Re: [Fink-devel] Non-root builds?

2003-09-10 Thread Greg Novak
> So while your modification is great for all but the next-to-last step that > a developer takes, it's not practical for most users of Fink, who want > to go ahead and build the deb, or take a pre-built deb and install it. For users of fink, I think the current setup is fine. You're right, most p

[Fink-devel] Non-root builds?

2003-09-10 Thread Greg Novak
I started creating some fink packages that I may eventually try to have distributed, and I recently had the extremely unpleasant experience of having a "fink build" command write a whole bunch of files to the fink tree (not the /sw/src/package-root directory, as it was supposed to). It turns out th

[Fink-devel] Re: Problems building fink package for mod_dav_svn

2003-09-10 Thread mark benedetto king
On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 04:34:10PM +0200, Christian Schaffner wrote: > Warning! dlname not found in > /sw/src/root-svn-ssl-0.29.0-2/sw/lib/apache2/modules/mod_dav_svn.la. > Assuming installing a .so rather than a libtool archive. > chmod 755 > /sw/src/root-svn-ssl-0.29.0-2/sw/lib/apache2/modul

Re: [Fink-devel] Status of cvs server problems?

2003-09-10 Thread Remi Mommsen
Hi, There has been a crash of the cvs backup server, see http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=2352&group_id=1#cvs Currently the cvs browser still presents the status of about 6 days ago, i.e. the all files I checked are at least that old. Hopefully the backup server will be s

Re: [Fink-devel] Non-root builds?

2003-09-10 Thread David R. Morrison
Greg Novak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 Jerry Talkington wrote: > > > Unfortunately there doesn't seem to any desire among the maintainers to > > make fink a more user mode environment, which is a big mistake, IMHO. > > An application shouldn't request root privileges until abs

Re: [Fink-devel] Problems building fink package for mod_dav_svn

2003-09-10 Thread Christian Schaffner
On Mittwoch, September 10, 2003, at 05:31 Uhr, David R. Morrison wrote: Well, it's still relinking. Mhmmm... Why does it list as libtool SH_LIBTOOL='/sw/share/apr-0/build/libtool' That sounds like something already installed, perhaps by the previous build? If it wants to be using a customized

Re: [Fink-devel] Status of cvs server problems?

2003-09-10 Thread David
On Mittwoch, September 10, 2003, at 02:41 Uhr, Christian Schaffner wrote: Hi Therefore I wanted to know what the current status of this problem at fink is, and if there is anybody trying to solve it. What do the others think? We did suggest moving our ressources onto the opendarwin site's r

Re: [Fink-devel] Non-root builds?

2003-09-10 Thread Greg Novak
On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 Jerry Talkington wrote: > Unfortunately there doesn't seem to any desire among the maintainers to > make fink a more user mode environment, which is a big mistake, IMHO. > An application shouldn't request root privileges until absolutely > necessary. A poorly patched or configu

Re: [Fink-devel] adding .tex files

2003-09-10 Thread Martin Costabel
Koen van der Drift wrote: How do I specify it goes into one of those? No idea, you have to negotiate with your Makefile. -- Martin --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf

Re: [Fink-devel] adding .tex files

2003-09-10 Thread Koen van der Drift
On Wednesday, September 10, 2003, at 06:15 PM, Martin Costabel wrote: I guess you will have to choose one of these, multiply copying doesn't work with this syntax (and you don't want to make multiple copies). How do I specify it goes into one of those? thanks, - Koen.

Re: [Fink-devel] Status of cvs server problems?

2003-09-10 Thread Remi Mommsen
Hi, There has been a crash of the cvs backup server, see http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=2352&group_id=1#cvs Currently the cvs browser still presents the status of about 6 days ago, i.e. the all files I checked are at least that old. Hopefully the backup server will be s

Re: [Fink-devel] adding .tex files

2003-09-10 Thread Martin Costabel
Koen van der Drift wrote: Hi, I am working on a package (kguitar) that installs some .tex files. However, it doesn't work because I don' know how to set the path where to install it. So this is what happens during the packaging phase: ... Copy kgtabs.tex to {/Users/koen/Library/texmf,/sw/

[Fink-devel] adding .tex files

2003-09-10 Thread Koen van der Drift
Hi, I am working on a package (kguitar) that installs some .tex files. However, it doesn't work because I don' know how to set the path where to install it. So this is what happens during the packaging phase: ... Copy kgtabs.tex to {/Users/koen/Library/texmf,/sw/share/texmf-local,/sw/var/l

Re: [Fink-devel] Problems building fink package for mod_dav_svn

2003-09-10 Thread David R. Morrison
Well, it's still relinking. Why does it list as libtool SH_LIBTOOL='/sw/share/apr-0/build/libtool' That sounds like something already installed, perhaps by the previous build? If it wants to be using a customized one, it should be looking in the build directory, no? -- Dave ---

Re: [Fink-devel] Problems building fink package for mod_dav_svn

2003-09-10 Thread Christian Schaffner
On Mittwoch, September 10, 2003, at 05:09 Uhr, Christian Schaffner wrote: Or, if it is finding an old copy of the library during linking instead of the one it just build, you can try perl -pi.bak -e "s/hardcode_direct=yes/hardcode_direct=no/" configure I will try that and report back. This d

Re: [Fink-devel] Problems building fink package for mod_dav_svn

2003-09-10 Thread Christian Schaffner
Hi Dave Thanks for responding. On Mittwoch, September 10, 2003, at 05:05 Uhr, David R. Morrison wrote: This sounds like the libtool-1.4.x relinking bug. Try disabling relinking and see if that cures it. perl -pi.bak -e "s/need_relink=yes/need_relink=no/" ltmain.sh is one way to do it. Sor

Re: [Fink-devel] Problems building fink package for mod_dav_svn

2003-09-10 Thread David R. Morrison
This sounds like the libtool-1.4.x relinking bug. Try disabling relinking and see if that cures it. perl -pi.bak -e "s/need_relink=yes/need_relink=no/" ltmain.sh is one way to do it. Or, if it is finding an old copy of the library during linking instead of the one it just build, you can try

[Fink-devel] Problems building fink package for mod_dav_svn

2003-09-10 Thread Christian Schaffner
Hi I am the maintainer of the fink package for svn on MacOS X 10.2.x: (Therefore I copied this message to the fink devel list.) This package does not build the apache2 integration yet since I have the following problem. The build fails with t

[Fink-devel] Status of cvs server problems?

2003-09-10 Thread Christian Schaffner
Hi There were quite a few problems with the sf cvs servers lately. It seems to be almost impossible to do a 'fink selfupdate-cvs'. I know there were some talks about moving to another provider (savannah maybe?). Also there was a bug report added today: