Re: [Fink-devel] static

2005-02-21 Thread Tony Arnold
All, On 21/02/2005, at 6:36 PM, Nigel Stanger wrote: On 21/2/2005 1:49 AM, Peter O'Gorman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: If I recall correctly, the problems come when you have an app that needs fontconfig and also needs a lib that uses the new fontconfig, both the older fontconfig in /usr/X11R6

Re: [Fink-devel] Pybliographer

2005-02-21 Thread Martin Costabel
David R. Morrison wrote: Sorry to be so slow to respond here: I've only just begun to track down what's happening. David, I think this is a rather complicated situation, and it may hint at more trouble we will see in the python domain. A lot of *-py23 packages my be broken since the arrival of

[Fink-devel] problem

2005-02-21 Thread Flo
Hi everyone I'm new to newsgroup so don't hesitate to tell me if I shouldn't have posted this message here. The program that I'm trying to compile has nothing to do with fink, but you must have run into this problem while "porting" so maybe you could help me: I get this error while trying to

Re: [Fink-devel] static

2005-02-21 Thread Tony Arnold
Hey Mike, On 20/02/2005, at 7:55 PM, Michael wrote: One Step further on that the fontconfig2-dev package that I molded for the 10.2-gcc3.3 tree requires freetype-2.1.4 or later, which is currently not there, and on the freedesktop X libs, if by blockers, he meant what I am about to say, I apolo

[Fink-devel] CVS Unstable Access Request

2005-02-21 Thread Ashley Yakeley
Hi, I maintain a number of packages in unstable. Unfortunately I don't have CVS access to the unstable branch, even though I am listed as a "packager". Could someone give me access to the unstable part of the tree? There doesn't seem to be any other convenient mechanism for updating packages.

Re: [Fink-devel] CVS Unstable Access Request

2005-02-21 Thread David R. Morrison
Ashley Yakeley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Could someone give me access to the unstable part of the > tree? You now have CVS access. -- Dave --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of

Re: [Fink-devel] Pybliographer

2005-02-21 Thread Don McKenzie Paul
On 21 Feb 2005, at 02:51, David R. Morrison wrote: Sorry to be so slow to respond here: I've only just begun to track down what's happening. When I compile this, I have no problem because the python setup script does not find a value for DISPLAY in the environment, and so reports "cannot tes

Re: [Fink-devel] policy question

2005-02-21 Thread Joe Block
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Feb 19, 2005, at 9:13 AM, Peter O'Gorman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David R. Morrison wrote: | The policy question is: should the new package download the libjpeg source | and copy the needed headers into its build tree, or

[Fink-devel] fink validate

2005-02-21 Thread Michael
ok people's this is a bit embarrassing, but please bear with me. I just learned about the fink validate thing last night. Now when I try to validate my glib2 package, I get an error about the patch. Validating package file glib2.info... Failed: Error performing percent expansion: unknown % exp

Re: [Fink-devel] fink validate

2005-02-21 Thread Tony Arnold
Hi Mike, On 22/02/2005, at 8:51 AM, Michael wrote: ok people's this is a bit embarrassing, but please bear with me. I just learned about the fink validate thing last night. Now when I try to validate my glib2 package, I get an error about the patch. Validating package file glib2.info... Failed

[Fink-devel] threads?

2005-02-21 Thread Michael
when I built gcc-3.4.3 on my own, I used a line --enable-threads=posix, can everyone using fink in OS X use this threading? Wouldn't that get rid of the annoying gcc: unrecognized option `-pthreads' ? Mike S --- SF email is sponsored by - The

Re: [Fink-devel] threads?

2005-02-21 Thread Alexander Strange
On Feb 21, 2005, at 5:25 PM, Michael wrote: when I built gcc-3.4.3 on my own, I used a line --enable-threads=posix, can everyone using fink in OS X use this threading? What do you mean? Wouldn't that get rid of the annoying gcc: unrecognized option `-pthreads' ? No. Threading in Darwin/OS X is a

Re: [Fink-devel] threads?

2005-02-21 Thread Michael
Tony Arnold wrote: Hi Mike, On 22/02/2005, at 9:25 AM, Michael wrote: when I built gcc-3.4.3 on my own, I used a line --enable-threads=posix, can everyone using fink in OS X use this threading? Wouldn't that get rid of the annoying gcc: unrecognized option `-pthreads' ? You've just stepped bey

[Fink-devel] Volunteering to maintain some of the orphaned fink packages

2005-02-21 Thread Bradshaw, Michael
Hello, I'd be interested in picking up a handful of packages that lack a maintainer. I use fink and am from an AIX background, but have also used Mac since they came out. What's needed to start with a couple and see how things pan out? Michael Bradshaw -- SIEMENS Power Transmission and Distrib

[Fink-devel] sdl

2005-02-21 Thread Michael
I moved sdl from 10.3/unstable/main into my local directory, to get 1.2.8 over 1.2.7 but when I install this I get: /sw/build/sdl-1.2.8-1/SDL-1.2.8/missing: Unknown `--run' option Try `/sw/build/sdl-1.2.8-1/SDL-1.2.8/missing --help' for more information configure: WARNING: `missing' script is too

Re: [Fink-devel] Volunteering to maintain some of the orphaned fink packages

2005-02-21 Thread David R. Morrison
> From: "Bradshaw, Michael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "'fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net'" > Subject: [Fink-devel] Volunteering to maintain some of the orphaned fink > packages > Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 15:53:39 -0600 > > Hello, > > I'd be interested in picking up a handful of packages that lack

Re: [Fink-devel] sdl

2005-02-21 Thread David R. Morrison
> From: Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [Fink-devel] sdl > Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 18:23:29 -0800 > > I moved sdl from 10.3/unstable/main into my local directory, to get > 1.2.8 over 1.2.7 but when I install this I get: > > /sw/build/sdl-1.2.8-1/SDL-1

[Fink-devel] CofigureParams vs. CompileScript vs. InstallScript

2005-02-21 Thread Michael
ok I am at a loss herre as to the difference. I have seen in the CompileScript ./configure %c, now I have seen in the InstallScript make install --prefix=%i, but the way I would do it is add --prefix=%p either in the CompileScript or in the ConfigureParams. Now am I right in surmising that th

[Fink-devel] add previous

2005-02-21 Thread Michael
another way I've seen is make install DESTDIR=%d in the compile script. Mike S --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to th

[Fink-devel] Re: Validation change

2005-02-21 Thread Daniel E. Macks
How about having 'fink validate' by default always display all warnings (regardless of user's verbosity setting), and add a --no-pedantic flag for validate to hide the pedantic/formatting messages? That way packagers don't accidentally not catch mistakes but those who want to see major/functional m

[Fink-devel] popt and BuildDependsOnly policy

2005-02-21 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
Hi folks, Thanks to tonyarnold, the 'popt' package should no longer be required for packages that use popt-shlibs to have proper localization. Packages that Depend on popt despite it being BuildDependsOnly should no longer do so. So if you see fink warn about a package depending on popt, please