RE: [Fink-users] Feedback for fink-0.24.9

[Kevin T. Broderick]

Title: RE: [Fink-users] Feedback for fink-0.24.9

I just did a complete reinstall of my system (replaced my PowerBook's hard drive due to a failure, and decided to do a clean install of Tiger and apps with only importing the user settings, rather than importing everything from the old install); after something like three days of recompiling, I've got the apps I want (xorg, ethereal, svn, gnucash, and kismet) installed and I didn't have to restart due to gettext / libgettext once.  I'd say that's a significant improvement.

(incidentally, anyone else considering something similar is advised to do a "fink self-update; fink update-all" *before* installing packages so as not to waste time compiling or installing out-of-date stuff)

Kevin Broderick / [EMAIL PROTECTED]



-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Clemence Magnien
Sent: Fri 8/19/2005 03:06
To: Alexander K. Hansen
Cc: Fink List Users
Subject: Re: [Fink-users] Feedback for fink-0.24.9

On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 10:24:35AM -0400, Alexander K. Hansen wrote:
>
> Please report your experiences (good and bad) with 0.24.9.  We'd like 
> to move this one over to stable as soon as possible.

Hi,

following this message I went and updated fink and ran 'fink update-all',
which I had not done for a looong time.
It claimed it needed to update or install 164 packages (and 43 additional
packages).
After a couple of hours the compilation stopped on the e-sound package
with the following error:

<snip beginning where all seemed to happen normally>
checking for sys/ioctl.h... yes
---------------------------------------------------------------------
--- Checking to see which audio header files your system uses.
--- Most of these checks should fail. Do not be alarmed.
checking soundcard.h usability... no
checking soundcard.h presence... no
checking for soundcard.h... no
checking sys/soundcard.h usability... no
checking sys/soundcard.h presence... no
checking for sys/soundcard.h... no
checking machine/soundcard.h usability... no
checking machine/soundcard.h presence... no
checking for machine/soundcard.h... no
checking sys/audio.h usability... no
checking sys/audio.h presence... no
checking for sys/audio.h... no
checking sys/audioio.h usability... no
checking sys/audioio.h presence... no
checking for sys/audioio.h... no
checking sys/audio.io.h usability... no
checking sys/audio.io.h presence... no
checking for sys/audio.io.h... no
checking sun/audioio.h usability... no
checking sun/audioio.h presence... no
checking for sun/audioio.h... no
checking dmedia/audio.h usability... no
checking dmedia/audio.h presence... no
checking for dmedia/audio.h... no
checking sys/soundlib.h usability... no
checking sys/soundlib.h presence... no
checking for sys/soundlib.h... no
checking sys/asoundlib.h usability... no
checking sys/asoundlib.h presence... no
checking for sys/asoundlib.h... no
checking alsa/asoundlib.h usability... no
checking alsa/asoundlib.h presence... no
checking for alsa/asoundlib.h... no
checking CoreAudio/CoreAudio.h usability... no
checking CoreAudio/CoreAudio.h presence... no
checking for CoreAudio/CoreAudio.h... no
checking mme/mme_api.h usability... no
checking mme/mme_api.h presence... no
checking for mme/mme_api.h... no
configure: error: Could not find a support sound driver
### execution of LD_TWOLEVEL_NAMESPACE=1 failed, exit code 1
Removing build lock...
/sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait -r fink-buildlock-esound-0.2.35-9
(Reading database ... 107083 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing fink-buildlock-esound-0.2.35-9 ...
Failed: phase compiling: esound-0.2.35-9 failed

I thought this was an esound problem and not a fink problem,
so I updated other packages myself. So far I have successfully
updated firefox and kdelibs3-ssl, and I just launched an update
of mozilla.

I will keep on installing packages not depending on e-sound by
hand, but in case you want a report on a complete run of fink update-all,
is there a way to go around the problem with e-sound?

I'm using mac os 10.3.9.
$ fink --version
Package manager version: 0.24.9
Distribution version: 0.7.2.rsync

Cheers,
Clemence

PS : I'd like to thank all the people working on fink for their
great job. Without fink, I'd be running a DELL laptop under linux
and would still be trying to figure out how to configure my soundcard,
and life would not be quite as easy as it is now.




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