On Jul 20, 2004, at 11:17 PM, John Delacour wrote:
At 9:42 pm -0700 20/7/04, Chris Nandor wrote:
On what OS (I figures it is Mac OS X, but just checking)?
How do I discover that? :-)
As to VERSION, again, maybe there's clues in your setup. There's no reason I can see for it to be failing like that, and no one else has reported such a problem, that I can recall.
Could it be that the stuff Fink installed (5.8.4 think) has messed something up? I had no option but to allow that installation when I tried to get lilypond working, but I see I'm still running 5.8.3 in fact.
My personal experiences with fink have not been good.
The dependancy handling is not very consistent. (It has problems remembering previous packages that it installed or figuring out what the working environment is at install time.) It caused all sorts of problems building anything outside of fink. (Not to mention insisting on rebuilding packages that already existed on the system, like X.)
I have no experience with lilypond, so I don't know why it would need fink.
The only way I have found the way to fix the problems in fink is "rm -rf /sw". ("fix" as in "veterinarian".)
If you are having problems with a dependent cpan module, figure out which module it is, download it and try compiling it separately. i have found that CPAN does not always deal with required, but non-standard C libraries. The error messages will usually tell you what is missing. (It may be that fink has installed some version that is not compatible with the test code.)
