It appears I am locked. What Xcode number is suggested for Lion (10.7)?
Is it worth to move directly to Mountain Lion (probably soon also obsolete)
and to rebuild fink stuff from the scratch?
FF
Dr Felix Frolow
Professor of Structural Biology and Biotechnology, Department of Molecular
Microbiology and Biotechnology
Tel Aviv University 69978, Israel
Acta Crystallographica F, co-editor
e-mail: [email protected]
Tel: ++972-3640-8723
Fax: ++972-3640-9407
Cellular: 0547 459 608
On Oct 9, 2012, at 19:03 , Alexander Hansen wrote:
> On 10/9/12 9:29 AM, Felix Frolow wrote:
>> Due to necessity I have only Xcode 4.1 installed.
>> On some stage during upgrade of some packages FINK was trying to instill
>> gcc47 stuff. It failed due to missing dependency.
>> I was attempting to delete stuff related to gcc47 and was asked to delete
>> some packages I use for my scientific work.
>
> Typically packages that use a gcc4N to build link to its libraries, so
> if you removed gcc47-shlibs then those had to be removed.
>
>> But I still can' get read of "Can't resolve dependency "xcode (>= 4.5)" for
>> package "gcc47-4.7.2-1000" (no matching packages/versions found)
>> Exiting with failure."
>
> Right, because that is in the _gcc47_ package description. Removing
> other stuff isn't going to change that, nor change any dependency upon it.
>
>> I have still gcc4.2 installed. How can I use it again? Can I use it.
>
> Not without doing a _lot_ of local modifications. As I said above, most
> packages that use gcc47 link to it, so you would need to change their
> package descriptions and rebuild them.
> Also, gcc4.2 represents /usr/bin/gcc4.2 from Apple, only, and any
> packages that use fortran require a gcc4N from Fink.
>
> Why fink apropos gcc return so many gcc's:
>> avr-gcc 4.5.3-1 GNU GCC for ATMEL AVR micro
>> controllers
>> avr-libc 1.7.1-2 AVR LIBC for GNU GCC & GNU
>> binutils
>> broken-gcc 3.3-1 [virtual package
>> representing a broken gcc compiler]
>> dragonegg-gcc45 3.1-1 Using LLVM as a GCC backend
>> dragonegg-gcc46 3.1-1 Using LLVM as a GCC backend
>> dragonegg-gcc47 3.1-1 Using LLVM as a GCC backend
>> i gcc4.2 4.2.1-5666 [virtual package
>> representing the gcc 4.2.1 compiler]
>> gcc46 4.6.3-1000 GNU Compiler Collection
>> Version 4.6
>> gcc46-compiler 4.6.3-1000 Compiler Binaries for
>> gcc46.
>> i gcc46-shlibs 4.6.3-1000 Shared libraries for gcc4
>> gcc47 4.7.2-1000 GNU Compiler Collection
>> Version 4.7
>> gcc47-compiler 4.7.2-1000 Compiler Binaries for
>> gcc47.
>> gcc47-shlibs 4.7.2-1000 Shared libraries for gcc4
>> i llvm-gcc 4.2.1-2335.15.00 [virtual package
>> representing Apple's LLVM compiler]
>> m681x-gcc 3.3.6-3 For Motorola 68hc11/12
>> micro controllers
>> msp430-gcc 4.6.3-20120406-1 GNU GCC for for Texas
>> Instruments MSP430 MCU
>>
>
> "fink apropos gcc" matches 'gcc' in both the package names and descriptions.
>
>> FF
>> Dr Felix Frolow
>> Professor of Structural Biology and Biotechnology, Department of Molecular
>> Microbiology and Biotechnology
>> Tel Aviv University 69978, Israel
>>
>> Acta Crystallographica F, co-editor
>>
>> e-mail: [email protected]
>> Tel: ++972-3640-8723
>> Fax: ++972-3640-9407
>> Cellular: 0547 459 608
>>
>>
>
> As a workaround, do the following:
>
> 1)
>
> mkdir -p /sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo
> cp /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/finkinfo/languages/gcc47.*
> /sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo
>
> 2) Edit /sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo/gcc47.info and make the
> following changes:
>
> 1) Remove xcode (>= 4.5) from the BuildDepends
> 2) Increase the Revision to, say, 2000
> 3) Verify that fink sees this gcc47 by using "fink dumpinfo -finfofile
> gcc47"
> 4) If so, then when you install anything that uses gcc47, fink will use
> your local modification.
>
> There are two caveats:
>
> 1) I can't guarantee whether the gcc47 package is fully functional when
> built with Xcode 4.1.
> 2) If the maintainer releases a newer gcc-4.7.x, your local modification
> will have to be updated accordingly.
> --
> Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
> Fink User Liaison
> My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com/
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