, I think that everyone would agree that the (obsolete and discontinued) version of teTeX

[Fink-users] Internal error

2006-12-20 Thread Paul Fons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I just tried updating my fink (which I do every week or so) and encountered the following error. Any idea why fink thinks that it needs to reinstall system-tetex again? Paul fink selfupdate ... lots of

[Fink-users] Intel binary install and x11

2006-10-05 Thread Paul Fons
of three different x11 environments (e.g. fink ignores I have Apple's x11 already installed). Is the binary installation broken -- and is there a way to get fink to acknowledge that I have Apple's x11 installed? Thanks for any help. Paul Fons

[Fink-users] Perl 5.8.2 generates unwanted dependency

2004-04-26 Thread Paul Fons
1" (no matching packages/versions found) [tachyon:~] paulfons% perl --version This is perl, v5.8.2 built for darwin-2level Any suggestions as to how to get fink to calm down on the issue. Dr. Paul Fons S

[Fink-users] Incorrect xfree dependency in gnuplot?

2004-01-06 Thread Paul Fons
not satisfied [etld1220:~] paulfons% fink update etherreal Dr. Paul Fons Senior Researcher National Institute for Advanced Industrial Science Technology METI Optoelectronics Division Umezono 1-1-4 Tsukuba, Ibaraki JAPAN 305-8568 tel

[Fink-users] compilation problem

2003-09-29 Thread Paul Fons
I am trying to compile a set of packages for doing x-ray absorption spectroscopy. Eventually, I would like to make these part of fink (they are all open source projects). In any case, I hit a snag in compiling linking one of the packages which I don't understand. The package uses pgplot

[Fink-users] g77 linking question

2003-09-05 Thread Paul Fons
I am trying to link some code that is written in fortran. All of the individual modules compile just fine in g77, however, the link step fails. As I am using the pgplot libraries, I have included the canonical -framework AppKit and -framework Foundation keywords in my linking step. For the

[Fink-users] g77 framework keyword not recognized

2003-07-22 Thread Paul Fons
I am trying to make a package (that compiled fine under g77 3.1), but chokes using gcc 3.3.1 when referencing the frameworks keyword: g77 -O2 -o diffkk ../diffkk/diffkk.o ../diffkk/lib.o ../diffkk/dkinp.o ../diffkk/str2at.o ../diffkk/dkfit.o ../diffkk/dkfcn.o ../diffkk/dklog.o libifeffit.a \

[Fink-users] Screen updates of Apple's new X11 (beta 3)

2003-03-30 Thread Paul Fons
I updated quite a while ago to the third public beta of Apple's X11 and noticed some problems with pgplot updates. In particular, I have program that links in pgplot. Under the first and second beta of X11, when a plot was redrawn the pgplot window updated immediately. Now, with the third

[Fink-users] Qt compile problem

2003-01-08 Thread Paul Fons
In doing an update-all, I was asked to satisfy a virtual dependency on qt (below) Information about 2061 packages read in 1 seconds. fink needs help picking an alternative to satisfy a virtual dependency. The candidates: (1) qt3: Cross-Platform GUI application framework. (2) qt3-dev:

[Fink-users] Maximum number of processes in 10.2

2002-12-08 Thread Dr. Paul Fons
I was attempting to run a bltwish application and the script just hung for no apparent reason. When I attempted to look at the application via ps in terminal, I was told there were no more processes. I suspect that I had something like 132 processes running at the time. Since I am using X11

[Fink-users] tcl/tk BLT2.4z library build problem

2002-11-28 Thread Dr. Paul Fons
Hello, I am trying to build and install the tk-extending library BLT2.4z (plotting functions for Tk) and adding it onto the fink distributed tcltk. After download the source for blt from sourceforge, I was pleased to see that configure recognized darwin (but it stated darwin6.2 -- isn't

[Fink-users] tcl-related include file problem

2002-11-23 Thread Dr. Paul Fons
Howdy I am trying to compile a portable diffraction software sweet from NIST and thought it would be a snap as I have tcltk installed from fink. I hacked the make file included for linux shown below and it almost worked -- the problem seems to be with the headers in tk.h specifically symbols

[Fink-users] g77 compiling problem

2002-11-18 Thread Dr. Paul Fons
I am trying to compile some code that needs to be compiled with g77. I have done this one two machines both running the latest g77 from fink and am now trying it on a third machine. All machines are running 10.2.2. On the latest machine, however, the compilation stops with:

[Fink-users] libpcap trojan alert

2002-11-16 Thread Dr. Paul Fons
I noticed on the register this morning a report that stated that libpcap sources had been infected with a trojan. They include MD5 checksums for the altered and unaltered sources for double checking. What is the status on the MD5 checksum for fink -- did it have the right checksum. This site

[Fink-users] libpcap trojan update

2002-11-16 Thread Dr. Paul Fons
In reference to my earlier note, it would appear that fink is not immediately in trouble as my copy of libpcap is libpcap-0.6.2-6.info as opposed to the infected version 0.7.1. I also scanned the sources for the URL that the Houston group posted and didn't find them. This is something to be

[Fink-users] libxml build problem

2002-10-26 Thread Dr. Paul Fons
Hi I am running fink version: [Quark:~/Ports/horae-005] paulfons% fink --version Package manager version: 0.10.0.cvs Distribution version: 0.4.9.cvs and find that I can't compile the package libxml. I thought this might have come up before, but a search of the user-list mailing archives came

[Fink-users] cups - how to use it

2002-04-16 Thread Dr. Paul Fons
Just to get a taste of what apple has bought with its purchase of a cups license, I installed the fink version. Has anyone else played with this at all. It would seem to be designed to interact with a web page on the host at a specified port, but it seems not to be enabled. Any quick

[Fink-users] LessTif problem?

2002-04-10 Thread Dr. Paul Fons
I am an amateur at unix programming and am trying to compile a motif based application that does laue diffraction pattern simulations (laueX) (I might even submit it to fink if I can figure out how to get it to execute). The compilation goes fine with some multiple definition warnings (e.g.)

[Fink-users] db3-shlibs compile problem

2002-03-31 Thread Dr. Paul Fons
Sorry to bother you with something that may be trivial, but I don't know what to try next. I have been using fink for quite a while and am only having a problem after a recent cvs update (probably a month or so ago I would guess) with compiling the update. I am running 10.1.3 and have

[Fink-users] db3 compile failure

2002-03-29 Thread Dr. Paul Fons
Upon updating my fink packages using cvs, fink wished to compile several new packages. Some compiled OK, but part way through when fink tries to compile db3, the compile fails due to a file (iostream.h) not being found. The specific section where the error occurs is pasted below: The weird