[Fink-devel] Subdirs in InfoDocs field

2005-02-22 Thread Daniel Macks
It's documented to contain "the names of Info documents that the package installs in %p/share/info", and causes install-info commands to be added to postinst and prerm. I don't know much about how to use install-info, but I do know about inconsistencies. To wit... The usual case is for simple file

[Fink-devel] GLib problem

2005-02-22 Thread Michael
I think I found a problem with glib2. When I ran gaim -d | more the first line of output was: GLib: Cannot convert message: Conversion from character set 'UTF-8' to 'en_US' is not supported, and then susequently all the plugins fail to load. Any ideas? Mike S --

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: [OT]: OpenOSX humor

2005-02-22 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
On Feb 22, 2005, at 7:36 PM, Spundun Bhatt wrote: Corey Halpin wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 There's a bit more information on this here: http://fink.sourceforge.net/pr/openosx.php On that page it says that openosx credits fink on their Gimp page. I went to the Gimp page on

[Fink-devel] Re: [OT]: OpenOSX humor

2005-02-22 Thread Spundun Bhatt
Corey Halpin wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 There's a bit more information on this here: http://fink.sourceforge.net/pr/openosx.php On that page it says that openosx credits fink on their Gimp page. I went to the Gimp page on their website.. but they dont credit Fink at all.

Re: [Fink-devel] wxWidgets vs. wxMac

2005-02-22 Thread Charles Lepple
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 16:36:52 -0500, Daniel Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Feb 19, 2005, at 4:54 PM, Trevor Harmon wrote: > > > Okay, makes sense. Currently the wxmac/wxgtk packages Conflict/Replace > > each other, but they don't Provide anything. As a test, I modified the > > wxmac pac

Re: [Fink-devel] wxWidgets vs. wxMac

2005-02-22 Thread Trevor Harmon
On Feb 20, 2005, at 5:51 PM, Daniel Macks wrote: Having them all Provide a common "placeholder" package only works if they really are drop-in replacements for each other, for example, identical headers, and .dylib links to identically-named and binary-compatible runtime .dylib files. Is that the ca

Re: [Fink-devel] wxWidgets vs. wxMac

2005-02-22 Thread Trevor Harmon
On Feb 22, 2005, at 1:36 PM, Daniel Johnson wrote: FinkCommander's handling of provided virtual packages is completely broken. Among other things, it doesn't clear the variable that holds the version when a provided package is processed, which causes it to list the version of the last real packa

Re: [Fink-devel] wxWidgets vs. wxMac

2005-02-22 Thread Daniel Johnson
On Feb 19, 2005, at 4:54 PM, Trevor Harmon wrote: Okay, makes sense. Currently the wxmac/wxgtk packages Conflict/Replace each other, but they don't Provide anything. As a test, I modified the wxmac package so that it Provides wxwidgets, rebuilt it, and indeed a wxwidgets "virtual package" showed

Re: [Fink-devel] fink dumpinfo on 10.2

2005-02-22 Thread Martin Costabel
Here is what happens (complete output): Daniel Macks wrote: Interesting findings! In the original sort_versions, what happens if you change sort { version_cmp($a,"<=>",$b) } @_; to sort version_cmp($a,"<=>",$b) @_; % fink dumpinfo fink Array found where operator expected at /sw/lib/

Re: [Fink-devel] fink dumpinfo on 10.2

2005-02-22 Thread Daniel Macks
Interesting findings! In the original sort_versions, what happens if you change sort { version_cmp($a,"<=>",$b) } @_; to sort version_cmp($a,"<=>",$b) @_; or sort { &version_cmp($a,"<=>",$b) } @_; On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 09:12:30PM +0100, Martin Costabel wrote: > Martin Cos

Re: [Fink-devel] fink dumpinfo on 10.2

2005-02-22 Thread Martin Costabel
Martin Costabel wrote: Now that the fink versions on Jaguar and Panther are different, it would be nice if the old dumpinfo bug could be fixed. Whereas I don't know enough perl to understand the origin of the problem, here is some observation that could perhaps help some of you perl gurus to se

Re: [Fink-devel] Pybliographer

2005-02-22 Thread Kurt Schwehr
http://schwehr.org/software/fink/gnome-python-py24.info I made a quick hack out of gnome-python-py23.{info,patch}. The patch stayed the same. The info file is at the URL above.Then it installed just fine. i haven't had a chance to check out what exactly that package does (this darn thesis t

[Fink-devel] Re: [fink-seed] Re: Bug ID 3978724: Cups headers are not included

2005-02-22 Thread Dr . Ernie Prabhakar
Well, I can vouch that /usr/include/cups is part of my Tiger developer install, even though it doesn't appear to be on Panther. -enp On Feb 4, 2005, at 9:08 PM, Ben Hines wrote: They lie. Perhaps they are there on tiger? They aren't on panther, even with the dev tools installed. -Ben On Feb 4

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Validation change

2005-02-22 Thread TheSin
as do I --- TS http://southofheaven.org Chaos is the beginning and end, try dealing with the rest. On 22-Feb-05, at 4:36 AM, David R. Morrison wrote: I like this idea. -- Dave To: fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net From: "Daniel E. Macks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Fink-devel] Re: Validation cha

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

2005-02-22 Thread Martin Costabel
Michael wrote: 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 su

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Validation change

2005-02-22 Thread David R. Morrison
I like this idea. -- Dave > To: fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > From: "Daniel E. Macks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [Fink-devel] Re: Validation change > Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 04:42:51 + (UTC) > > How about having 'fink validate' by default always display all > warnings (regardless o

[Fink-devel] Unwanted behaviour of fink cleanup?

2005-02-22 Thread Koen van der Drift
Hi, When working on a new info file, I usually excecute the 'purge-nonbase' script to remove all non-essential packages. Recently I used that script, followed by a 'fink cleanup' command. It turned out that after that I had to re-download many sourcefiles and rebuild many packages. So I ass