Maybe I've got the wrong end of this, but I might have found a problem with the fix-fink package. I just ran Evolution (a program I haven't used for quite a while), and it gave me lots of warnings about the program being compiled with libpng1.0.12 but being executed with libpng1.2.5. In the past, I got around this by downgrading libpng - but since I ran fix-fink this morning, I thought this would have identified Evolution as one in need of recompiling - but it didn't. I didn't think of it before, but it seems to me that fix-fink 'missed it'. Now ... I might be wrong about all this because I am only an enthusiastic beginner - but I thought I'd mention it anyway. I'm currently rebuilding evolution so hopefully it'll work OK after that. Other programs that I used that didn't previously work (Gnome games for eg) are good now.
Cheers, David.
On Tuesday, March 18, 2003, at 01:23 AM, David R. Morrison wrote:
I have updated the "fix-fink" program to help people update their libpng
libraries to libpng3 and hopefully cure the libpng/libpng3 woes. You can
find fix-fink-2.0-1 in the unstable tree at the moment. If you use it,
please let me know so that I can move it to the stable tree after getting
some feedback.
Here's what it does: it examines all of your libraries and executables to
see if they link to libpng.2.dylib, and if they do, it tells you to rebuild
the corresponding fink packages. This only makes sense, by the way, if you
have run "fink selfupdate-cvs" on March 10 or later (to make sure that the
"libpng -> libpng3" updates are present on your system).
At the same time, I updated the older part of fix-fink so that it should no
longer report "false positives" on the test that it runs.
One warning: if you have KDE installed, then fix-fink is going to want
to rebuild your KDE packages, updating them to the new KDE 3.1 packages.
This could take a day or more of compiling, so you might want to time
your execution of fix-fink appropriately.
There is one situation in which fix-fink is slightly tricky to use. If you
have at some point in the past installed some packages from the unstable
tree, but are currently using the stable tree, fink might get confused
by the instruction to rebuild the packages. In this case, you can
temporarily turn on the unstable tree, run fix-fink, and then revert
to the stable tree after everything has been rebuilt.
-- Dave
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