On 11/20/05, Frank Eory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > I was hoping somebody would point me to a faq on the net. I have a > package, bison, that needs to be installed because it's required by > another bigger package on my Mac 10.3. The bigger package wants version > 2.1 while the fink info and patch files for bison have version 1.35 in > the /sw/fink/10.3/XXX/main/finkinfo/devel/ where XXX is stable and > unstable. I have since downloaded the source for bison2.1 and placed it > in /usr/local/src/bison2.1 > > My questions are: > A) how do I tell fink that this package installed after a successfull > ./configure, make, sudo make. >
You can't do it this way, unfortunately. > Or, B) what do I do to the .info and .patch files to get fink to > install it itself, either off the net or from my source directory. > At a minimum, you would want to change the source and MD5 to match the new version. Check out http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/quick-start-pkg/index.php and http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/packaging/index.php for more info. > I also have another issue, which may be related. I did a search in > finder for bison2.1 and it did not show the files in in /usr/local/src. > Why is this happening? I unhid the hidden directories in finder such > that in Macintosh HD I can see all of the files that are hidden by > default on Mac OS 10.3. When I do ls -all in terminal, I have > drwxr-xr-x for the bison file permissions follwed by my own login name > for the ownership. I tried a find in finder for the other files in > /usr/local/src and they were not found either. Maybe "visible" doesn't equate to "able to be found via a search"--I'm not sure about this though. > > Thanks for any help, > Frank > > > -- Alexander K. Hansen Fink Documenter [Day Job] Levitated Dipole Experiment http://psfcwww2.psfc.mit.edu/ldx/ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the JBoss Inc. Get Certified Today Register for a JBoss Training Course. Free Certification Exam for All Training Attendees Through End of 2005. For more info visit: http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idv28&alloc_id845&op=click _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
