[Fink-devel] GSOC 2011?

2011-02-28 Thread Alexander Strange
The deadline for applying to Google Summer of Code as an organization is March 11. Has anyone thought of applying for Fink? I can think of several projects that could make package maintenance easier and more reliable, but are missing manpower at the moment; e.g.: - automatic BuildDepends - upda

Re: [Fink-devel] Debbuging with XCode

2010-09-15 Thread Alexander Strange
On Sep 15, 2010, at 12:55 PM, xavier.humb...@xavhome.fr.eu.org (Xavier HUMBERT) wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to port a Linux program on fink, but there's some bugs > > It is certainly possible to debug it with XCode, but I don't know how. I > didn't use a source level debugger -exept Perl, b

Re: [Fink-devel] Fwd: Re: [Fink-beginners] Can't Install clisp 2.48-1 on 64-bit Snow Leopard and Fink

2009-12-15 Thread Alexander Strange
On Dec 14, 2009, at 6:50 PM, Jean-François Mertens wrote: > > On 14 Dec 2009, at 23:05, Alexander Hansen wrote: > >> - Original Message >> Subject: Re: [Fink-beginners] Can't Install clisp 2.48-1 on 64-bit >> Snow >> Leopard and Fink >> Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:38:18 +0100

Re: [Fink-devel] The Pangocairo Has Landed

2008-07-15 Thread Alexander Strange
On Jul 15, 2008, at 1:38 PM, Martin Costabel wrote: > Daniel Macks wrote: > [] >> All of unstable is coherently using the pango1-xft2-ft219 library >> instead of pango1-xft2; only -ft219 should be used for anything in >> unstable. > > My experience in update-all'ing from pre-pc to post-pc was not

Re: [Fink-devel] Let's update gimp2 on pangocairo-branch!

2008-05-26 Thread Alexander Strange
On May 24, 2008, at 6:33 PM, Tomoaki Okayama wrote: > At Sun, 11 May 2008 18:19:04 -0400, > Alexander Strange wrote: >> >> Can you make it diffable? :) >> > To find a happy medium, I renewed my patch and made a new finkinfo. > The big differences from the previo

Re: [Fink-devel] Let's update gimp2 on pangocairo-branch!

2008-05-11 Thread Alexander Strange
Now that I'm done with finals, I can reply to all my email. On Apr 30, 2008, at 6:50 PM, Sebastien Maret wrote: Alexander Strange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: There's another new package for it here: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1942780&gr

Re: [Fink-devel] Let's update gimp2 on pangocairo-branch!

2008-04-30 Thread Alexander Strange
t;> it. >> | Two issues: >> >> Also, why disable python? >> > If enable python, some messy changes should be done, and lots of > dependency should be added, which may be painful for the maintainer > and users. > My patch changes gimp2.info as little as possib

Re: [Fink-devel] Let's update gimp2 on pangocairo-branch!

2008-04-30 Thread Alexander Strange
On Apr 30, 2008, at 9:18 AM, Daniel Macks wrote: > On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 08:56:01PM +0900, Tomoaki Okayama wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I attach an update patch for gimp2.info on pangocairo-branch. >> Please test and commit it! >> >> [ChangeLog] >> * BuildDepends: >> - netpbm is not needed. >> - esou

Re: [Fink-devel] No /etc/fonts directory in Leopard (OS X.5)

2007-10-31 Thread Alexander Strange
On Oct 31, 2007, at 8:53 AM, Ebrahim Mayat wrote: > Hello again > > I have come across the same error when trying to launch (in Leopard) > a couple of X11/qt4-linked binaries that I have built. > Both qsynth and > qsampler

Re: [Fink-devel] impossible to use libGLw in Leopard

2007-10-28 Thread Alexander Strange
On Oct 28, 2007, at 2:16 PM, Jack Howarth wrote: > Martin, >Some of the linker behavior in Leopard doesn't make any sense at > all. For example if I > modify the molmol makedef to link as follows (which works fine under > Fedora 7 linux)... I think this is a general problem in the new ld

Re: [Fink-devel] Help with debugging mysterious tar error

2007-03-10 Thread Alexander Strange
On Mar 3, 2007, at 3:52 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: > Could those of you who have or had the dpkg-deb failure caused by > tar-1.16.1 claiming > > "file changed as we read it" > > please help with debugging this? Based on the outcome of these > tests, we should be able to decide whether we ne

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Strange freetype dependency / gimp2 on i386 needs --disable-mmx

2006-03-16 Thread Alexander Strange
On Mar 16, 2006, at 4:05 PM, Martin Costabel wrote: If you do this to fontconfig2-dev, you will break a whole bunch of other packages that now all (build-)depend on fontconfig2-dev and freetype219. I can remove fontconfig2-dev as well (and have done so in experimental), as x.org's is fin

[Fink-devel] Re: Strange freetype dependency / gimp2 on i386 needs --disable-mmx

2006-03-16 Thread Alexander Strange
On Mar 15, 2006, at 12:02 PM, ASARI Takashi wrote: Hi, libtool: link: cannot find the library `/sw/lib/freetype219/lib/ libfreetype.la' Full log is here: http://fink.sodan.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~asari/mito/gimp2.kikyo.log ( sorry for my LANG set to ja_JP.UTF-8.. ) I had installed freetype219-

Re: [Fink-devel] 235 packages?

2005-06-24 Thread Alexander Strange
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 easy to do it the right way, and even if it doesn't you could at least b

Re: [Fink-devel] license question

2005-05-06 Thread Alexander Strange
On May 6, 2005, at 8:38 PM, Koen van der Drift wrote: Guys, you confuse me :) Should I use BSD or not, or something else? thanks, - Koen. The licensing documentation says "BSD - for BSD-style licenses. This includes the so-called "original" BSD license, the "modified" BSD license and the MIT lice

Re: [Fink-devel] license question

2005-05-02 Thread Alexander Strange
On May 2, 2005, at 7:54 PM, Koen van der Drift wrote: Hi, What license-type should I put in the info file for this text: /* * Copyright (c) Medical Research Council 1994. All rights reserved. * * Permission to use, copy, modify and distribute this software and its * documentation for any purp

Re: [Fink-devel] Fink gimp-2.0

2005-03-29 Thread Alexander Strange
(BOn Mar 29, 2005, at 8:38 AM, $BH~I'(B $BGO>l(B wrote: (B (B> Alexander, (B> (B> After clean-install of Panther (and updated to 10.3.8), I installed (B> Fink and unstable version of gimp2 (2.0.0-5) via Fink. It compiled, (B> but the first run says I have fontconfig 1.0.2 and need font

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: dists/10.3/unstable/main/finkinfo/graphics gimp2.info,1.16,1.17

2005-03-08 Thread Alexander Strange
On Mar 8, 2005, at 4:17 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: This doesn't work with the current freetype packages. If you link to freetype219, you have to depend on freetype219-shlibs. Why does freetype219 have a different layout than freetype2-hinting-2.1.9? [] BuildDepends: << -libpng3, libjpeg, libtif

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: [Fink-users] gimp2 configure error

2005-03-08 Thread Alexander Strange
On Mar 8, 2005, at 3:29 AM, Koen van der Drift wrote: On Mar 6, 2005, at 7:13 PM, Alexander Strange wrote: No, it shouldn't be building the svg plugin at all, as that should be disabled unless -svg is built. Could it be that it builds the svg plugin in anyway when it finds (one o

[Fink-devel] Re: [Fink-users] gimp2 configure error

2005-03-06 Thread Alexander Strange
On Mar 6, 2005, at 6:47 PM, Koen van der Drift wrote: libgsf-1.la is in libgsf-dev, which was not installed at that moment. I guess it should be a (build) depends? No, it shouldn't be building the svg plugin at all, as that should be disabled unless -svg is built. There's a different problem; the

Re: [Fink-devel] strange terminal output after fink commands

2005-03-02 Thread Alexander Strange
On Mar 1, 2005, at 9:06 PM, Koen van der Drift wrote: On Mar 1, 2005, at 9:01 PM, Alexander K. Hansen wrote: But how about non-fink commands? I tested a few non-fink commands (ls, apt-get update, locate), and it doesn't happen. - Koen. The other commands would have no reason to use DivX. Does Qu

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Packages mentioning /sw/ by name in unstable

2005-02-27 Thread Alexander Strange
On Feb 27, 2005, at 3:12 PM, Blair Zajac wrote: Where are you seeing this? In CVS: $ find . -name grass\* | xargs grep sw finds nothing. Regards, Blair I was accidentally using an older copy of the CVS checkout; this was fixed in CVS revision 1.3. Rerunning the search: [newibook:/sw/fink/10.3] a

Re: [Fink-devel] Packages mentioning /sw/ by name in unstable

2005-02-26 Thread Alexander Strange
On Feb 27, 2005, at 12:48 AM, Alexander Strange wrote: * Jeffrey Whitaker scilab-atlas scilab Looking at these two again, they are actually correct (although not structured in the usual way). --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide

[Fink-devel] Packages mentioning /sw/ by name in unstable

2005-02-26 Thread Alexander Strange
There are currently four packages in unstable that mention /sw/ instead of %p where it might cause the build to error out: * Jeremy Higgs ettercap-ssl * Blair Zajac grass5.7 * Jeffrey Whitaker scilab-atlas scilab Besides that, there are many more packages that use /sw/ specifically in their Desc

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] wxWidgets vs. wxMac

2005-02-19 Thread Alexander Strange
On Feb 19, 2005, at 2:47 AM, Trevor Harmon wrote: To prevent this from happening, I'm wondering what could be done. Could a virtual package be added, called wxWidgets, that maps to wxMac? Or perhaps there's some mechanism in Fink for specifying package aliases/synonyms? For instance, the Fink da

Re: gcc4 package (was Re: [Fink-devel] SOLVED: gcc unlinks /dev/null)

2005-02-11 Thread Alexander Strange
On Feb 11, 2005, at 10:58 AM, Jeff Whitaker wrote: I don't really know, I'm hoping others will hop in on this thread. I know Alexander Strange has been building gccs from the apple ppc branch, maybe a fink gcc4 package should come from there? Hmm - I'd like to hear about that

Re: [Fink-devel] Request for Comments: freetype2{-hinting,}{-shlibs,-dev,}-2.1.9 upgrade

2005-02-02 Thread Alexander Strange
On Feb 3, 2005, at 1:34 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: I have no idea if this is really something that is used by applications at all, but I guess it wouldn't have been introduced if it were not somehow useful. The thing is that the freetype (as opposed to X11) releases of freetype, including freety

Re: [Fink-devel] hooray! I built my first package

2004-11-01 Thread Alexander Strange
On Nov 1, 2004, at 9:41 PM, Mark Brethen wrote: Should I include a script to do that? I'd suggest looking at some other packages that use "xfontpath". --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Sybase ASE Linux Express Edition - download now for FREE

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Fink's Package LAME

2004-10-04 Thread Alexander Strange
On Oct 4, 2004, at 9:21 PM, Blair Zajac wrote: Well, there doesn't appear to be a consensus amongst the audio experts on the 3.93.1 versus 3.96.1. Here are some threads on this: 3.96 was the choice for the last major listening test. In any case, we should be trusting the LAME developers to know

Re: [Fink-devel] libtool and dynamic libraries

2004-08-24 Thread Alexander Strange
On Aug 24, 2004, at 7:44 PM, Dale Grover wrote: One key seems to be which "libtool" is in fact used; once I learn how to change what libtool is called by gcc, it should be clearer. (A previous reply suggests this would be a good path, but I'm unclear on the process.) At the moment the Apple li

[Fink-devel] 10.4 and the profile.d system

2004-07-12 Thread Alexander Strange
Jordan Hubbard tossed around an idea of adding a hook directory to OS X and Darwin on IRC tonight that would be the equivalent of startup items for the user's login shells; software that wanted to add new things such as path items to the environment would be able to add files into it which woul

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: A suggestion

2004-07-02 Thread Alexander Strange
On Jul 2, 2004, at 1:55 PM, Corey Halpin wrote: Cool. It didn't occur to me to look for (and through) people's experimental directories. If I were looking for your experimental dir, would I be able to find it in cvs somewhere? Or does it just live in your sandbox on your machine? thank yo

[Fink-devel] Fwd: gimp2-2.0.0-2

2004-06-04 Thread Alexander Strange
rwarded message: From: Louis Zulli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: June 4, 2004 10:25:38 AM EDT To: Alexander Strange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: gimp2-2.0.0-2 Thanks for the prompt reply and the suggested fix. Perhaps the offending file was created when I used Gerben Wierda's i-Inst

Re: [Fink-devel] Patch and PatchScript ignored

2004-05-31 Thread Alexander Strange
On May 31, 2004, at 10:10 PM, Rohan Lloyd wrote: You're not the only one. I get exactly the same results here. -- Rohan Lloyd Oh, now it's missing for me too. It must have disappeared when I went from 0.20.1.cvs to 0.20.2. --- This SF.Net email

Re: [Fink-devel] Patch and PatchScript ignored

2004-05-31 Thread Alexander Strange
On May 31, 2004, at 9:58 PM, Nigel Stanger wrote: On 1/6/2004 1:37 PM, Alexander Strange at [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: It's easier to do 'fink dumpinfo '; this prints the revision and path to .info file. Huh?!? nuevorico> fink dumpinfo pcrs0 fink: unknown command "dumpi

Re: [Fink-devel] Patch and PatchScript ignored

2004-05-31 Thread Alexander Strange
On May 31, 2004, at 9:07 PM, Ben Hines wrote: Also don't know if you tried it but you can usually just run 'fink index' to kick the indexer sometimes. But upping the rev is a good way to tell what fink is actually using. -Ben It's easier to do 'fink dumpinfo '; this prints the revision and pat

Re: [Fink-devel] package hijacking

2004-05-29 Thread Alexander Strange
On May 29, 2004, at 5:01 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: isn't there a policy on taking over another's package? i just noticed that my rzip package was updated and maintainership was changed without so much as an email or posting to fink-devel. This make me much less inclined to create any new pa

Re: [Fink-devel] gimp2 errors

2004-04-10 Thread Alexander Strange
On Apr 10, 2004, at 8:26 AM, Koen van der Drift wrote: Hi, I got the following error during the configure phase: checking for GLIB - version >= 2.2.0... no *** Could not run GLIB test program, checking why... *** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file config.log for the *** ex

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: How to test the two variants of a package?

2004-04-08 Thread Alexander Strange
On Apr 8, 2004, at 4:57 PM, Daniel E. Macks wrote: Package: gimp%type_pkg[-noprint] Type: -noprint (boolean) Conflicts: gimp, gimp-noprint Replaces: gimp, gimp-noprint This will definitely be a lot of typing, since each of those also has the -svg variant. An easier way would be nice, but I

Re: [Fink-devel] How to test the two variants of a package?

2004-04-08 Thread Alexander Strange
On Apr 7, 2004, at 7:42 PM, David H. wrote: No, it is not naive at all. I (and the core team as well as others) have been working the past 16 months to get procedures like this into place and for some things that works pretty well. Until now there has not really been a need for a strict package

Re: [Fink-devel] Which fink with gimp2?

2004-04-04 Thread Alexander Strange
On Apr 4, 2004, at 9:40 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: "Alexander" == Alexander Strange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Alexander> I'm using package variants which don't work with the released Alexander> 0.19.2. You'll have to wait until 0.20.0 or use CVS HEAD. B

Re: [Fink-devel] Which fink with gimp2?

2004-04-04 Thread Alexander Strange
On Apr 4, 2004, at 8:00 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: Todd Heidesch wrote: Yes, a few line breaks. Also, it doesn't work with fink 0.19.2. I'm using package variants which don't work with the released 0.19.2. You'll have to wait until 0.20.0 or use CVS HEAD. OK, I fixed the linebreaks in CVS while

Re: [Fink-devel] gimp-app

2004-03-30 Thread Alexander Strange
On Mar 30, 2004, at 6:07 PM, Martin Costabel wrote: Has anyone had a look at http://gimp-app.sourceforge.net/ ? Did this guy ask what the Fink team thinks about such rip-offs? To my untrained eye at least, this kind of binary-only distribution looks like a flagrant violation of the GPL. The Gimp

Re: [Fink-devel] could someone help me check this NEW url?

2004-03-21 Thread Alexander Strange
On Mar 21, 2004, at 10:46 PM, James Gibbs wrote: jgibbs% ping ftp.ysbl.york.ac.uk/ ping: unknown host ftp.ysbl.york.ac.uk/ I'm using just the default Comcast DNS. Maybe you should take the / out ;) I thought we were allowed to put files on the darwinports server as a primary source. Anyone know a

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: binary release plans

2004-03-01 Thread Alexander Strange
On Mar 1, 2004, at 3:33 AM, Daniel Macks wrote: Did you take the approach I was going to do, or something else? Either way, if you want additional eyes looking it over before committing, post it here (if it's short:) or email me. Or commit it and we'll all just see it in fink-commits... dan LAME

Re: lynx-cookies & such (was Re: [Fink-devel] fink feature request: finicky-install)

2004-02-03 Thread Alexander Strange
This sounds a lot like portage. On Feb 3, 2004, at 8:46 PM, Joe Corneli wrote: You hit the nail on the head there. It isn't just the compile-time options, but several details of the lynx configuration file that need to be fiddled with. However, the problem with making a new package is we'd proba

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: dists/10.3/unstable/main/finkinfo/x11 gimp-freefonts-0.10-2.info,NONE,1.1 gimp-sharefonts-0.10-2.info,NONE,1.1

2004-01-22 Thread Alexander Strange
On Jan 22, 2004, at 10:54 PM, Ben Hines wrote: On Jan 21, 2004, at 11:49 PM, Alexander Strange wrote: install -d -m 755 %d`%p/bin/xfontpath basedir`/freefont install -c -m 644 * %d`%p/bin/xfontpath basedir`/freefont I don't think this is legal.. it will make different .deb

Re: [Fink-devel] Non distributable source files

2004-01-17 Thread Alexander Strange
On Jan 17, 2004, at 1:58 AM, Rohan Lloyd wrote: I have made a fink package for jsr14 (prototype implementation of Java Generics) https://sourceforge.net/tracker/? func=detail&atid=414256&aid=860837&group_id=17203 The source for this package is freely (as in beer) available from Sun, but

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: fink/perlmod/Fink VirtPackage.pm,1.29,1.30

2004-01-01 Thread Alexander Strange
On Jan 1, 2004, at 11:07 AM, Benjamin Reed wrote: Alexander Strange wrote: Update of /cvsroot/fink/fink/perlmod/Fink In directory sc8-pr-cvs1:/tmp/cvs-serv12753/perlmod/Fink Modified Files: VirtPackage.pm Log Message: Virtual package for Apple's incomplete gimp-print install. O

Re: [Fink-devel] Fwd: tads on Panther

2003-12-22 Thread Alexander Strange
On Dec 23, 2003, at 1:38 AM, Kyle Moffett wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've not received a response from Alexander, so I'm forwarding this on to the list. If you get this one Alexander, could you please fix it? Otherwise, could somebody else with CVS access make the cha

Re: [Fink-devel] New GTK breaks Ethereal

2003-12-12 Thread Alexander Strange
On Dec 12, 2003, at 4:02 AM, Gary Kerbaugh wrote: I'm still getting the "multiple definitions" warnings. Below is a subset of the list. You'll note that gtk_clist is involve in most of them and here is one line from the Ethereal crash log: That looks to me like Ethereal implemented it inter

Re: [Fink-devel] New GTK breaks Ethereal

2003-12-11 Thread Alexander Strange
On Dec 11, 2003, at 10:25 AM, Gary Kerbaugh wrote: Hi Guys, My last update-all updated GTK and, I believe GTK2. I no longer have the scrollback so I can't provide any details of that but I know that the following libraries are new: /sw/lib/libgtk-1.2.0.9.1.dylib /sw/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.0.20

Re: I am giving this 24 hours -> (Re: [Fink-devel] Is it ok to remove phpmyadmin and pws from the web-module?)

2003-12-09 Thread Alexander Strange
On Dec 9, 2003, at 1:49 AM, D. Höhn wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Darian Lanx wrote: | Hello | | I am a bit on the "cleaning trip". | Is the subdirectory pws or phpmyadmin in the web module still in use? | Thank you | | -d | Just a follow up to my own mail. Since no on

Re: [Fink-devel] libmikmod-3.1.10-2

2003-12-04 Thread Alexander Strange
On Dec 4, 2003, at 1:48 PM, John Davidorff Pell wrote: When building, libmikmod-3.1.10-2 calls gcc with "-pthread" which results in numerous warnings. It works, but I think that changing it to "-lpthread" would make it happier. Whoever is in charge of this, could you take a look? Thanx. JP -lp

Re: [Fink-devel] -fast flag ?

2003-11-21 Thread Alexander Strange
On Nov 20, 2003, at 3:10 PM, Jack Howarth wrote: Jean-Francois, I doubt we will ever want to set the -mcpu flag since that would limit the binaries however setting the -mtune flag would be sensible. Jack -mcpu doesn't limit anything on PPC except for -mcpu=970. --

Re: [Fink-devel] sdl-mixer-1.2.5-11 build fails

2003-11-19 Thread Alexander Strange
On Nov 19, 2003, at 6:06 PM, James Gibbs wrote: gcc -dynamiclib -undefined dynamic_lookup -o .libs/libSDL_mixer-1.2.0.2.3.dylib load_aiff.lo load_voc.lo load_ogg.lo mixer.lo music.lo music_cmd.lo music_ogg.lo wavestream.lo effect_position.lo effect_stereoreverse.lo effects_internal.lo -all

Re: [Fink-devel] mv trailing slashes bug solved

2003-11-16 Thread Alexander Strange
On Nov 16, 2003, at 2:24 AM, James Gibbs wrote: Martin Costabel suggested to me that a kext may be to blame for the mv trailing slashes bug. In my system preferences, the only "haxie" I have is Stuffit Archive Via Rename aka Stuffit AVR. It is part of Stuffit Deluxe 8.0. It allows one to stuff

Re: [Fink-devel] Lame isn't optimized for G4s, and certainly could be...

2003-11-13 Thread Alexander Strange
On Nov 13, 2003, at 1:38 AM, Gordon Mackenzie wrote: It's so slow when compared to the compiled versions I've found elsewhere for the Mac. I have found an increase of about 200% (fink-lame speed of 0.7 versus altivec-compiled-lame of 2.2/2.3) when lame is compiled as these fellows have

Re: [Fink-devel] fink run *not* as root

2003-10-10 Thread Alexander Strange
On Oct 10, 2003, at 6:48 PM, David R. Morrison wrote: Sure, here's some feedback. First, let's examine where root is actually needed in fink. We certainly don't need to be root to run "make" on a package. Since fink directs "make install" to a temporary installation directory, we don't need to

Re: [Fink-devel] the gcc 3.3 upgrade

2003-08-17 Thread Alexander Strange
On Sunday, August 17, 2003, at 06:38 PM, David R. Morrison wrote: One thing I forgot to say. Even with my new strategy, we need to have fink verify that the correct version of gcc has been selected when compiling is being done. The overwhelming opinion on IRC last night was that fink should N

[Fink-devel] Re: failure building gtk-perl-pm560-0.7009-1

2003-08-17 Thread Alexander Strange
On Sunday, August 17, 2003, at 01:20 PM, Neil Spring wrote: a) "chmod -R a+rX Gtk-Perl-0.7009" after untarring to make it easier to investigate build failures without having to sudo bash or repeatedly chmod. This is more of a whole-fink thing than something to do in one package. b) when tools

Re: [Fink-devel] Porting question

2003-07-08 Thread Alexander Strange
On Tuesday, July 8, 2003, at 12:35 AM, Paul Swenson wrote: After setting the environment variables as specified on this web page, a manual ./configure && make build errored out in the same way that the automated fink build did (as I expected it would). This doesn't really help my dilemma, as I ne

Re: [Fink-devel] trying to reach beren12

2003-06-20 Thread alexander . strange
> has someone a working e-mail from > > Chris Zubrzycki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > i sent about 4 mails in the last days and only get a message not > deliverable message back ... > > BTW: what is the policy when a maintainer can't be reached for about 3 > months. - can such a package be taken over by

[Fink-devel] Re: lynx-2.8.4-2

2003-06-10 Thread alexander . strange
> I have been unable to install the subject package. Here is the > output... > > > Reading Package Lists... > Building Dependency Tree... > The following NEW packages will be installed: >lynx > 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > Need to get 1327kB of arc

Re: [Fink-devel] Feel better, lose we1ght, and signs of aging.

2003-03-30 Thread Alexander Strange
No idea, but that email was sent from bays030-0701-dhcp221.bu.edu. I think someone's going to be in trouble :) On Sunday, March 30, 2003, at 01:10 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: Are they saying we're all sickly, fat, and haggard? --- This SF.net

Re: [Fink-devel] XHTML DTDs, SGML catalogs and freetype2

2003-03-28 Thread Alexander Strange
On Friday, March 28, 2003, at 05:20 PM, Damien Pollet wrote: Finally while doing a fink update-all, freetype2-hinting failed... log follows. Cheers, Damien This has been fixed. --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: The Definitive IT

[Fink-devel] O'Reilly Mac OS X Innovators Contest

2003-03-15 Thread Alexander Strange
http://www.macdevcenter.com/mac/developer/ Unfortunately, this seems more targeted towards projects with one main author. I suppose FinkCommander or some other related applications (are there any?) could always try to enter. --- This SF.net

Re: [Fink-devel] how to set .cshrc

2003-03-14 Thread Alexander Strange
On Friday, March 14, 2003, at 03:13 PM, David R. Morrison wrote: Anybody want to suggest a tool for creating this .app painlessly? -- Dave It could easily be done in Cocoa. --- This SF.net email is sponsored by:Crypto Challenge is now open

Re: [Fink-devel] Freetype2 X and fink version differences

2003-03-11 Thread Alexander Strange
On Tuesday, March 11, 2003, at 07:30 AM, Damian Steer wrote: Using the XFree86 supplied freetype2. This (you will notice) is missing out characters randomly - but that's a different issue, I think. The odd thing is is finds all the fonts (AFAICT). XFree86 uses the 'ftmac' support in FreeType2, whi

Re: [Fink-devel] Fink distfiles mirror now up

2003-03-10 Thread Alexander Strange
On Monday, March 10, 2003, at 04:39 PM, Martin Costabel wrote: ls *tar.gz |xargs file |grep -v gzip on this directory. I will probably generalize that to any file that doesn't match the Source-MD5. --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:Thi

[Fink-devel] Fink distfiles mirror now up

2003-03-09 Thread Alexander Strange
There is now a complete mirror of the Fink package sources available. It's sharing space with DarwinPorts on http://distfiles.opendarwin.org/ and I would appreciate more mirrors of it. You can rsync at rsync://rsync.opendarwin.org/distfiles, and running it daily at 1 PM Pacific Standard Time is

Re: [Fink-devel] packages KDE 3.1 needs before a stable move

2003-03-09 Thread Alexander Strange
On Sunday, March 9, 2003, at 10:03 AM, Benjamin Reed wrote: I tried moving KDE to stable, but a number of deps had been added since last putting KDE there. The following packages are needed by KDE for me to move it to stable: freetype2-hinting This should be fine to move, although I have no

Re: [Fink-devel] Packages with bad MD5s

2003-03-08 Thread Alexander Strange
On Saturday, March 8, 2003, at 08:37 PM, Alexander Strange wrote: On Saturday, March 8, 2003, at 08:24 PM, Max Horn wrote: Yes libxml and siag have correct MD5s for me here, too. Max I get these MD5s: 80169faebe7bca9fd531b53b6c5d3ed5 in the .info file 624519aaf9149142cd87f79e1ac4a58c in the

Re: [Fink-devel] Packages with bad MD5s

2003-03-08 Thread Alexander Strange
On Saturday, March 8, 2003, at 08:24 PM, Max Horn wrote: Yes libxml and siag have correct MD5s for me here, too. Max I get these MD5s: 80169faebe7bca9fd531b53b6c5d3ed5 in the .info file 624519aaf9149142cd87f79e1ac4a58c in the tarball. It might be a mirroring issue; I'll try redownloading it. --

Re: [Fink-devel] Packages with bad MD5s

2003-03-08 Thread Alexander Strange
On Saturday, March 8, 2003, at 08:10 PM, Martin Costabel wrote: Alexander Strange wrote: [] Checksum of tarball /Users/feanor/sw/src/siag-3.5.2.tar.gz of package siag-3.5.2-5 is incorrect. Does your script perhaps report a bad md5sum also when the source download fails? The copies of siag

[Fink-devel] Packages with bad MD5s

2003-03-07 Thread Alexander Strange
The following "unstable" packages have bad checksums: Checksum of tarball /Users/feanor/sw/src/Net-IP-Match-0.01.tar.gz of package net-ip-match-pm-0.01-1 is incorrect. Checksum of tarball /Users/feanor/sw/src/ncbitools-2.2.5.tar.gz of package ncbitools-2.2.5-2 is incorrect. Checksum of tarball /U

[Fink-devel] Packages with bad URLs

2003-03-05 Thread Alexander Strange
These packages are failing to download on my mirror setup (it has passive FTP off, which explains qt2) gimp-* is mine, and I will fix them: file download failed for python-pam_0.4.2-6.tar.gz of package python-pam-0.4.2-1 file download failed for pnet-0.4.8.tar.gz of package pnet-0.4.8-1 file do

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: fink mirror patch

2003-03-04 Thread Alexander Strange
On Tuesday, March 4, 2003, at 06:48 PM, Matthias Neeracher wrote: Ben Hines <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am currently testing my fink mirror patch. It adds a "fink" mirror that is intended to hold a mirror of every source tarball, so there will no longer be any breaking URLs. Sounds like a great i

Re: [Fink-devel] fink mirror patch

2003-03-04 Thread Alexander Strange
On Tuesday, March 4, 2003, at 12:39 AM, Ben Hines wrote: - autosync of sources: Need a machine running "fink selfupdate-cvs; fink fetch-all; rsync to server" every 10 minutes or something similar. Any ideas there? OpenDarwin is going to help with this. Only need one machine to do that, the othe

Re: [Fink-devel] fink mirror patch

2003-03-03 Thread Alexander Strange
On Tuesday, March 4, 2003, at 12:39 AM, Ben Hines wrote: autosync of sources: Need a machine running "fink selfupdate-cvs; fink fetch-all; rsync to server" every 10 minutes or something similar. Any ideas there? OpenDarwin is going to help with this. Only need one machine to do that, the other

Re: [Fink-devel] Prebinding: Got Slid? revisited

2003-02-11 Thread Alexander Strange
On Tuesday, February 11, 2003, at 02:41 PM, Carsten Klapp wrote: Hehe, well at least with redo_prebinding the entire disk isn't scanned like update_prebinding does. (BTW I think in 10.2 the installer's rebinding is a little quicker, maybe it only calls redo_prebinding now.) Anyway... It stil

Re: [Fink-devel] Virex ships/overwrites fink libraries

2003-02-08 Thread Alexander Strange
'fink reinstall openssl-shlibs dlcompat-shlibs curl-ssl-shlibs' should do it, I believe. Although it might break Virex. On Saturday, February 8, 2003, at 09:06 AM, Max Horn wrote: There are various people on fink-beginners who already installed this and ask for help. Maybe we can enhance the ne

Re: [Fink-devel] Virex ships/overwrites fink libraries

2003-02-07 Thread Alexander Strange
On Friday, February 7, 2003, at 09:12 PM, Ben Hines wrote: ./sw/lib/libdl.0.dylib 100644 0/8015124 4193639260 'otool -LV' comparisons with the latest unstable 'dlcompat-shlibs' package: Virex's: time stamp 1031953606 Fri Sep 13 14:46:46 2002 Latest: time stamp 1037500923 Sat Nov 16 2

[Fink-devel] Fwd: XFree86 4.2.99.901 (4.3.0 RC 1)

2003-02-07 Thread Alexander Strange
Begin forwarded message: From: Torrey Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri Feb 7, 2003 2:02:44 AM US/Eastern To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: XFree86 4.2.99.901 (4.3.0 RC 1) XFree86 4.2.99.901 is a pre-release snapshot of XFree86 4.3.0. This snapshot is r

Re: [Fink-devel] XFree86 4.3.0 close

2003-01-31 Thread Alexander Strange
On Friday, January 31, 2003, at 08:28 PM, Benjamin Reed wrote: As of the last snapshots, things have worked pretty good as far as backwards-compatibility with software built against xfree86 4.2, but keep in mind that if you plan on testing this, and you build something against it, it won't wor

Re: [Fink-devel] unneeded requirements

2003-01-31 Thread Alexander Strange
On Friday, January 31, 2003, at 04:51 PM, James Gibbs wrote: If I am creating a package and the program adds features if compiled with library N, should I automatically make it a build dependency? It should be a dependency, yes. We try to make packages produce the same thing on every platform

Re: [Fink-devel] On dependency engines

2003-01-31 Thread Alexander Strange
On Friday, January 31, 2003, at 07:24 AM, David wrote: oh yes please.. C baby ;) Maybe I can start optimising some of the linking and calculating and node moving in asm *drool* -d :) - Face me and you shall surely perish. Hmm, I might be able to do some of that... I know enough PPC assembl

[Fink-devel] Fwd: gimp-1.2.3-10

2003-01-30 Thread Alexander Strange
Begin forwarded message: From: brad allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed Jan 29, 2003 11:06:06 PM US/Eastern To: Alexander Strange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: gimp-1.2.3-10 Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Alexander Strange wrote: On Wednesday, January

Re: [Fink-devel] downloading source via CVS

2003-01-27 Thread Alexander Strange
On Monday, January 27, 2003, at 07:18 AM, Max Horn wrote: To further clarify this, no package that does invoke CVS will be accepted into the official fink distro. Cheers, Max The 'wtf' package does this. --- This SF.NET email is sponsore

Re: [Fink-devel] GNUStep

2003-01-24 Thread Alexander Strange
On Friday, January 24, 2003, at 03:54 PM, John Davidorff Pell wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Do any of our friendly fink developers out there have any plans to add a GNUStep package? If so, I'd like to help, if not, then would anyone like to help me? JP I tried some, b

[Fink-devel] Grammar error in news

2003-01-18 Thread Alexander Strange
At the beginning of the news item announcing RSS feeds: Thanks to Benjamin Reed, it is now possible to receive RSS 1.0 Feeds that contain a lot of valuable information There should be a period at the end of that sentence. I could fix it, but emailing fink-devel is much faster than installing libx

Re: [Fink-devel] Concerning fink.css..

2003-01-16 Thread Alexander Strange
On Thursday, January 16, 2003, at 09:54 AM, Max Horn wrote: I definitly do *not* want to support v3 or v4 browsers in the sense that I care whether the page looks good to them or not. Fifth generation it is. lynx/links will just not display the CSS, and only render the HTML, which is perfectly

Re: [Fink-devel] domain, need reply from key team at very least

2003-01-10 Thread Alexander Strange
On Friday, January 10, 2003, at 10:36 AM, Justin Hallett wrote: what about finkhq both de and com are avail... finkhq.de was my first though since both Chris and Max are from de it seems only right to honor them and there country. or finkhq.com it we want to be in the .com I think .org is avai

Re: [Fink-devel] Who should Provide X11 ?

2003-01-07 Thread Alexander Strange
On Tuesday, January 7, 2003, at 04:09 AM, Charles McCathieNevile wrote: Ther are a couple of different possiblities for where we pay... at the moment we save 4MB on the default install. This is not as trivial as people make out - my 6GB drive is generally full, and I actively look at anything

Re: [Fink-devel] bundle-gnome-1.4-13

2002-12-28 Thread Alexander Strange
ke a bug in GCC. -- Alexander Strange "...we might want to remember that the majority of America believes they can talk to an invisible man every Sunday." -- A poster to slashdot.org --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Wel

Re: [Fink-devel] The very first, general Fink Survey, PLEASE help!

2002-12-16 Thread Alexander Strange
On Monday, December 16, 2002, at 06:38 PM, Patrick Näf wrote: - my occupation Easy. If there's a lot of graphical people working on it, I have more of a motivation to package more GiMP stuff. If there's more developers, I have a motivation to package Red Hat Source Navigator, etc. And these

Re: [Fink-devel] sablotron

2002-12-12 Thread Alexander Strange
Compile with 'g++' instead of 'gcc', or add -lstdc++ . On Thursday, December 12, 2002, at 09:43 PM, S Woodside wrote: hi there, I hope this list is an OK place to post this request. I'm trying to port sablotron to OS X 10.2. As far as I can tell, it's not been discussed here before. I've got

Re: [Fink-devel] dep. freetype2{,-hinting} missing in some packages

2002-12-12 Thread Alexander Strange
agick,...) thomas They're using improper versioned dependencies, probably. freetype2-hinting will be obsolete as soon as we make a freetype2-2.1.3 package, IIRC. -- Alexander Strange "...we might want to remember that the majority of America believes they can talk to an invisible m

Re: [Fink-devel] 'fink update-all' stopped before finished

2002-12-01 Thread Alexander Strange
On Sunday, December 1, 2002, at 03:41 PM, Kyle Moffett wrote: The subject line says it all: fink selfupdate-cvs [...CVS updating...] fink list | grep '(i)' # <-- This should be available as 'fink listold' or something It may be; check 'fink list --help'. (note: that should be in the man pa

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