Marc Plum wrote: > I'm trying to put off learning more Linux than I have to, although it seems > I have to keep learning more. > > General question. When I installed Fink, it came up with messages that it > was reconfiguring my system. I let it do what it wanted. Could this in any > way cause problems if I try to install a package without using Fink? > > Here's why I ask. I installed Fink, then used apt-get to install a fink > package called scid 3.5. It works great. However, it turned out that there > is a fork called scid 3.6.18, which has significant enhancements. It's not > in the Fink distribution, so I guess I can't use Fink to install it. > Correct--at least until our package is updated. > I downloaded the tarball, if that's the right word. I installed Xcode 2.5 > Apple developer tools. I unpacked the tarball, and in the directory for the > new files, using the program author's instructions, I typed "./configure" > and "make". > > After "make", things seemed to be chugging along for a while, but there was > a slew of errors toward the end, and afterward, when I tried to run the new > program, it would just hang. > > There are any number of things this could be, and I'm not looking for > program specific support on this forum. I just wonder if Fink could have > changed any system configurations that need to be changed back if I'm going > to install software not on the Fink list. > > M P > > > The "changes" Fink makes to your system, other than actually installing packages, are just in your user environment.
You could try editing your shell startup file (e.g $HOME/.profile) and comment out Fink's environment customization, e.g. change . /sw/bin/init.sh to # ./sw/bin/init.sh Then start a new terminal window to ensure that Fink's environment is indeed not set. However, that being said, it's unlikely that Fink packages in and of themselves would cause your hanging issue. People hand-build packages using Fink-installed stuff all the time. The main issues that people run into combining Fink and hand-built packages or other packaging systems are when the wrong version of a library is chosen in a build. Unless you also built some dependencies for scid that are supposed to be of a later vintage than Fink provides, and by some chance your build linked Fink's versions instead, then I'd be more inclined to believe that the issue is something intrinsic to scid--perhaps a patch is needed (one is required on the version in Fink) to make it work properly on OS X. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list Fink-beginners@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
