Jack Howarth wrote: > On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 09:39:35AM -0400, Alexander Hansen wrote: > >> Jack Howarth wrote: >> >>> Alexander, >>> No one other than you has reported this so I strongly suspect >>> you have localized breakage. I would still ask you to try... >>> >>> 1) pruning your .chsrc and .bashrc to just sourcing fink's init script >>> >>> >> I don't do anything special in my startup file. >> >>> 2) moving aside /sw, reinstalling current fink and then 'fink install >>> octave' >>> >>> >> I get the same results if I download the .deb file from Todai. I'll tr >> >>> 3) resorting to an Archive and Install of Mac OS X and then Xcode 3.1.2 >>> to purge you system. >>> >>> It is unlikely to be worth the effort to chase this down if it is a one >>> time situation that can be cured with the above. >>> Jack >>> >>> >>> >> If this were my primary machine, I'd be quite angry at the dismissive >> suggestion above. >> However, since everything seems to work on my now-primary box, someone >> should feel free to make up powerpc-only .info files of all of my >> gfortran-using packages and take them over, since I can't test them at >> this point. >> > > Andrew, > You need to be rational about this. You have a box on which debs for > gcc43 which previously work no longer do. This is a huge red flag that > you have some sort of corruption on your box. I do Archive and Install > all of Mac OS X all the time. That would be my first thing to attempt. > I'm sorry but I not going to invest a huge amount of time before you > verify that you don't have some localized file damage to your build > system there. Nothing I can do from here would identify or fix that. > If I had any other data points, I might have a different view but > even you said your other machine builds fine. I can post on fink-devel > and fink-user and ask everyone to try building octave on ppc to > see if we can trigger another failure. > Jack > ps If you find reinstalling Mac OS X and/or Xcode fixes the problem > you really should try running something like TechTool Deluxe that > will check for bad blocks on that machine's drive. > > >> -- >> Alexander Hansen >> Fink User Liaison >> I'm not Andrew.
I have been using OSX since the 10.0 prereleases, and Fink for most of the project's existence. I'm well aware of the potential for filesystem corruption, having experienced weird build failure due to that, and I haven't ruled that out. I wasn't really asking for any investment of your time. I was providing a data point in case others might have been experiencing the same issue. I'm leaving the option of demaintaining those packages out there, though, in case a clean system install (and I'm not even going to bother with Archive and Install; I've got a backup so I'll just wipe the drive) gives me the same problem. -- Alexander Hansen Fink User Liaison ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: High Quality Requirements in a Collaborative Environment. Download a free trial of Rational Requirements Composer Now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-ibm-com _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
