[Fink-beginners] Open-x11

2004-08-23 Thread Thøger Juul Thorsen
This might be a little off-topic, but: Is it possible to make the open-x11 command take a file as an argument after the program, so that I for instance can open a text file in emacs from the terminal.app...? Thanx in advance, Thøger Juul Thorsen -- "Menneskehedens største håb for fremtiden

Re: [Fink-beginners] update-all compiler problem

2004-08-23 Thread Martin Costabel
Martin Costabel wrote: [] The package doesn't say it - and this is a bug - but you need the gcc-3.1 compiler installed to compile freetype-hinting. I fixed this now in cvs by adding a BuildDepends on the virtual package gcc3.1. In Luca's situation, this would then give an error message Failed:

Re: [Fink-beginners] update-all compiler problem

2004-08-23 Thread Martin Costabel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [] configure:824: checking whether the C compiler (gcc3 -no-cpp-precomp -I/sw/include -L/sw/lib) works configure:840: gcc3 -o conftest -no-cpp-precomp -I/sw/include -no-cpp-precomp -I/sw/include -L/sw/lib conftest.c -L/sw/lib 1>&5 The package doesn't say it - and this is a

Re: [Fink-beginners] update-all compiler problem

2004-08-23 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
On Aug 23, 2004, at 3:11 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alexander K. Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It may have nothing to do with the compiler itself, but that you are missing some headers needed for compilation of freetype-hinting. Check in the freetype-hinting build directory for a file call

Re: [Fink-beginners] update-all compiler problem

2004-08-23 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Alexander K. Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It may have nothing to do with the compiler itself, but that you are > missing some headers needed for compilation of freetype-hinting. Check > in the freetype-hinting build directory for a file called config.log > and see what it says the proble

[Fink-beginners] Re: Installing fink packages to use user installed programs?

2004-08-23 Thread Daniel E. Macks
israel evans said: > > I would like to know how, if it's at all possible, to install > something like svn with fink, but have it use, if present outside of > the sw tree, it's software dependancies. In general, it is not possible. > I'd rather not have to install yet another version of python i

Re: [Fink-beginners] update-all compiler problem

2004-08-23 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
On Aug 23, 2004, at 12:26 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everybody! I experiencing some difficulties in updating my fink distribution. A couple of weeks ago I upgraded fink via rsync and everything went the right way; after that I issued a "fink update-all" as suggested at the end of "fink selfupd

[Fink-beginners] update-all compiler problem

2004-08-23 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi everybody! I experiencing some difficulties in updating my fink distribution. A couple of weeks ago I upgraded fink via rsync and everything went the right way; after that I issued a "fink update-all" as suggested at the end of "fink selfupdate". I chose "ssl" and "LZW-enabled" packets every t

Re: [Fink-beginners] Installing fink packages to use user installed programs?

2004-08-23 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
On Aug 22, 2004, at 3:54 PM, israel evans wrote: hello there... I would like to know how, if it's at all possible, to install something like svn with fink, but have it use, if present outside of the sw tree, it's software dependancies. I'd rather not have to install yet another version of pytho

[Fink-beginners] Installing fink packages to use user installed programs?

2004-08-23 Thread israel evans
hello there... I would like to know how, if it's at all possible, to install something like svn with fink, but have it use, if present outside of the sw tree, it's software dependancies. I'd rather not have to install yet another version of python if I can help it. and I've already got apache2

Re: [Fink-beginners] Re: compiling pwlib-1.5.2-12 failed

2004-08-23 Thread Martin Costabel
Martin Costabel wrote: Jim Saklad wrote: [] /sw/src/pwlib-1.5.2-12/pwlib/include/ptlib/contain.inl:359: no type named ` Buffer' in `class PStringStream' Could you show more of the output please? It would be useful to see it at least starting from the beginning of the last compiler command l

Re: [Fink-beginners] Re: compiling pwlib-1.5.2-12 failed

2004-08-23 Thread Martin Costabel
Jim Saklad wrote: At 6:37 PM +0200 8/22/04, Martin Costabel wrote: To be honest, I was surprised to see it in action, too. Just to show you how this can look when it is working, here are some lines from beginning and the end of the build log: . I just (1400 EDT Sunday) tried installing pwl

Re: [Fink-beginners] Re: compiling pwlib-1.5.2-12 failed

2004-08-23 Thread Martin Costabel
Daniel Johnson wrote: [] Weirder and weirder. When I tried "fink rebuild pwlib" like you just did, it worked. But, It definitely did NOT work during a "fink update-all" using the same version of fink. I've been looking at the dependency engine to see if I can follow what it's doing, but it su