Re: [Fink-devel] Re: [Fink-users] failed fink update system-xfree86

2003-08-24 Thread Ben Hines
On Sunday, August 24, 2003, at 04:15 PM, Benjamin Reed wrote: Please chill out, it's called unstable for a reason. I made a mistake, I will fix it when I have more than 3 minutes at a time to dig into weird packaging dep issues. In the meantime, this is a valid workaround. Well, the only re

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: [Fink-users] failed fink update system-xfree86

2003-08-24 Thread Benjamin Reed
On Sunday, August 24, 2003, at 7:02 PM, Martin Costabel wrote: Ben Hines wrote: Telling every fink user to do this is idiotic. Why do you write this to me? I complained to the maintainer immediately when this came out (*), but although I can imagine several solutions of the problem myself, I'll

[Fink-devel] Re: [Fink-users] failed fink update system-xfree86

2003-08-24 Thread Martin Costabel
Ben Hines wrote: Telling every fink user to do this is idiotic. Why do you write this to me? I complained to the maintainer immediately when this came out (*), but although I can imagine several solutions of the problem myself, I'll leave it to him to fix it. In the meantime, I will go on helpi

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: [Fink-users] failed fink update system-xfree86

2003-08-24 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
A quick workaround might be to have an "upgrade-system-xfree86" package that installs a shell script to do the uninstallation--similarly to how that for XFree86-4.2 -> XFree86-4.3 was done. I've put up a FAQ entry, but didn't want to overstep my bounds by editing the news. -- Alexander K. Hansen

[Fink-devel] Re: [Fink-users] failed fink update system-xfree86

2003-08-24 Thread Ben Hines
Telling every fink user to do this is idiotic. If that is the plan, it should obviously be posted as a news item AND put in the FAQ. Things like this are why people complain about fink, because there are always errors, always problems, never simple updates. It doesn't 'just work' - every few m

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Compiling CLISP on MacOSX

2003-08-24 Thread David R. Morrison
Pascal Bourguignon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > With the CVS HEAD it seems that clisp/configure does not take into > account the CC environment variable: It's still using 'gcc', while in > by script, I explicitely set export CC=3D'cc -no-cpp-precomp'. > Obviously, since it's s

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2003-08-24 Thread John Davidorff Pell
I'm actually a little confused as to why each *package* needs the gcc: 3.1 | 3.3 flags. Its only important to which version of gcc3 we compile with, not which code we compile. Shouldn't fink just keep track of which gcc3 a given package was compiled with instead of making a duplicate info file for

[Fink-devel] Re: Compiling CLISP on MacOSX

2003-08-24 Thread Sam Steingold
> * In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * On the subject of "Re: Compiling CLISP on MacOSX" > * Sent on Sat, 23 Aug 2003 16:40:33 +0200 > * Honorable Pascal Bourguignon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > With the CVS HEAD it seems that clisp/configure does not take into > account the CC environment varia