On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 09:29:29AM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote:
> 
> XFree86 (I installed it via fink, and haven't seen a reason until now to
> even consider going to the Apple x server) won't even start up.  I get the
> same errors as above, with the addition of:
> 
> Jul 30 09:38:10 may /usr/libexec/fix_prebinding:
>              /Applications/XDarwin.app/Contents/MacOS/XDarwin could not be
>              launched prebound.
> Jul 30 09:38:10 may /usr/libexec/fix_prebinding:
>              /Applications/XDarwin.app/Contents/MacOS/XDarwin couldn't be
>              prebound in the past, and probably can't be prebound now.
> Jul 30 09:38:10 may /usr/libexec/fix_prebinding: 2003-07-30 09:38:10 -0400:
>               prebinding for XDarwin done.
> 
> (I reformatted the listing because pine's folding of long lines made it
> nearly unreadable otherwise).

These are harmless.

> 
> Whatever line's the actual fatal error, X won't even start up now.  I'm
> unhappily considering redoing the entire fink installation.

Well, that would probably fix it, but only if you made sure to blast
your X11 directories, too.  IMHO, it would be much easier to just
rebuild or remove X11 (or even go with a binary version.)

> 
> IF I have to re-install fink:
> 
> 1) D'you know, is there any simple way to extract the list of installed
>    packages from fink?

fink list | grep '^ i'

> 2) My config probably still reads 10.2, I notice that there's a 10.3,
>    should I have 10.3 in my config instead of 10.2?

Not unless you have Panther installed, and even then I think that's just
preliminary stuff for the developers.

> 3) What is the correct thing for me to do about having the 3.3 compiler?
>    Is there perhaps some way to simply take out that part (like maybe to
>    go fetch the original developer tools from December and reinstall
>    them, would that work?)

>From the Fink front page:
Quick Summary: DO NOT INSTALL THIS UPDATE.
...
you should be careful to run sudo gcc_select 3 prior to any "fink build"
or "fink install" commands.

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