On Jun 14, 2008, at 6:00 PM, Jess H. Brewer wrote:

> James McKenzie wrote:
>
> <SNIP>
>
>>> I looked at the directory tree created by the script, and found that
>>> /sw/src/fink.build/cernlib2005-gfortran-2005-2012/2005/src/cernlib/ 
>>> patchy
>>> does not exist, but
>>> /sw/src/fink.build/cernlib2005-gfortran-2005-2012/2005/src/patchy
>>> does.  However, it has no 4.15 subdirectory, much less 4.15/bin,
>>> so I conclude that  #fink apropos patchy   is lying to me when it
>>> claims that patchy4-gfortran 4.15-2 is installed, or else it does
>>> not put its results where the cernlib build expects to find them.
>>> This is getting depressing.  I would really rather not clear out
>>> fink to make more room for Linux under Parallels, since (like all
>>> emulators) the latter has lousy keyboard and mouse handling, but
>>> that's starting to look like my only option.
>>>
>>> Cheers -- Jess
>>>
>>> PS: the whole install record (from where the trouble starts) is at
>>> http://musr.ca/~jess/misc/fink-cernlib-errors.txt
>>> if you want to peek; but I think the essential problem is above.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> One thing that you might want to look into is which cp you are  
>> using.  I
>> found, by accident, that the fileutils cp is broken on Leopard, but
>> works on Tiger.
>>
>> You will need to switch to the cp included in coreutils-default.
>>
>> James McKenzie
>
> Thanks, James, I installed coreutils-default and tried again.  No
> difference.  In desperation, I tried doing it "by hand":
> # cd /sw/src/fink.build/cernlib2005-gfortran-2005-2012/2005/src/
> # make   [This seemed to be successful!]
> Then I tracked down packlib.* etc. (no thanks to any messages
> offered by fink about where it was putting anything!) and tried
> building something with it.  That was when I started getting
> error messages related to pgplot.  I can't stand it any more
> right now; this is like the bad old days of Linux, when getting
> anything to work was a long, frustrating process.  -- Jess
>


"dpkg -L <packagename>" is the standard method to use to display what  
files were installed by <packagename>

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