Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Giving up on ghc

2005-06-26 Thread Brian McCallister
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 iirc, the biggest problem I had with the fink install looked like a second level namespace problem in gmp. With darwinports it was readline, but that was my own stupid fault as I had "replaced" apple's editline with readline in a particularly st

[Fink-devel] Re: Giving up on ghc

2005-06-26 Thread Matthias Neeracher
On Jun 26, 2005, at 10:06 AM, Remko Troncon wrote: With much tweaking of readline (installing a local readline instead of editline in /usr/local -- dunno why that mattered for fink) I was eventually able to get the darwinports version working. It relies on a bootstrap which is set up to lo

[Fink-devel] Re: Giving up on ghc

2005-06-26 Thread Remko Troncon
With much tweaking of readline (installing a local readline instead of editline in /usr/local -- dunno why that mattered for fink) I was eventually able to get the darwinports version working. It relies on a bootstrap which is set up to look at the darwinports library locations, but those l

[Fink-devel] Vomiting record

2005-06-26 Thread Martin Costabel
Wow... I thought the one hundred thousand lines with "not from earlier dynamic library" in the gimp2 compilation output was a record. But kdelibs3-ssl-3.4.1-11 beats'em all by a wide margin. % grep "accepting rule at line" updateall_G21.log | wc 7293747 45386256 264142384 Seven million lines.

Re: [Fink-devel] 235 packages?

2005-06-26 Thread Daniel Macks
On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 04:50:50PM -0400, Alexander Strange wrote: > On Jun 24, 2005, at 4:43 PM, Alexander K. Hansen wrote: > > > >It sounds like the PDB is reindexing itself. > > Why does it empty the PDB before adding the new entries? If > Sourceforge's SQL server supports transactions, it's

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Giving up on ghc

2005-06-26 Thread Corey Halpin
On 2005-06-26, Brian McCallister wrote: > With much tweaking of readline (installing a local readline instead > of editline in /usr/local -- dunno why that mattered for fink) I was > eventually able to get the darwinports version working. It relies on > a bootstrap which is set up to look at

Re: [Fink-devel] Giving up on ghc

2005-06-26 Thread Corey Halpin
On 2005-06-25, Matthias Neeracher wrote: > I'm afraid I find myself unable to get the ghc package to run again > after trying for more than a week (why do supposedly "clean" > languages always have such dirty builds?), so I've retired it from CVS. > > I've left my abortive attempt at a 6.4 in

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: [Fink-users] Firefox Build Fails

2005-06-26 Thread Martin Costabel
Hanspeter Niederstrasser wrote: [] I added a new tracker[1] item with msachs' patch a week ago but it has gotten no love :( The patch does fix the build error that I'm cc'ing fink-devel. Can someone there please commit those two files to CVS? Sorry I missed your submission. In the meantime

[Fink-devel] Re: [Fink-users] Firefox Build Fails

2005-06-26 Thread Hanspeter Niederstrasser
Martin Costabel wrote: Michèle Garoche wrote: [] It may be completely irrelevant, but Matthew Sachs has patched recently mozilla precisely on the oiddata.h file. It may be that this patch applies also to firefox; it is the last chunk of patch in mozilla.patch file. That's it exactly. I am b

[Fink-devel] Re: Giving up on ghc

2005-06-26 Thread Brian McCallister
With much tweaking of readline (installing a local readline instead of editline in /usr/local -- dunno why that mattered for fink) I was eventually able to get the darwinports version working. It relies on a bootstrap which is set up to look at the darwinports library locations, but those l

[Fink-devel] Giving up on ghc

2005-06-26 Thread Matthias Neeracher
{Cc to everybody who has reported that ghc no longer builds] I'm afraid I find myself unable to get the ghc package to run again after trying for more than a week (why do supposedly "clean" languages always have such dirty builds?), so I've retired it from CVS. I've left my abortive attempt