Alexander Hansen wrote:
> On 9/4/07, Martin Costabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>   
>> Thomas Pulhamus wrote:
>> []
>>     
>>> Show-deps kdepim3 doesn't show guile on my machine. Yet looking at output
>>> from a previous attempt to update kdepim3, I notice it there. The only other
>>> thing that seems to require guile in that list is swig.
>>>       
>> Yes, it seems swig is the guilty party here. It's a little complicated:
>>
>> opensync build-depends on swig and on swig-shlibs
>>
>> -> swig (in its latest version 1.3.31-2) build-depends on guile18 and
>> guile18-dev
>>
>> -> swig-shlibs does not exist as version 1.3.31-2, but only as version
>> 1.3.20-1013, and this build-depends (because building swig-shlibs
>> automatically builds the swig of the same version-revision) on guile and
>> guile-dev.
>>
>> Have a look at
>>    fink show-deps swig
>>    fink show-deps swig-shlibs
>>
>> I have no idea where this swig mess comes from,
>>     
>
> Upstream stopped building libraries.
>
> but in order to work
>   
>> around it, the following should work (not tested):
>>
>>    fink install swig-shlibs
>>    fink install swig
>>
>> and then continue your update-all.
>>
>> The first "fink install swig-shlibs" builds the old swig and will
>> require guile and guile-dev version 1.4. The second "install swig" will
>> install the new swig that calls on guile18 and (hopefully) removes
>> guile-dev.
>>
>> This bug will bite anyone who wants to install opensync without having a
>> prior installation of swig or swig-shlibs. Those who upgraded an old
>> installation of swig to the most recent one will be immune to this bug,
>> and that's probably why it was not detected until now.
>>
>> --
>> Martin
>>
>>     
>
> I thought that at the time I updated swig I updated everything that
> depended on swig-shlibs.    Opensync was updated a month later.  I
> guess swig-shlibs should be tagged as obsolete.
>
>   
I've updated opensync not to Depend on swig-shlibs any longer.  So a 
"fink selfupdate" after a bit should clear this mess up.

-- 
Alexander K. Hansen
Fink User Liaison/Documenter
akh AT finkproject DOT org


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