On Aug 22, 2008, at 2:38 PM, Robert Varner wrote:

> On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:20:12 -0400
> Alexander Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Aug 22, 2008, at 11:05 AM, Robert Varner wrote:
>>
>>>>
>>>> Message: 8
>>>> Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:18:03 -0400
>>>> From: Daniel Macks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>> Subject: Re: [Fink-users] Failure to install plplot-5.8.0
>>>> To: fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net
>>>> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 03:43:56PM -0400, Robert Varner wrote:
>>>>> The package plplot-58-1010 fails to install during a source
>>>>> build.  The
>>>>> error is below.  The target machine is OS X 10.5.4 on Intel.  Does
>>>>> anyone have an idea how I might work around this?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ==================Small excerpt from the build
>>>>> log==================================
>>>>> usr/sbin/chown -R root:admin /sw/src/fink.build/root-plplot-
>>>>> dev-5.8.0-1010
>>>>> Use of uninitialized value in list assignment at /sw/lib/perl5/
>>>>> Fink/PkgVersion.pm line 4963, <STDIN> line 1.
>>>>> mkdir -p /sw/src/fink.build/root-plplot-dev-5.8.0-1010/sw/share/
>>>>> doc; ln -s plplot-shlibs /sw/src/fink.build/root-plplot-
>>>>> dev-5.8.0-1010/sw/share/doc/plplot-dev
>>>>> Use of uninitialized value in list assignment at /sw/lib/perl5/
>>>>> Fink/PkgVersion.pm line 4963, <STDIN> line 1.
>>>>> /usr/bin/install -d -m 755 /sw/src/fink.build/root-plplot-
>>>>> dev-5.8.0-1010/sw/bin
>>>>> /bin/mv /sw/src/fink.build/root-plplot-5.8.0-1010/sw/bin/plplot-
>>>>> config /sw/src/fink.build/root-plplot-dev-5.8.0-1010/sw/bin/
>>>>> /bin/mv /sw/src/fink.build/root-plplot-5.8.0-1010/sw/bin/
>>>>> plplot_libtool /sw/src/fink.build/root-plplot-dev-5.8.0-1010/sw/ 
>>>>> bin/
>>>>> /usr/bin/install -d -m 755 /sw/src/fink.build/root-plplot-
>>>>> dev-5.8.0-1010/sw
>>>>> /bin/mv /sw/src/fink.build/root-plplot-5.8.0-1010/sw/include /sw/
>>>>> src/fink.build/root-plplot-dev-5.8.0-1010/sw/
>>>>> /usr/bin/install -d -m 755 /sw/src/fink.build/root-plplot-
>>>>> dev-5.8.0-1010/sw/lib
>>>>> /bin/mv /sw/src/fink.build/root-plplot-5.8.0-1010/sw/lib/*.
>>>>> {a,la,dylib} /sw/src/fink.build/root-plplot-dev-5.8.0-1010/sw/lib/
>>>>> /usr/bin/install -d -m 755 /sw/src/fink.build/root-plplot-
>>>>> dev-5.8.0-1010/sw/lib/python2.5/site-packages
>>>>> /bin/mv /sw/src/fink.build/root-plplot-5.8.0-1010/sw/lib/ 
>>>>> python2.5/
>>>>> site-packages/*.{a,la} /sw/src/fink.build/root-plplot-
>>>>> dev-5.8.0-1010/sw/lib/python2.5/site-packages/
>>>>> mv: rename /sw/src/fink.build/root-plplot-5.8.0-1010/sw/lib/
>>>>> python2.5/site-packages/*.a to /sw/src/fink.build/root-plplot-
>>>>> dev-5.8.0-1010/sw/lib/python2.5/site-packages/*.a: No such file or
>>>>> directory
>>>>> mv: rename /sw/src/fink.build/root-plplot-5.8.0-1010/sw/lib/
>>>>> python2.5/site-packages/*.la to /sw/src/fink.build/root-plplot-
>>>>> dev-5.8.0-1010/sw/lib/python2.5/site-packages/*.la: No such file
>>>>> or directory
>>>>> ### execution of /bin/mv failed, exit code 1
>>>>
>>>> I can see a couple of things that might lead to this failure. Could
>>>> you check a couple of things:
>>>>
>>>> 1. 'fink list -it python'
>>>>
>>>> 2. 'fink list -l /sw/bin/python*'
>>>>
>>>> 3. 'ls /sw/src/fink.build/root-plplot-5.8.0-1010/sw/lib'
>>>>
>>>> dan
>>>>
>>>> -- 
>>>> Daniel Macks
>>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>> http://www.netspace.org/~dmacks
>>>
>>> Here are the results:
>>>
>>> (1)
>>> [rlvmbp:~] varner% fink list -it python
>>> Information about 6754 packages read in 1 seconds.
>>> i      gnome-python2-py25      2.20.1-2        Python bindings for
>>> GNOME2
>>> i      gnome-python2-py25-dev  2.20.1-2        Python bindings for
>>> GNOME2
>>> i      python25        1:2.5.2-1       Interpreted, object-oriented
>>> language
>>> i      python25-shlibs 1:2.5.2-1       Interpreted, object-oriented
>>> language
>>>
>>> (2) I presume you meant "ls" rather than "fink list"
>>> [rlvmbp:~] varner% ls -l /sw/bin/python*
>>> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  admin  1567340 Jul 24 17:42 /sw/bin/python2.5*
>>> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  admin     1417 Jul 24 17:43 /sw/bin/python2.5-
>>> config*
>>>
>>> (3)
>>> [rlvmbp:~] varner% ls /sw/src/fink.build/root-plplot-5.8.0-1010/sw/ 
>>> lib
>>> fortran/        octave/         pkgconfig/      plplot5.8.0/
>>>
>>>
>>> thanks,
>>>
>>> Robert
>>>
>>
>> Aha!  Based on this result I tried rebuilding plplot without the fink
>> "python" package installed.  That failed.  But when I installed
>> "python" it worked.  That appears to be an appropriate workaround at
>> any rate, pending the fix.
>
> Yes, this fixes the problem exactly.  I do not know how I ended up  
> with
> only a partial python install, but reinstalling added
> the /sw/bin/python link that allowed configure to work.  Thank you!
>
>
>

There wasn't an explicit dependency, so nothing was forcing "python"  
and its symlink to be installed.

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