On Feb 13, 2004, at 4:46 PM, Ihar 'Philips' Filipau wrote:
<AKH> system-xfree86 is now a virtual package, which is supposed to show up automatically if X11 is installed correctly. It appears that the installer sometimes leaves out files. There's a FAQ on this: http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/usage-packages.php#apple-x11-wants- xfree86
So I cannot install freeciv: it requires imlib, which requires giflib, which requires X11 - but does not accept X11 from Apple I already have installed.
In order to help Alex in his heroic efforts to stop this flood of complaints more or less single-handedly, I wrote a perl script "fink-x11-debug". While it cannot replace the FAQ#8.11 and will probably not directly be of help to a newbie, it should facilitate the diagnosis of what is the situation with a user's X11 installation.
Note that there were several cases now where people swore that they did everything in the FAQ and reinstalled the Apple X11 pkgs several times, and there is still no 'x11' virtual package showing up.
fink-x11-debug performs the same checks on the X11 installation as the fink virtual package system, but it tells what it is finding. It gives also some other useful information about a user's fink and x11 installation. Please give it a try (and send ideas for improvement or report bugs to me).
The output may directly show faulty installations, or it gives a list of informations that can serve for debugging the situation.
The script (6kB) is in my exp directory on cvs, and it is also available here: http://perso.wanadoo.fr/costabel/fink-x11-debug
To use it, save it anywhere and - either make it executable and run it as "./fink-x11-debug" - or run it as "perl fink-x11-debug"
Something like this should probably go into the fink package or it could even be merged with the fink-virtual-pkgs script, maybe activated by "fink-virtual-pkgs --debug-x11" or something similar.
-- Martin
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