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! > > >
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