I'm not totally sure of the "right" way to do it, actually - what I did was to put the two files in /sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo/ , and then fink found them and used them. I'm not certain whether I had to issue some special command to get them recognized there or not, though.
On Monday, June 3, 2002, at 01:52 AM, Ian Cabell wrote: > Hi, Ken, > > I saw your post about the fink files. Unfortunately, I'm a > fink newbie and have no clue how to use them! > > I assume I copy/paste the text into the appropriate files > (perl-5.6.1-1.info and perl-5.6.1-1.patch), but where do I put > these files? And how do I make use of them? > > Thanks for your help! > --Ian > >> On Sunday, May 26, 2002, at 01:43 AM, Steve Spicklemire wrote: >>> I've somehow broken my perl. It always crashes with a memory >>> exception in S_regmatch(). I don't know what library supplies >>> this function, or even if it's a problem with the library, or >>> a problem with some other perl component. Any ideas? Is there >>> a "perl-only" isntaller that would allow me to fix this >>> without having to reinstall the who shebang? Can I just >>> rebuild from source? >> >> If you've got fink installed, you might be interested in the >> fink files (patch & info) I posted to this list on May 12. >> They'll go through a complete perl build & install. >> >> Unfortunately they won't ever be distributed with fink proper, >> since they install things outside of /sw/ . -Ken >
