Hi, I attempted a fresh install of fink 0.36, but the bootstrap failed with the following. Thank you in advance for any advice/help.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- gcc -DLOCALEDIR=\"/sw/src/fink.build/dpkg-1.10.21-1238/dpkg-1.10.21/../_inst/sw/share/locale\" -DBISON_LOCALEDIR=\"/usr/share/locale\" -DLOCALE_ALIAS_PATH=\"/sw/src/fink.build/dpkg-1.10.21-1238/dpkg-1.10.21/../_inst/sw/share/locale\" -DUSEJAVA=1 -DUSEJEXE=0 -DGETTEXTJEXEDIR=\"/sw/src/fink.build/dpkg-1.10.21-1238/dpkg-1.10.21/../_inst/sw/lib/gettext\" -DGETTEXTJAR=\"/sw/src/fink.build/dpkg-1.10.21-1238/dpkg-1.10.21/../_inst/sw/share/gettext/gettext.jar\" -DLIBDIR=\"/sw/src/fink.build/dpkg-1.10.21-1238/dpkg-1.10.21/../_inst/sw/lib\" -DGETTEXTDATADIR=\"/sw/src/fink.build/dpkg-1.10.21-1238/dpkg-1.10.21/../_inst/sw/share/gettext\" -DPROJECTSDIR=\"/sw/src/fink.build/dpkg-1.10.21-1238/dpkg-1.10.21/../_inst/sw/share/gettext/projects\" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I. -I. -I.. -I.. -I../libgrep -I../gnulib-lib -I../gnulib-lib -I../intl -I../../gettext-runtime/intl -DINSTALLDIR=\"/sw/src/fink.build/dpkg-1.10.21-1238/dpkg-1.10.21/../_inst/sw/bin\" -I/sw/include -I/sw/include -c -o xgettext-x-vala .o `test -f 'x-vala.c' || echo './'`x-vala.c /bin/sh ../libtool --tag=CC --mode=link gcc -I/sw/include -L/sw/lib -o xgettext xgettext-xgettext.o xgettext-x-c.o xgettext-x-po.o xgettext-x-sh.o xgettext-x-python.o xgettext-x-lisp.o xgettext-x-elisp.o xgettext-x-librep.o xgettext-x-scheme.o xgettext-x-smalltalk.o xgettext-x-java.o xgettext-x-csharp.o xgettext-x-awk.o xgettext-x-ycp.o xgettext-x-tcl.o xgettext-x-perl.o xgettext-x-php.o xgettext-x-rst.o xgettext-x-glade.o xgettext-x-lua.o xgettext-x-javascript.o xgettext-x-vala.o libgettextsrc.la -Wl,-framework -Wl,CoreFoundation -lexpat -L/sw/lib -liconv libtool: link: `/usr/local/lib/libexpat.la' is not a valid libtool archive make[3]: *** [xgettext] Error 1 make[2]: *** [all] Error 2 make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make: *** [all] Error 2 ### execution of /tmp/fink.gfee1 failed, exit code 2 phase compiling: dpkg-1.10.21-1238 failed ... Also include the following system information: Package manager version: 0.36.0 Distribution version: selfupdate-point (bootstrap), 10.8, x86_64 Trees: local/main stable/main Xcode.app: 5.0.1 Xcode command-line tools: 5.0.1.0.1.1377666378 dpkg-1.10.21-1238 is set to build with only one job. ERROR: Bootstrap phase 2 failed! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The library in question (libexpat,la) seems very old on my system: bash-3.2$ ls -ltr /usr/local/lib total 134528 -rwxr-xr-x 1 gmm gmm 694576 Apr 5 2006 libexpat.dylib -rwxr-xr-x 1 gmm gmm 2277044 Apr 5 2006 libfreetype.6.dylib -rwxr-xr-x 1 gmm gmm 694576 Apr 11 2006 libexpat.la Also, following up with fink selfupdate failed as well: /usr/bin/find /sw/fink -name CVS -type d -print0 | xargs -0 /bin/rm -rf fink is setting your default update method to rsync /usr/bin/rsync -az -q rsync://distfiles.master.finkmirrors.net/finkinfo//TIMESTAMP /sw/fink/TIMESTAMP.tmp I will now run the rsync command to retrieve the latest package descriptions. /usr/bin/rsync -rtz --delete-after --delete -q --include='10.7/' --include='10.7/stable/' --include='10.7/stable/main/' --include='10.7/stable/main/finkinfo/' --include='10.7/stable/main/finkinfo/*/' --include='10.7/stable/main/finkinfo/*' --include='10.7/stable/main/finkinfo/**/*' --include='VERSION' --include='DISTRIBUTION' --include='README' --exclude='**' 'rsync://distfiles.master.finkmirrors.net/finkinfo' '/sw/fink/' Scanning package description files.......... Information about 8693 packages read in 17 seconds. The following 4 packages will be installed or updated: base-files dpkg dpkg-base-files tar curl --connect-timeout 30 -f -L -A 'fink/0.36.0' -P - -O http://distfiles.sjc.ca.us.finkmirrors.net/base-files-1.9.15.tar.gz % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 100 13484 100 13484 0 0 68211 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 91727 Setting runtime build-lock... dpkg-deb -b /sw/src/fink.build/root-fink-buildlock-base-files-1.9.15-1 /sw/src/fink.build Can't exec "dpkg-deb": No such file or directory ### execution of dpkg-deb failed, exit code -1 Failed: can't create package fink-buildlock-base-files-1.9.15-1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ DreamFactory - Open Source REST & JSON Services for HTML5 & Native Apps OAuth, Users, Roles, SQL, NoSQL, BLOB Storage and External API Access Free app hosting. Or install the open source package on any LAMP server. Sign up and see examples for AngularJS, jQuery, Sencha Touch and Native! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=63469471&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list Fink-beginners@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners