[Fink-devel] unable to install gcc42 on a clean /sw

2007-01-28 Thread William Scott
I followed Jack's suggestion, moving /sw out of the way, making a new one, with unstable activated, and tried to compile gcc42 so that I could move the deb files back into my original /sw Unfortunately, the nightmare persists: dpkg-deb: building package `gcc42' in

Re: [Fink-devel] gcc42 mixed result

2007-01-28 Thread Jack Howarth
So if I understand all of the comments so far, the problem may be avoidable with an older tar but even that produces warnings in fink. If the hypothesis of Spotlight indexing blocking files is correct, perhaps the answer is for the fink developers to add code to fink that stops and starts the

Re: [Fink-devel] gcc42 mixed result

2007-01-28 Thread David Fang
So if I understand all of the comments so far, the problem may be avoidable with an older tar but even that produces warnings in fink. If the hypothesis of Spotlight indexing blocking files is correct, perhaps the answer is for the fink developers to add code to fink that stops and starts

[Fink-devel] Add get_desc_detail and get_desc_usage to PkgVersion.pm

2007-01-28 Thread Christian Schaffner
Dear Fink developers In order to make the 'dump' script of the pdb working with the new ideas layed out at http://wiki.finkproject.org/index.php/Fink:PDB and started in the 'redesign_pdb' branch, I would like to commit the attached path to fink. It introduces two new methods

Re: [Fink-devel] gcc42 mixed result

2007-01-28 Thread Martin Costabel
David Fang wrote: [] Perhaps something about Spotlight disabling could be added to the FAQ? It makes a somewhat noticeable improvement on slow machines. I'd recommend disabling for at least the src/fink.build directories. Spotlight does not touch *.build directories. That's why

Re: [Fink-devel] gcc42 mixed result

2007-01-28 Thread David Fang
Spotlight does not touch *.build directories. That's why fink.build was introduced in the first place. Maybe the people who have this weird error changed their build directory to something other than fink.build? Martin, Ahhh... [me: starts renaming all his project build directories] My

Re: [Fink-devel] gcc42 mixed result (Spotlight is *not* the problem)

2007-01-28 Thread William Scott
I just want to re-emphasize that what I said before was that Spotlight was NOT the problem (I guessed wrongly that it might be, and instructed it to stay out of /sw, and that did not help). I also found creating a new /sw did not solve the problem. The tar explanation strikes me as more

Re: [Fink-devel] gcc42 mixed result

2007-01-28 Thread Jack Howarth
It would appear that using tar 1.16 in fink is a really bad idea... http://www.mail-archive.com/amanda-users@amanda.org/msg37008.html I would also note that Fedora development is still using 1.15.1 for tar. Jack

[Fink-devel] Updating pcre revisited

2007-01-28 Thread Daniel Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A while ago I had suggested updating pcre to something not so prehistoric, but at the time concerns were raised about library compatibility. Recently. I looked closely at the current version, 7.0, and compared it to Fink's 4.5. I can't find any

Re: [Fink-devel] gcc42 mixed result

2007-01-28 Thread Daniel Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Jan 28, 2007, at 4:12 PM, Jack Howarth wrote: It would appear that using tar 1.16 in fink is a really bad idea... http://www.mail-archive.com/amanda-users@amanda.org/msg37008.html I would also note that Fedora development is still using

Re: [Fink-devel] unable to install gcc42 on a clean /sw

2007-01-28 Thread William Scott
I repeated the process (complete with the latest tar) and this time it worked. On Jan 28, 2007, at 10:32 AM, William Scott wrote: I followed Jack's suggestion, moving /sw out of the way, making a new one, with unstable activated, and tried to compile gcc42 so that I could move the deb

Re: [Fink-devel] Updating pcre revisited

2007-01-28 Thread Benjamin Reed
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Johnson wrote: While upstream hasn't rigorously followed libtool versioning guidelines, even if they had, the install_name would still not have changed since 4.5 since CURRENT and AGE would still be the same. I've done some testing

Re: [Fink-devel] Add get_desc_detail and get_desc_usage to PkgVersion.pm

2007-01-28 Thread Daniel Macks
On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 01:38:37PM -0600, Christian Schaffner wrote: Dear Fink developers In order to make the 'dump' script of the pdb working with the new ideas layed out at http://wiki.finkproject.org/index.php/Fink:PDB and started in the 'redesign_pdb' branch, I would like to