--
Dave Reiser
dbrei...@icloud.com



> On Aug 7, 2015, at 5:30 PM, Alexander Hansen <alexanderk.han...@gmail.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Aug 7, 2015, at 13:21, David Reiser <dbrei...@icloud.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I’m trying to build the experimental glib2-shlibs. The info file is in:
>> 
>> /sw/fink/10.7/local/main/finkinfo/glib2-shlibs.info
>> 
>> The patch files are in the same directory, but trying to build glib2-shlibs 
>> ends with an error:
>> 
>> Failed: Cannot read PatchFile 
>> "/sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo/glib2-shlibs.patch”
>> 
>> Is this a bug, or did I do something odd? Fink is finding the local info 
>> file in the usual-for-prior-MacOS-versions, but it is not looking for the 
>> patch file in the same directory in which it found the info file.
>> 
> 
> Does your /sw/fink/dists actually point to 10.7 ?  Does 
> "/sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo/glib2-shlibs.patch” resolve?  What are 
> the ownership and permissions on it, if so? 

I did something not so much odd as intellectually deficient — I misspelled the 
file name of the patchfile. Oops.
> 
>> Despite running fink configure, I’m also usually getting messages that:
>> 
>> Couldn't change value of PrimaryGroupID in DirectoryServices entry 
>> /Groups/fink-bld.
>> 
>> During the fink configure run, it thought that it succeeded making fink-bld 
>> user 601
>> 
>> Dave
>> --
>> Dave Reiser
>> dbrei...@icloud.com
>> 
> 
> What do you get from “id fink-bld” ?  If you updated from a prior OS X rather 
> than doing a clean install, there has historically been an issue in which 
> Apple clobbers pre-existing users but not groups.

The setup is an update rather than clean install. id fink-bld gives:
 uid=601(fink-bld) gid=601 
groups=601,12(everyone),61(localaccounts),100(_lpoperator)
> 
> -- 
> Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
> Fink User Liaison
> 

It looks like I might be dead in the water for a bit now, though. atk1 bails 
pretty early by accumulating too many errors (and I wasn’t even trying to build 
that with -m). Many of those were about G_CONST_RETURN being an unknown type.

Thanks for the help.

Dave

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