[Fink-users] [OT] Darwin's Finks under threat

2002-11-19 Thread Dylan Foley
Hi all,

I know it's off topic but I thought some of Fink's users and developers 
might be interested in this story.

Some of the world's most iconic birds are facing a new and grave threat 
to their existence. Many of the so-called Darwin finch species on the 
Galapagos Islands are being attacked by the larvae of parasitic flies 
and scientists are deeply concerned for the birds' long-term welfare.

The flies were accidentally introduced to the islands, off Ecuador, and 
it is not known whether the finches will be able to cope with their 
arrival. .

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2415261.stm

http://ens-news.com/ens/nov2002/2002-11-11-04.asp

http://www.birdlife.net/news/pritem_display.cfm?NewRecID=709NewType=P

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dylan
p.s. I'm having trouble getting the T-shirt to compile. Any hints? 
Hmm... maybe I should move my laundry out of the way.



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Re: [Fink-users] unable to update to fink 11.0

2002-11-16 Thread Dylan Foley

On Saturday, November 16, 2002, at 06:44 AM, Artemio Gonzalez-Lopez 
wrote:

I am using perl 5.8, not the perl that comes with 10.2, though the 
problem
persists when I go back to the system's perl. Go figure!

When switching to Perl 5.8, did you follow the procedure outlined in 
this message:

http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg02447.html

  quote  
The release notes for perl 5.8.0 indicate: Perl 5.8 is not binary 
compatible with any earlier Perl release, XS MODULES WILL HAVE TO BE 
RECOMPILED!

Mac OS X users that have fink installed may experience the
following error when executing certain perl operationssnip

/snipRESOLUTION:

The following three commands will correct the above issue by removing
the current Storable and replacing it with a recompiled version. These
commands must be executed as the superuser. After these commands are
executed the aforementioned issue will be resolved.

mv /sw/lib/perl5/darwin/Storable.pm /tmp
mv /sw/lib/perl5/darwin/auto/Storable /tmp
fink rebuild storable-pm

It IS first necessary to do the mv's, before the rebuild, since fink is
a perl script that explicitly adds /sw/lib/perl5 to @INC, and exhibits
the behavior mentioned above.

You will need to execute the above commands for every XS module that
is contained within /sw/lib/perl5.

  quote  

Please read the entire message. Worked for me.
OS X 10.1.5
Perl 5.8
Fink package manager version: 0.10.0
Fink distribution version: 0.4.1.cvs

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Re: [Fink-users] selfupdate problem

2002-11-16 Thread Dylan Foley

On Saturday, November 16, 2002, at 01:46 PM, Alexander Meier wrote:


hi,

please have a look at the following problem... I've had this problem 
before - but forgot how I solved it then!


maybe this will help you remember

http://www.mail-archive.com/fink-
[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg00288.html

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[Fink-users] Darwin 6.01 and Fink - just wondering

2002-09-28 Thread dylan foley

Hello fink-users, develepors, maintainers et al,

So my dear little iBook had to be sent off for repairs(nothing to do with Fink), 
and I'm left daydreaming about what I'll be doing when it returns.

One thing I've been wondering about is this: with the open source release of 
Darwin 6.01(the version under OS 10.2/Jaguar) would it be possible to install 
the newer Darwin(perhaps on it's own partition) on my OS 10.1.5 iBook and 
be able to use it in conjunction with the Jaguar-ready Fink packages?

I realize that without the latest Dev Tools(which are not available for my 
current OS) I may not be able to compile the source, but perhaps as things 
develop and binary packages become available through dselect, maybe I 
would be able to download the binary packages and move them over to the 
Darwin 6 partition.

Or am I missing something? Am I tied to upgrading Mac OS in order to 
upgrade Darwin and Fink packages? Is OS X a necessary ingredient?

Just wondering... thoughts anyone?

Being a bear of rather little brain, and still quite new to this whole UNIX / 
Darwin / Mac OS X realm, I'm quite capable of thinking up the most idiotic 
things. Please excuse if this was one of them. The whole question is 
hypothetical and is solely meant to hasten the dissipation of your precious 
weekend time : )

p.s. to the developers: Fink has not merely changed the way I use my 
computer, Fink has changed the way I think. Thanks !

(whether this change has been an improvement is still subject to verification. 
patents pending.)

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email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
website: http://www3.sympatico.ca/dylanfoley/



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Re: [Fink-users] xfree86 unstable broke my KDE :(

2002-08-12 Thread Dylan Foley

I downloaded the latest(version 4.2.0-11, Mon Aug 12) xfree86-base and 
-rootless and KDE is working again, thanks!!! The build and install took 
about 90 minutes on my iBook(G3 700 256Mb RAM) - no problems. Gnome is 
running fine as well.

However, I'm now experiencing another, less drastic problem. It seems 
that the mosfet-liquid package is no longer working. I get a lot of 
messages like the following in my kde start up log:

QSettings::sync: filename is null/empty
Conflict in /sw/lib/kde3/plugins//styles/liquid.so:
  Plugin cannot be queried successfully!

Is this related to having installed the new xfree86? Any suggestions? 
Thanks again.

- dylan





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[Fink-users] xfree86 unstable broke my KDE :(

2002-08-11 Thread Dylan Foley

I checked out the latest xfree86-base and xfree86-rootless from the 
unstable branch. They compiled fine - no problems there.

But when I started XDarwin my KDE strartup failed with the message:

'Couldn't start ksmserver. Check your instalation.'

Here's what I found in my KDE start up log:

dyld: ksplashml Undefined symbols:
/sw/lib/libkdeui.4.dylib undefined reference to _XShmAttach expected to 
be defined in /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.6.dylib
/sw/lib/libkdeui.4.dylib undefined reference to _XShmCreateImage 
expected to be defined in /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.6.dylib
/sw/lib/libkdeui.4.dylib undefined reference to _XShmDetach expected to 
be defined in /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.6.dylib
/sw/lib/libkdeui.4.dylib undefined reference to _XShmGetImage expected 
to be defined in /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.6.dylib
/sw/lib/libkdeui.4.dylib undefined reference to _XShmPutImage expected 
to be defined in /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.6.dylib
/sw/lib/libkdeui.4.dylib undefined reference to _XShmQueryExtension 
expected to be defined in /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.6.dylib
kdeinit: Launched DCOPServer, pid = 20106 result = 0
_KDE_IceTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.ICE-unix should be set to root
DCOP: register 'anonymous-20106' - number of clients is now 1
DCOPServer up and running.
DCOP: unregister 'anonymous-20106'
Could not find start_launcher: dlcompat: dyld: kdeinit Undefined symbols:
/sw/lib/libkdeui.4.dylib undefined reference to _XShmAttach expected to 
be defined in /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.6.dylib
/sw/lib/libkdeui.4.dylib undefined reference to _XShmCreateImage 
expected to be defined in /usr
kdeinit: Launched KLauncher, pid = 20110 result = 1
Could not find main: dlcompat: dyld: kdeinit Undefined symbols:
/sw/lib/libkdeui.4.dylib undefined reference to _XShmAttach expected to 
be defined in /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.6.dylib
/sw/lib/libkdeui.4.dylib undefined reference to _XShmCreateImage 
expected to be defined in /usr
kdeinit: Launched KDED, pid = 20111 result = 3
kdeinit: Communication error with launcher. Exiting!
Warning: connect() failed: : Connection refused
dyld: ksmserver Undefined symbols:
/sw/lib/libkdeui.4.dylib undefined reference to _XShmAttach expected to 
be defined in /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.6.dylib
/sw/lib/libkdeui.4.dylib undefined reference to _XShmCreateImage 
expected to be defined in /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.6.dylib
/sw/lib/libkdeui.4.dylib undefined reference to _XShmDetach expected to 
be defined in /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.6.dylib
/sw/lib/libkdeui.4.dylib undefined reference to _XShmGetImage expected 
to be defined in /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.6.dylib
/sw/lib/libkdeui.4.dylib undefined reference to _XShmPutImage expected 
to be defined in /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.6.dylib
/sw/lib/libkdeui.4.dylib undefined reference to _XShmQueryExtension 
expected to be defined in /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.6.dylib
Warning: connect() failed: : Connection refused
Error: Can't contact kdeinit!

Any tips on how to proceed in fixing things would be appreciated.

- dylan foley



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