On 1/18/13 8:49 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote:
> On 1/18/13 3:59 AM, Peter Dyballa wrote:
>>
>> Am 18.01.2013 um 06:27 schrieb Sean Lake:
>>
>>> I have to abort the build of dbus at this line:
>>>
>>> checking if gcj PIC flag -fno-common works...
>>>
>>> because it just pegs the CPU and fills the RAM for many hours without 
>>> advancing.
>>
>> The problem with gcj on PowerPC is well-known! I think it started with GCC 
>> 4.5, continued in GCC 4.6 and might still be unsolved in GCC 4.7. But the 
>> package you are trying to build should not be touched by this problem since 
>> you should be building the package with /usr/bin/gcc-4.2, /usr/bin/g++-4.2, 
>> and /usr/bin/cpp-4.2, and GCC 4.2 does not provide gcj. Nonetheless the 
>> configure script seems to find a gcj: /sw/bin/gcj, a sym-link to whatever 
>> GCC 4.[5-8] compiler you have installed with Fink…
>>
> 
> The configure script is looking for the first "gcj" in the PATH.  It
> isn't set up to look for gcj only in a directory occupied by the C or
> C++ compilers (nor do _these_ have to be in a common directory.)
> 
>> First perform:
>>
>>      dpkg -S /sw/bin/gcj
>>
>> This might return something like
>>
>>      gcc47: /sw/bin/gcj
>>
>> Now remove ('fink remove <package name>') the package given as the first 
>> argument, or manually just rename /sw/bin/gcj to something like 
>> /sw/bin/dammed-gcj ('sudo mv /sw/bin/gcj /sw/bin/dammed-gcj') – and don't 
>> forget to rename it back after success with dbus ('sudo mv 
>> /sw/bin/dammed-gcj /sw/bin/gcj')!
>>
>> --
>> Greetings
>>
>>  Pete
>>
>> They're putting dimes in the hole in my head to see the change in me.
>>
>>
> 
> In the future, please specify the Fink name of the package that is
> failing (as per the error messages when the build is stopped) rather
> than its generic name.  I wasted time testing "dbus" for this issue,
> when the problem was in "dbus-shlibs":
> 
>  i   dbus             1.4.18-2     Message bus system for applications
> ...
> (i)  dbus-shlibs      1.2.16-103   Message bus system for applications
> 
> The package has been updated now to avoid this issue.
> 

oops, totally missed seeing the subject. :-(

-- 
Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
Fink User Liaison
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