Alexander--

Thanks for the clarifications. Since I don't have another Mac around for this,
I will try the BaseSystem.pkg option you mentioned. If I do this, though, am I
risking trashing the system?

Oddly, the only libwww I know about is the Fink-provided one, from 'fink
apropos libwww'. Could it be that CPAN installed a version of libwww in the
course of trying to get Finance::Quote working with GnuCash? F::Q has not been
working for me for a while, and I have been trying numerous ways to get it
going, including using CPAN to install the Perl modules.

Otherwise, I can't imagine how I would have trashed this file.

David

--- "Alexander K. Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

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> David T. wrote:
> > Okay, so I see that I have libwww installed, as the FAQ mentions.
> >
> > What the FAQ fails to mention, however, is what one does to restore
> > the corrupted file. I tried 'fink reinstall fink' without success.
> >
> > Also, the FAQ doesn't say what one is supposed to do if libwww is
> > needed for any reason. What are fink users of libwww supposed to
> > do?
> >
> > David
> >
> 
> This isn't a Fink-specific issue.  It's an issue with
> non-case-sensitive filesystems and installing something that thereby
> overwrites a system file.  This one, in particular, will give you
> problems with many packages that you build from source, however you do it.
> 
> You _can't_ use Fink to fix it, because it's an OS-supplied file.  You
> need to copy it from a Mac of the same architecture and OS where it's
> not broken, or try reinstalling BaseSystem.pkg from your OS install media.
>  
> And if you need libwww, Fink has a package for it that doesn't install
> files in the system area.
>  
> > --- "Alexander K. Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > There's a line in gtkdoc-mkhtml that says:
> >
> > if head -n 1 $document | grep "<?xml" > /dev/null; then ...
> >
> > That's probably what is throwing the "unknown option" error.   On
> > my system both /usr/bin/head from the system and /sw/bin/head from
> > Fink's coreutils have no problems with the -n flag, so I suspect
> > that yours got overwritten, possibly as per the FAQ:
> >
> > http://www.finkproject.org/faq/comp-general.php#head
> >
> >
> > David T. wrote:
> >>>> I am bumping this thread, since there's been no reply to the
> >>>> additional information I provided...
> >>>>
> >>>> --- "David T." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 09:05:15 -0800 (PST) From: "David
> >>>>> T." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Fink-beginners]
> >>>>> Ongoing Update issues (Orbit2) To: "Alexander K. Hansen"
> >>>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC:
> >>>>> [email protected]
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I should mention this is a Macbook Pro with an Intel
> >>>>> processor.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I will assume you mean "a line or two before the 200 lines
> >>>>> just like the openjade line I included..." ;)
> >>>>>
> >>>>> The section right before this looks like:
> > <snip>
> >
> >>>>> mkdir ./html cd ./html && gtkdoc-mkhtml ORBit2
> >>>>> ../ORBit2-docs.sgml Unknown option: n
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> --- "Alexander K. Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>> David T. wrote:
> >>>>>>>> I continue to have serious troubles with Fink
> >>>>>>>> updating under Tiger 10.4.11. Most apps I try to
> >>>>>>>> install or update hang when they try to update
> >>>>>>>> orbit2-2.14.7-2 as a dependency. The tail of the
> >>>>>>>> install is:
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>
> >
>
/sw/bin/openjade:<URL>http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/ent/iso-amsr.ent:22:18:E:
> >
> >>>>>>>> "X22A3" is not a function name /sw/bin/openjade:I:
> >>>>>>>> maximum number of errors (200) reached; change with
> >>>>>>>> -E option make[3]: *** [html-build.stamp] Error 1
> >>>>>>>> make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: ***
> >>>>>>>> [all-recursive] Error 1 make: *** [all] Error 2
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> fink --version yields: Package manager version:
> >>>>>>>> 0.27.9 Distribution version: 0.8.1.rsync i386
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> This has gotten increasingly annoying, as many fink
> >>>>>>>> applications seem to rely on this package.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Can anyone suggest a workaround or fix?
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Thanks, David
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>> How about including a line or 2 just above the "tail"?  It
> >>>> worked just fine for me (10.4.11/PowerPC).
> >>>>
> >>
> >>
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