Dave MacCarn writes: > When running a program called Xastir > (http://sourceforge.net/projects/xastir) the error "Shell widget has > zero width or height" occurs. It is reported from others > (http://homepage.mac.com/opzeeland1/) that this is new to Fink release > 0.4.0. Any ideas?
The instructions for running Xastir on the page you mention can be crudely summarized like this: 1) install fink 2) hack your system in ways not recommended by the fink project 3) install xastir. It's very hard to debug what's going on, when this has been the procedure. (For example, the symbolic links suggested on that page refer to an old version of fink's lesstif package and certainly wouldn't work if you have the current version of fink's lesstif package installed. There are also issues with compatibility between versions of lesstif and versions of XDarwin, and again, since those instructions circumvent fink it's hard to see what is going on.) I would suggest that someone should write an "xastir" package for fink, which uses fink's mechanisms for checking dependencies, and doesn't put symlinks into /usr/local. Once this has been done, after installing fink one would simply type "fink install xastir." If you want to take on this task, I would be happy to help. (Probably we should do it off-list, though.) -- Dave _______________________________________________________________ Have big pipes? SourceForge.net is looking for download mirrors. We supply the hardware. You get the recognition. Email Us: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
