use of fink

2007-05-19 Thread Tom Allison

I'm trying to use fink to install a file that is marked as 'unstable'.
But I can't seem to get fink to find it.

I changed the file links from stable to unstable and ... nothing.


Re: use of fink

2007-05-19 Thread Tom Allison


On May 19, 2007, at 8:57 AM, Tom Allison wrote:


I'm trying to use fink to install a file that is marked as 'unstable'.
But I can't seem to get fink to find it.

I changed the file links from stable to unstable and ... nothing.



Sorry, I should have added that I already tried everything in the FAQ  
and still nothing.

Are the mirrors out of date?


installation of DBD::Pg

2007-05-01 Thread Tom Allison

I got a MacBook two days ago.
My wife has had one for a year and it looked like a good thing.

I've been doing all this perl stuff on Debian  Solaris for almost a  
decade.
But I'm not familiar with how it's supposed to be done under Mac, so  
I'm rather stuck.


Objective: install postgresql client software and drivers necessary  
to access remote postgresql databases.  A local database is not  
required since sqllite3 is present and should suffice for development  
work.  My expectation is that I can log in to a remote database using  
psql and perls DBI or DBD::Pg modules.


I have installed the following today:
Xcode (gcc  make)
DBI
Bundle::CPAN

from CPAN.  This also included YAML.

and Fink  MacPorts -- but nothing else from these.

I also have found that pgsql is already on the notebook and works  
correctly.

I also found the pg_config file in:
/System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/rmdb.bundle/bin/pg_config
But when I put this in for my path to pg_config I get the following  
(YAML?) related error immediately afterwards.:


Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
Note (probably harmless): No library found for -lpq
Using DBI 1.54 (for perl 5.008006 on darwin-thread-multi-2level)  
installed in /Library/Perl/5.8.6/darwin-thread-multi-2level/auto/DBI/

Writing Makefile for DBD::Pg
YAML Warning: Parsing a 1.2 document with a 1.0 parser
   Code: YAML_PARSE_WARN_BAD_MINOR_VERSION
   Line: 2
   Document: 1
at /Library/Perl/5.8.6/YAML/Base.pm line 88
YAML::Base::warn('YAML::Loader=HASH(0x4f939e0)',  
'YAML_PARSE_WARN_BAD_MINOR_VERSION', 1.2) called at /Library/Perl/ 
5.8.6/YAML/Loader.pm line 95
YAML::Loader::_parse('YAML::Loader=HASH(0x4f939e0)') called  
at /Library/Perl/5.8.6/YAML/Loader.pm line 22


And it spews a few dozen more lines that I truncated.
I'm not sure what I need to do at this point.  There isn't anything  
here that says the problem is the postgresql libraries or anything  
like that.  Rather a YAML issue.


The funny thing is the claim that the Parser is a 1.0 parser when *I*  
think it's the most up to date available (which is version 0.67) so  
I'm not in the right point of reference on the version.


I'm really hoping I can get this working soon.
It's kind of killing my progress and whole point of getting a MacBook.

Help?



Re: installation of DBD::Pg

2007-05-01 Thread Tom Allison

This took an extremely long time to post.
The problem has since been resolved...

On Apr 30, 2007, at 5:29 PM, Tom Allison wrote:


I got a MacBook two days ago.
My wife has had one for a year and it looked like a good thing.