Hi, I have a specific problem and general question about such problems. My specific problem: I "fink install gnome-libs and get breakage linking one of the target objects:
/usr/bin/ld: Undefined symbols: ___db185_open make[2]: *** [gnome-dump-metadata] Error 1 make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2 ### make failed, exit code 2 Failed: compiling gnome-libs-1.4.1.4-3 failed Now I know this _not_ to be a problem with my db package, I've installed/reinstalled that like five times manually and now with the fink package to get it working. Right now I can see what the problem is, there's no -ldb on the command line: cc -O3 -Wall -Wunused -L/sw/lib -o .libs/gnome-dump-metadata -L/sw/lib -lglib gnome-dump.o -L.libs -lgnome -lglib -lm -lz -lm -L../support/.libs -lgnomesupport -lz -lm -L/sw/lib -lesd -laudiofile -lm -L/sw/lib -laudiofile -lm -L/sw/lib -lglib -lintl -lz -lm Though I am not an automake expert, it looks like there must be an error in the Makefile.am in that directory. So my specific question, obviously: what can I do to get the package installed? My general question is regarding that for whatever reason, package breakage seems to be a common occurrence on my machine, and often I can see what the problem is. So generally speaking, what can I do to fix these things, short of learning how to assemble a package, editing the .patch and or .info, and rerunning the installer? If I am able to just edit the files in place and complete the build manually, is there a way tell the packager to resume? What easy way is there to get a patch without deleting all the temporary targets (or do I just copy the tree, make clean and go with that? What about deleting all the autoconf-produced files and etc?) Once I have a patch, should I lie to my system and overwrite an old .patch file in the fink directories, or should I make up a new version number? How? Jeff Henrikson ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek PC Mods, Computing goodies, cases & more http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
