On mardi, sep 17, 2002, at 10:01 Europe/Paris, Ashley Yakeley wrote: > Thanks, it works. Now I discover xfree86-base-threaded won't install: > mv: rename > /usr/local/finksw/src/root-xfree86-base-threaded-4.2.0.1-2/usr/local/ > finksw > /../Applications to > /usr/local/finksw/src/root-xfree86-rootless-threaded-4.2.0.1-2/usr/ > local/fi > nksw/..//Applications: No such file or directory > ### execution of mv failed, exit code 1 > Failed: installing xfree86-rootless-threaded-4.2.0.1-2 failed > > I take it this is because xfree86-base-threaded makes the assumption > that > the fink directory is "/sw"... whereas I set it to /usr/local/finksw
It makes the assumption that the root directory "/Applications" has the relative path "../Applications" as seen from your fink directory, i.e. that your fink directory is one level below "/". This is a bug that has been known for a couple of weeks. Its fix is known, too, namely to use absolute path names in this situation. The version of fink that understands this is in cvs, you are probably using it. Until the package gets fixed, you can trick fink into thinking it is using /sw: Make /sw a symlink to /usr/local/finksw and put /sw as BasePath into your /sw/etc/fink.conf BTW, besides the xfree86 fink packages, also xfree86 itself makes unwarranted assumptions about the tree structure on your machine: It thinks that /usr/X11R6 is really there and not a symlink to someplace else. In /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/ there are a lot of symlinks of the form app-defaults -> ../../../../usr/X11R6/etc/app-defaults that point into empty space if you are more than 4 levels below "/". I don't understand why they dont use the simpler and more reliable ../../etc/app-defaults -- Martin ------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: AMD - Your access to the experts on Hammer Technology! Open Source & Linux Developers, register now for the AMD Developer Symposium. Code: EX8664 http://www.developwithamd.com/developerlab _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
