D. Höhn wrote:
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Is this correct?
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Hi,
read and followed your quick start to download and install fink.
Got an errormessage
/usr/sbin/nm not found!
Maybe you should mention that in the quick start doc.
- ->first install developer tools for mac, then install fink!
Is it essential for fink to run?
It should not. The problem with /usr/sbin/nm comes from an X11 version check in the *old* fink-0.16 that comes with the binary installer. It is no longer necessary in more recent versions of fink. The quick start doc should say that after installing Fink via the installer, you should update *immediately* before doing anything else. "Update" here means "apt-get update; apt-get install fink" or the corresponding choice in FinkCommander, not "fink update", which will crash if the dev tools are not installed.
The quick start doc should also mention that the X11 SDK should also be installed in order to compile X11 apps against the Apple's X11 (if not, Fink proposes to replace your Apple's X11 with all the XFree86 stuff).
If you want to stay with the bindist, the dev tools and the X11DSK should *not* be necessary. I still believe that this is possible, although I had bad experiences when trying this myself.
I think someone should *really* try this seriously: Remove the dev tools, or at least the nm, make, and [g]cc executables and /usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xlib.h, and then install a fresh copy of Fink from the binary installer. Try to find a way to get this updated so that the binary installation of the packages in 10.3/current is possible (Try to install the binary version of texmacs, for example).
Then correct the quickstart doc so that it corresponds to your experience. (I am hiding immediately, I don't have the time for this now or in the next 10 days).
-- Martin
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