Hi folks:

I managed to create a bug in some people's fink installations. This will occur only if you installed ccp4, so fortunately that is a small user community. However, the immediate fix is

sudo rm /sw/etc/profile.d/ccp4.sh


Is there a way for fink to just do this automatically during a self-update or something?


Meanwhile, I just sent the following message to the fink users list:

Begin forwarded message:

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue Jan 7, 2003 8:58:35 PM US/Pacific
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: CCP4 OS X Users: I may have screwed up your fink installation -- here's the fix

Hi Folks:

I am afraid I may have corrupted your fink installation if you used my fink-based ccp4 install script. As usual, I was trying to be clever without the IQ to back it up.

Fortunately the fix trivial:

sudo rm /sw/etc/profile.d/ccp4.sh


This means you'll have to set things up the old fashioned way if you want to run ccp4 in bash user shell in OS X (why you would want to is beyond me, but ...).

Anyway, I am really sorry for any problems this may have created for anyone.

If you have been getting fink warnings of the form

Odd number of elements in hash assignment at /sw/lib/perl5/Fink/PkgVersion.pm line 1730.
Use of uninitialized value in list assignment at /sw/lib/perl5/Fink/PkgVersion.pm line 1730.


this is the source of the problem.


(This is almost as embarrassing as the time I flooded the third floor of the LMB with about 5" of water.)

Again, sorry.




William G. Scott

Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
and The Center for the Molecular Biology of RNA
Sinsheimer Laboratories
University of California at Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, California 95064
USA

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