This approach does work, but then the package doesn't get registered in your
package database automatically.  You could, however, install it, do the
mods, and then the manual install.

On 6/10/03 1:58 PM, "Jeffrey Sanders" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> If you just want to modify a program, and not want to do a tarball so you
> can poke around the code, I did this with gpsdrive by using fink commander.
> Fink commander has a preference to keep the build directory after
> installation.  The great thing about this was that it kept the source
> directory with all of the patches installed.  I copied the directory out the
> /sw/src directory and into my home directory, made my changes, then just did
> a .configure and make.  Everything worked as I had hoped.
> 
> 
> On 6/10/03 5:42 AM, "Alexander Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
>> If the value you want to change can be set as a parameter for the configure
>> script (e.g. "./configure --with-ssl"), then you can modify the .info file
>> accordingly, and "fink install" will work as usual
>> 
>> If you actually have to modify the source itself, life is trickier.  You'd
>> actually have to modify it, then repackage the archive into a tarball.
>> 
>> On 6/10/03 1:37 PM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> Hello all:
>>> 
>>> I have a package on my machine that has a default value compiled in.
>>> I would like to change the default value, which involves modifying one
>>> line of source code. How can I interrupt the installation process so
>>> that I can modify that line, and then restart it so it all compiles as
>>> smoothly as I've come to expect from Fink?
>>> 
>>> Many thanks,
>>> 
>>> -tom
>>> 
>>> ---------------------------------
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]        401-861-2831
>>> http://sgouros.com
>>> 
>>> 

-- 
Alexander K. Hansen
Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University
visiting MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center
Levitated Dipole Experiment
175 Albany Street, NW17-219
Cambridge, MA  02139-4213



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