Whew! Thank you for pointing out where I went wrong. Been a long time since I compiled from source and I forgot all those little conventions. I seem to have a working install now.
Jeff On Sep 28, 2010, at 1:51 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 (pulling text out of list moderation) ./bootstrap Your hardware is a 64bit-compatible intel processor, so you have the option of running Fink in 64bit-only mode. This is not recommended for most users, since many more packages are available for the default mode (which is mostly 32bit but includes some 64bit packages). Which mode would you like to use? (1) Default (mostly 32bit) (2) 64bit-only Choose a mode: [1] 1 Checking package... looks good (fink-0.29.10). Checking system... i386-apple-darwin10.4.0 This system was not released at the time this Fink release was made. Prerelease versions of Mac OS X might work with Fink, but there are no guarantees. Distribution: 10.6 Architecture: i386 Fink must be installed and run with superuser (root) privileges. Fink can automatically try to become root when it's run from a user account. Avaliable methods: (1) Use sudo (2) Use su (3) None, fink must be run as root Choose a method: [1] 1 Checking cc... looks good. Checking make... looks good. Checking head... looks good. Please choose the path where Fink should be installed. Note that you will be able to use the binary distribution only if you choose '/sw'. [/sw] /sw OK, installing into '/sw'. <AKH> If you don't enter text at those prompts, and just hit return, you'll get the default value, too. </AKH> ... Which directory should Fink use to build packages? (If you don't know what this means, it is safe to leave it at its default.) [] default Your current build directory 'default' will be indexed by Spotlight, which can make packages build quite slowly. Would you like to use 'default.build' as your new build directory, so that Spotlight will not index it? [Y/n] Y <AKH> In this case you selected "default", i.e. "/default" as your build directory, which doesn't exist on your system. Put the /sw directory in the trash, and then do your bootstrap again, and just hit the return key at the prompts when you want to use the default values. - -- Alexander Hansen Fink User Liaison -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkyiOUMACgkQB8UpO3rKjQ8ZzgCfWg0BeACVgXLExFZebRUh9pg+ w+IAnjpxj9pIpZNZgomD5y1mFRhJj4y5 =tt1w -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list Fink-beginners@lists.sourceforge.net http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners
