Re: [Fink-devel] Move gcc46 to 10.5/stable branches ?

2011-09-15 Thread David R. Morrison
On Sep 15, 2011, at 7:05 AM, Sébastien Maret wrote: Le 15 sept. 2011 à 15:51, Alexander Hansen a écrit : We probably don't want just to dump packages into stable without doing a little testing to make sure they all actually work. ;-) One option would be something like the following:

Re: [Fink-devel] gc-7-1001 and Lion

2011-07-22 Thread David Fang
Also, I confirmed that InfoTest on powerpc-darwin8 passes its tests, but with some (perhaps expected?) noise: http://paste.lisp.org/display/123443 Ok for me to update gc in 10.4-EOL, with: InfoTest: TestScript: make -k check || exit 2 ? Fang Dave, FYI, David Fang asked me to test gc under

Re: [Fink-devel] 10.4-EOL, 10.5(aka 10.4), 10.7 and revision coherency

2011-07-21 Thread David R. Morrison
Jack, Many of our package maintainers will now be faced with trying to maintain a package across several distributions, and in cases where there doesn't need to be a difference, the maintenance is easier if the foo.info files are identical. So generally, copying the same version, revision,

Re: [Fink-devel] 10.4-EOL, 10.5(aka 10.4), 10.7 and revision coherency

2011-07-21 Thread David R. Morrison
, Jul 21, 2011 at 09:45:05AM -0700, David R. Morrison wrote: Jack, Many of our package maintainers will now be faced with trying to maintain a package across several distributions, and in cases where there doesn't need to be a difference, the maintenance is easier if the foo.info files

[Fink-devel] perl, python, ruby, etc.

2011-07-21 Thread David R. Morrison
In a discussion on irc this morning, there was a general consensus to bring Python 2.6 and 2.7 forward to 10.7, but not to bring Python 2.5 forward. I subsequently put the python26 and python27 packages into the 10.7 tree. What about perl? Should we bring perl 5.8.8 forward, or leave it out?

Re: [Fink-devel] perl, python, ruby, etc.

2011-07-21 Thread David R. Morrison
21, 2011, at 11:16 AM, Daniel Macks wrote: On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 11:00:03 -0700, David R. Morrison wrote: In a discussion on irc this morning, there was a general consensus to bring Python 2.6 and 2.7 forward to 10.7, but not to bring Python 2.5 forward. I subsequently put the python26

[Fink-devel] flag-sort (was: Fwd: Problem Building Newest Version of transfig-graphicx)

2011-07-19 Thread David R. Morrison
There was a recent revision to the transfig package which introduced the use of fink's flag-sort package. However, it seems to have a problem on 10.6: see below. Anybody have any advice about it? -- Dave Begin forwarded message: From: Densmore, Jeffery D j...@lanl.gov Date: July 19,

[Fink-devel] Fwd: flag-sort

2011-07-19 Thread David R. Morrison
Jeffery: please see the question at the bottom: Begin forwarded message: From: Alexander Hansen alexanderk.han...@gmail.com Date: July 19, 2011 1:01:21 PM PDT To: David R. Morrison d...@finkproject.org Cc: Fink fink-devel fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, j...@lanl.gov Subject: Re: [Fink

Re: [Fink-devel] Can somebody please explain 10.4-EOL ?

2011-07-11 Thread David R. Morrison
Hi Max, my apologies. This only got half-implmented last night and I was going to send out an email after it was finished, but I can explain it now. Our strategy for handling EOL for 10.4 is to place copies of all .info/.patch files into this 10.4-EOL subdirectory of finkinfo, and then to

Re: [Fink-devel] Overhauling running X11, draft of Chapter 2.

2011-06-03 Thread David Lowe
On 3 Jun, 2011, at 11:33 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote: I wouldn't mind adding information about 10.5 and 10.6, but I didn't happen to have the release dates (or the X.org version for the stock 10.5 X11). On the other hand, maybe the historical development doesn't really matter after 10.3,

Re: [Fink-devel] latest Buildworld results (2010-08-14)

2011-04-26 Thread David Reiser
of known vulnerabilities? I'll package the latest libtasn1 and see what comes up as the libversion. Then I'll take a look at libgcrypt and libgpg-error. The other 4 I'll leave for someone else. Dave -- David Reiser dbrei...@earthlink.net

Re: [Fink-devel] Drafts for a couple of policy addenda

2011-04-20 Thread David R. Morrison
Sounds good to me. -- Dave On Apr 20, 2011, at 12:16 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 3.7 Source Policy Sources should normally be downloaded from the location(s) that the upstream developer(s) use, and any modifications for Fink should be

Re: [Fink-devel] using svn to pull source

2011-04-13 Thread David R. Morrison
The problem with this approach is that it short-circuits one of Fink's security features (the checking of MD5sum for source files) and it also short-circuits Fink's storage of source files in its own archive to guard against the day when the source file is no longer available from the original

Re: [Fink-devel] [PPL-devel] ppl-0.10.2 check thorough test fail

2011-04-01 Thread David Fang
Il 29/03/2011 02:39, David Fang ha scritto: Hello, With ppl-0.10.2, several Mac OS X fink users (including myself) have observed the following single test failure on 10.5 and 10.6, using Apple's gcc-4.2, arch i686-apple-darwin{9,10}, with thorough tests enabled: /usr/bin/grep -E

Re: [Fink-devel] [PPL-devel] ppl-0.10.2 check thorough test fail

2011-04-01 Thread David Fang
). Enea. That's good to know that ppl is doing its part of the work 'correctly'. Anything else I can test for you? Fang David Fang http://www.csl.cornell.edu/~fang/ http://www.achronix.com/ -- Create and publish websites

Re: [Fink-devel] [PPL-devel] ppl-0.10.2 check thorough test fail

2011-04-01 Thread David Fang
the same adjustment? Fang David Fang http://www.csl.cornell.edu/~fang/ http://www.achronix.com/ -- Create and publish websites with WebMatrix Use the most popular FREE web apps or write code yourself; WebMatrix provides all

Re: [Fink-devel] Second set of eyes on a tracker entry

2011-03-31 Thread David Lowe
On 31 Mar, 2011, at 10:53 AM, Alexander hansen wrote: It doesn't duplicate any Fink libraries within the app bundle, but on the other hand there's source available from the upstream developer site. My inclination is to say Stop being a lazy little shit and do something that actually

Re: [Fink-devel] [PPL-devel] ppl-0.10.2 check thorough test fail

2011-03-29 Thread David Fang
Hi, Adding fink-devel. On 03/29/11 02:39, David Fang wrote: With ppl-0.10.2, several Mac OS X fink users (including myself) have observed the following single test failure on 10.5 and 10.6, using Apple's gcc-4.2, arch i686-apple-darwin{9,10}, with thorough tests enabled: /usr/bin

Re: [Fink-devel] ppl-0.10.2-4 fails tests on 10.5/i386

2011-03-28 Thread David Fang
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 12:36:44PM -0400, David Fang wrote: On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 10:28:04AM -0400, David Fang wrote: It was originally thought that the failure was due to 10.5 using gcc-4.0, but the test still fails the same way with revision -4 which forces gcc-4.2. For the record, ppl9

Re: [Fink-devel] ppl-0.10.2-4 fails tests on 10.5/i386

2011-03-28 Thread David Fang
, nothing about ppl9. Fang David Fang http://www.csl.cornell.edu/~fang/ http://www.achronix.com/ -- Enable your software for Intel(R) Active Management Technology to meet the growing manageability and security demands of your

Re: [Fink-devel] ppl-0.10.2-4 fails tests on 10.5/i386

2011-03-23 Thread David Fang
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[Fink-devel] Fwd: transfig-graphicx-3.2.5-1009

2011-03-20 Thread David R. Morrison
Hello fink-devel. This user has 10.6 + Xquartz and -- in spite of the builddepends on xmkmf -- has the build fail due to Imake issues, namely Imake.tmpl: No such file or directory Anybody have any suggestions here? -- Dave Begin forwarded message: From: Mattia Vaccari

Re: [Fink-devel] problem installing atlas

2011-03-15 Thread David Fang
and directories currently installed.) Removing fink-buildlock-atlas-3.9.11-1 ... Failed: phase compiling: atlas-3.9.11-1 failed Argyris On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 3:41 PM, David Fang f...@csl.cornell.edu wrote: Can you confirm that your /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/finkinfo/libs/gmp.info /sw/fink

Re: [Fink-devel] Coot Build Problems

2011-03-13 Thread David Lowe
On 28 Feb, 2011, at 12:27 PM, Joe Krahn wrote: David Lowe doctorjlowe at verizon.net writes: Coot is failing to build on Tiger since at least December the 8th [see thread Fink fails installing Coot on the user's list]. GL_FOG_COORD_SRC is an OpenGL macro, an alias

Re: [Fink-devel] guile20 / macos 10.5

2011-02-28 Thread David Fang
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Re: [Fink-devel] GMP build issues

2011-02-25 Thread David Fang
20:52:27 EST 2010; legacy kernel v5 :xnu-1504.9.17/BUILD/obj/RELEASE_I386 i386 On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 6:39 PM, David Fang f...@csl.cornell.edu wrote: Hi, That's rather odd. Can you output for me: % sw_vers % gcc -v % uname -a And what kind of machine you're running? Fang

Re: [Fink-devel] [Fink-beginners] Circular dependency issue withlibgettext3-dev and libgettext8-dev

2011-02-18 Thread David R. Morrison
The original poster showed us a transcript, in which fink tried to do the swapping, but failed, delivering the dreaded circular dependencies error message. -- Dave On Feb 18, 2011, at 10:01 AM, Daniel Macks wrote: On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 17:13:37 0100, Martin Costabel wrote: Alexander

Re: [Fink-devel] numpy-py27 Dependency Problem

2011-02-12 Thread David Lowe
On 9 Feb, 2011, at 5:42 AM, David Lowe wrote: numpy-py27 is now in stable, but it in turn depends upon nose-py27; this is not in stable in any version. Additionally, the same problem exists with setuptools-py27. Sent from my MacBookPro Do hungry crows have ravenous appetites

Re: [Fink-devel] [Fink-beginners] Regarding context.info file

2011-02-07 Thread David R. Morrison
conTeXt is already present in both fink's tetex and texlive packages. The dependency issues with tetex and texlive are very complex, and I do not believe we should accept a separate conTeXt package into fink. -- Dave On Feb 7, 2011, at 8:57 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote: -BEGIN PGP

Re: [Fink-devel] gmp5-64bit-5.0.1-5 build failure

2011-01-18 Thread David Fang
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Re: [Fink-devel] gmp5-64bit-5.0.1-5 build failure

2011-01-18 Thread David Fang
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Re: [Fink-devel] gmp5-64bit-5.0.1-5 build failure

2011-01-17 Thread David Fang
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Re: [Fink-devel] gcc45-4.5.2-1000

2011-01-17 Thread David Fang
in pushing it into fink unstable. https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detailaid=3138732group_id=17203atid=414256 The packaging doesn't include a 10.4 variant due to the unresolved build issues upstream for that target. This also was David Morrison's recommendation for the previous uncommitted

Re: [Fink-devel] cvs login problem

2011-01-16 Thread David Lowe
On 16 Jan, 2011, at 5:22 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: Agreed. I can't edit the wiki at home, though, due to some kind of silliness with my ISP. If somebody else with edit privileges can do that, it'd be great. I'll get it. Sent from my MacBookPro Any philosophy that can be put in a

Re: [Fink-devel] cvs login problem

2011-01-16 Thread David Lowe
On 16 Jan, 2011, at 6:35 PM, David Lowe wrote: Agreed. I can't edit the wiki at home, though, due to some kind of silliness with my ISP. If somebody else with edit privileges can do that, it'd be great. I'll get it. I had wanted to put it in the General Information section

[Fink-devel] Can't exec --enable-debug: No such file or directory at /sw/lib/perl5/Fink/Services.pm line 588

2011-01-09 Thread David Lowe
Hmm. I seem to have painted myself into a corner and could use some help. I have a local package to experiment with the beta release of freeciv 2.3.0 [attached]. That built fine. However, i might have discovered a bug, and wish to rebuild with the symbol table populated to get more

Re: [Fink-devel] Can't exec --enable-debug: No such file or directory at /sw/lib/perl5/Fink/Services.pm line 588

2011-01-09 Thread David Lowe
On 9 Jan, 2011, at 11:06 AM, Charles Lepple wrote: On Jan 9, 2011, at 11:59 AM, David Lowe wrote: Hmm. I seem to have painted myself into a corner and could use some help. I have a local package to experiment with the beta release of freeciv 2.3.0 [attached]. That built fine

Re: [Fink-devel] pygtk2-gtk-py27 Dependency Problem

2011-01-02 Thread David Lowe
On 31 Dec, 2010, at 8:03 AM, Daniel Macks wrote: I added the -py27 variant (was already present in unstable) dan On Sat, 25 Dec 2010 05:08:16 -0800, David Lowe wrote: pygtk2-gtk-py27 is in stable, but it depends upon numpy-py27 [which is not in stable]. I did my usual

[Fink-devel] pygtk2-gtk-py27 Dependency Problem

2010-12-25 Thread David Lowe
pygtk2-gtk-py27 is in stable, but it depends upon numpy-py27 [which is not in stable]. Sent from my MacBookPro Though God cannot alter the past, historians can. - Butler -- Learn how Oracle Real Application

Re: [Fink-devel] [ fink-Package Submissions-3132981 ] freeciv 2.2.4 update

2010-12-15 Thread David Lowe
don't need to open a new tracker item for this. Just post a note to either fink-users or fink-devel asking to have 2.2.last to be moved to stable because it seems, well, stable. -- Comment By: David Lowe (doctorjlowe

Re: [Fink-devel] ppl-0.10.2-3

2010-11-22 Thread David Fang
Hi, This is in the FAQ. The latest Apple update for Java removed system-java-dev. You need to re-download/install the Java Developer packages from connect.apple.com (free registration). Fang Hi David, This fails to compile on mac 10.6.5 using fink: 10:02:24:~ fink

Re: [Fink-devel] Fink ppl update errors

2010-11-19 Thread David Fang
Dear David, I report the following error message for ppl install. $ fink list -o Information about 9566 packages read in 1 seconds. (i) ppl 1:0.10.2-3 Parma Polyhedra Library (i) ppl-shlibs 1:0.10.2-3 Parma Polyhedra Library $ sudo fink install ppl Information

Re: [Fink-devel] ppl-0.11-1

2010-11-15 Thread David Lowe
On 14 Nov, 2010, at 6:51 PM, James McKenzie wrote: Also, there is a statement that Apple has deprecated Java and will not support it with Lion. Not so fast! Apple has changed its tune. There was supposedly an announcement on Friday that Apple will turn over it's existing

Re: [Fink-devel] ppl-0.11-1

2010-11-14 Thread David Fang
, David Fang wrote: Hi James, This is a frequently reported issue (new item of http://www.finkproject.org/): The latest Apple update of Java resulted in removed headers which represent system-java-dev. Please download/install the Java Dev Kit from Apple.com and try again. (The update broke

Re: [Fink-devel] ppl-0.11-1, cloog-ppl and gcc

2010-11-12 Thread David Fang
-ppl-0.10.2-2 (Reading database ... 7650 files and directories currently installed.) Removing fink-buildlock-ppl-0.10.2-2 ... Failed: phase installing: ppl-shlibs-0.10.2-2 failed -- BABA Yoshihiko David Fang http://www.csl.cornell.edu/~fang/ http://www.achronix.com

Re: [Fink-devel] ppl-0.11-1, cloog-ppl and gcc

2010-11-10 Thread David Fang
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Re: [Fink-devel] ppl-0.11-1, cloog-ppl and gcc

2010-11-10 Thread David Fang
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Re: [Fink-devel] ppl-0.11-1

2010-11-09 Thread David Fang
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Re: [Fink-devel] ppl-0.11-1

2010-11-08 Thread David Fang
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[Fink-devel] new virtual pacakge? (was Re: [Fink-users] opensync failed again - cmake does not compile)

2010-10-24 Thread David R. Morrison
(switching to fink-devel) On Oct 25, 2010, at 9:43 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote: Start by downloading the Java Developer Package from connect.apple.com, which now contains the headers. If that doesn't work, then cmake is going to need to be updated further to cope with the new state of

Re: [Fink-devel] OT: Make Systems [was Notice: Packages linking to libfluidsynth]

2010-10-13 Thread David Lowe
On 13 Oct, 2010, at 5:12 AM, Daniel Johnson wrote: P.S. Yeah, cmake is a witch! It could be worse; it could be SCons! Veering off the topic, which make system available today provides the best balance of flexibility and ease of use? I've heard some good things about 'cook'. Sent

Re: [Fink-devel] compatibility version problem

2010-09-29 Thread David R. Morrison
On Sep 30, 2010, at 7:45 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 9/29/10 5:08 PM, Ebrahim Mayat wrote: Hello list With reference to my submission (#3074237) for fluidsynth-1.1.2, I have come across a compatibility version issue. As similarly

Re: [Fink-devel] R and its packages

2010-09-27 Thread David R. Morrison
Are you using the i386 or x86_64 architecture of fink? On Sep 27, 2010, at 9:35 PM, BABA Yoshihiko wrote: Hi all, I installed r-base, then tried to install its packages inside R environment, with the error below. The binary version of R didn't have such error. Would it be Fink's problem?

Re: [Fink-devel] R and its packages

2010-09-27 Thread David R. Morrison
Anyway, I suspect from your error message that you are using 10.6-i386. The R environment, on the other hand, is making calls to gcc with no arch flag so it defaults to x86_64, and your libraries are not compatible with that... -- Dave On Sep 27, 2010, at 9:43 PM, David R. Morrison wrote

Re: [Fink-devel] Shlibs: install_name and compatibility version

2010-09-20 Thread David R. Morrison
This sounds like something which should be added to the FAQ if its not there already. Also, I'm wondering if we should maybe enhance that validator test so that if it finds a Shlibs with an incomplete pathname, it gives additional advice (such as what Ben wrote in this email...) -- Dave

Re: [Fink-devel] Angband Won't Build As Nobody

2010-09-11 Thread David Lowe
On 3 Sep, 2010, at 11:21 AM, Hanspeter Niederstrasser wrote: On 9/3/10 12:14 PM, David Lowe wrote: It might be the case that the executable wants to run under the 'games' group for some reason--but I'm not sure. - --build-as-nobody doesn't allow _any_ use of chgrp, chmod, ..., because

Re: [Fink-devel] latest Buildworld results (2010-08-14)

2010-09-03 Thread David Lowe
On Aug 31, 2010, at 09:13 , Hanspeter Niederstrasser wrote: The results for the latest buildworld (10.5/i386/unstable) are in: I will review the unmaintained games on this list with an eye to possibly taking some of them over. Right now that looks like: angband-nox angband

[Fink-devel] Angband Won't Build As Nobody

2010-09-03 Thread David Lowe
I think all these games that failed Buildworld seem to need the games account... Adding a BDep on passwd did not improve the situation. This and similar commands were hand crafted into the InstallScript, theoretically for a reason. Does anybody know what it was? Is it still needed?

[Fink-devel] llvm 10.4/ppc build fail

2010-09-01 Thread David Fang
... Removing build-lock package... /sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait -r fink-buildlock-llvm-2.5-1 (Reading database ... 197421 files and directories currently installed.) Removing fink-buildlock-llvm-2.5-1 ... Failed: phase installing: llvm-2.5-1 failed Fang David Fang http://www.csl.cornell.edu/~fang

Re: [Fink-devel] cmake CMAKE_FIND_FRAMEWORK changed to LAST

2010-08-23 Thread David R. Morrison
On Aug 23, 2010, at 12:21 PM, Kees Bakker wrote: PS and BTW. If the Fink packages were build as fat binaries for i386 and ppc I would never have tried to use my own framework. Let me comment about why we don't do this. For a large percentage of open source packages (the figure 80% is

Re: [Fink-devel] [KDE/Mac] Developing KDE on Mac

2010-08-18 Thread David R. Morrison
On Aug 18, 2010, at 12:14 PM, Sjors Gielen wrote: Op 18 aug 2010, om 17:47 heeft Benjamin Reed het volgende geschreven: I'm obviously a supporter of Fink, being one of the core maintainers and all, but I think trying to package fink with a frontend would be a nightmare. First, what do you

Re: [Fink-devel] gcc 4.5.1 released

2010-08-14 Thread David Fang
gcc 4.5 defaults to dwarf2 and gcc in the Xcode for 10.4 still defaults to stabs). Jack On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 02:08:09PM -0700, David R. Morrison wrote: Sounds good to me. Maybe we should hear from the Jacks as well. -- Dave On Aug 13, 2010, at 1:57 PM, Alexander Hansen

Re: [Fink-devel] gcc 4.5.1 released

2010-08-13 Thread David R. Morrison
copy the extant gcc45.patch to gcc45-10.4.patch commit the 10.5 and 10.6-relevant files (gcc45.patch, gcc45.info, gcc45-x86_64.info) from the tracker ? That way we will have the updated gcc45 in 10.5 and 10.6, with the option to update it in 10.4. On 8/11/10 9:19 PM, David R. Morrison wrote

Re: [Fink-devel] gcc 4.5.1 released

2010-08-13 Thread David Fang
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Re: [Fink-devel] gcc 4.5.1 released

2010-08-11 Thread David R. Morrison
If I could make a small suggestion on this thread. Fink's support for 10.4 will end fairly soon, so it would not be such a bad thing if gcc 4.5.1 only runs on 10.5 and 10.6. -- Dave On Aug 11, 2010, at 5:36 PM, Jack Howarth wrote: On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 07:48:45PM -0400, Alexander

Re: [Fink-devel] libpng3-1:1.2.5-2

2010-08-08 Thread David R. Morrison
As Martin Costabel pointed out, both your fink installation and that libpng package are 6 years out of date. The FAQ should help you figure out how to update, or if not, people on the fink-users mailing list can help. -- Dave On Aug 8, 2010, at 9:19 AM, John Davison wrote: I noticed the

[Fink-devel] Fwd: libpng3-1:1.2.5-2

2010-08-07 Thread David R. Morrison
Has anybody seen this error before? Begin forwarded message: From: John Davison jmdavi...@optonline.net Date: August 7, 2010 2:20:59 PM PDT To: dmr...@users.sourceforge.net Subject: libpng3-1:1.2.5-2 Feedback: not good -- Package manager version: 0.21.3 Distribution version: 0.7.1

Re: [Fink-devel] This Newbie Could Use Some Help

2010-08-05 Thread David Lowe
On 5 Aug, 2010, at 8:24 AM, Hanspeter Niederstrasser wrote: dpkg-deb -c DEB FILE does the same thing if you just want a listing of the deb contents. Okeh, it's always good to have another tool in my toolkit. i don't see the rc file at all, just the stuff that goes into /sw . Is

[Fink-devel] Buildlock Problem

2010-08-04 Thread David Lowe
I just experienced a buildlock problem that the wiki says fink should be able to handle, and it didn't: $ fink -k build freeciv Scanning package description files.. Information about 9464 packages read in 3 seconds. The following package will be built: freeciv Setting runtime

Re: [Fink-devel] This Newbie Could Use Some Help

2010-08-04 Thread David Lowe
On 2 Aug, 2010, at 8:58 PM, Hanspeter Niederstrasser wrote: An option like that is generally not kept in Makefiles. If makefiles are involved, it's more likely as a defines that is then used by the c code. This command grep -r default_sound_plugin_name * suggests that client/options.c is

[Fink-devel] This Newbie Could Use Some Help

2010-08-02 Thread David Lowe
I have an [admittedly minor] problem with my own package and lack the know how to find a solution. Here's the story: the freeciv package is [at least for me] quite silent as built. It is built with the appropriate configure flags to use sdl-mixer as a sound plugin, but

[Fink-devel] Patching?

2010-07-14 Thread David Lowe
I'm sorry to bother you all, but i'm somehow not getting this right. I've found a patch that i'd like to apply to my package, but it's not going in. The error message is: can't find file to patch at input line 3 Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option? I've tried

Re: [Fink-devel] Patching?

2010-07-14 Thread David Lowe
On 14 Jul, 2010, at 3:41 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote: Try a different level. The default -p1 patch assumes that you're rooted in the top level Fink build directory for the package (/sw/src/freeciv-2.2.1-5/), and your diff appears to be from at least one level lower. Try p2 maybe.

[Fink-devel] Paths

2010-07-14 Thread David Lowe
Here's another jam i've gotten myself into. I'm gradually building a set of dependencies manually in /usr/local so i can attempt to make a clickable app of freeciv. I *think* i can get away with this by renaming /usr/local every time i use fink. My question is, do i similarly need to

Re: [Fink-devel] Patching?

2010-07-14 Thread David Lowe
On 14 Jul, 2010, at 4:06 PM, Charles Lepple wrote: Try -p0. Thank you, it's built now. Sent from my MacBookPro My cat wasn't broke, but I had it fixed anyway. -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What

Re: [Fink-devel] conflicts/replaces issue between ptex-base and texlive-base

2010-07-09 Thread David R. Morrison
On Jul 9, 2010, at 7:31 AM, Hanspeter Niederstrasser wrote: [1] Why the buildworld is building the ptex-base from stable is a whole other issue, and I have no idea as to why it's doing this. It does build ptex-base/unstable, but likes to build and use anew ptex-base/stable in the

Re: [Fink-devel] conflicts/replaces issue between ptex-base and texlive-base

2010-07-09 Thread David R. Morrison
The only resolution that I see is to move texlive* and ptex* to stable. Are they ready? -- Dave On Jul 9, 2010, at 1:37 PM, Hanspeter Niederstrasser wrote: On 7/9/10 11:58 AM, Tomoaki Okayama wrote: Hi, At Fri, 9 Jul 2010 08:07:03 -0600, David R. Morrison wrote: On Jul 9, 2010

[Fink-devel] Fwd: Failure building xfig-3.2.5-1012

2010-07-05 Thread David R. Morrison
Anybody have any ideas about this one? The missing symbol appears to be present in /sw/lib/libpng.dylib (the one installed by fink's libpng3 package). Begin forwarded message: From: Peter Dyballa peter_dyba...@freenet.de Date: July 5, 2010 1:33:10 PM MDT To: d...@finkproject.org Subject:

Re: [Fink-devel] Fwd: Failure building xfig-3.2.5-1012

2010-07-05 Thread David R. Morrison
On Jul 5, 2010, at 4:08 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: OK. That explains the issue: The Xquartz release candidate that you're using libpng14 rather than libpng12, and xfig isn't building against fink's libpng3 as it should. As you pointed out, xfig is actually linking to libpng from X11

Re: [Fink-devel] Fwd: Failure building xfig-3.2.5-1012

2010-07-05 Thread David R. Morrison
Anyway, the new revision xfig-3.2.5-1013 should fix this for you. -- Dave On Jul 5, 2010, at 4:31 PM, David R. Morrison wrote: On Jul 5, 2010, at 4:08 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: OK. That explains the issue: The Xquartz release candidate that you're using libpng14 rather than

[Fink-devel] crypto tree moved

2010-06-30 Thread David R. Morrison
Dear fink developers, Fink's cryptographic directory crypto has been moved to become a subdirectory of main, in both the stable and unstable trees. It is no longer necessary to put something into the crypto directory just because it depends on something else in the crypto directory. The

Re: [Fink-devel] python variant convention

2010-06-26 Thread David R. Morrison
Jack, Actually, leaving the old variants of python in place is perfectly OK. There may be people still using old versions of python (on 10.4 or 10.5) and leaving these variants for them is fine. Of course, if a maintainer stops being able to test new versions of the package with old versions

Re: [Fink-devel] python variant convention

2010-06-26 Thread David R. Morrison
of that was that py23 variants should be depreciated. Jack On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 09:33:39AM -0600, David R. Morrison wrote: Jack, Actually, leaving the old variants of python in place is perfectly OK. There may be people still using old versions of python (on 10.4 or 10.5) and leaving

Re: [Fink-devel] new libdmtx-0.7.2-1 attempt

2010-06-24 Thread David R. Morrison
Peter, Let me refer you to a section of the Fink Packaging Manual http://www.finkproject.org/doc/packaging/policy.php?phpLang=en#sharedlibs which explains how shared libraries are packaged in fink. Basically, you need to use fink's Splitoff mechanism to divide your package into a few others.

Re: [Fink-devel] new libdmtx-0.7.2-1 attempt

2010-06-24 Thread David R. Morrison
On Jun 24, 2010, at 8:21 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote: And why are you marking it as BuildDependsOnly: true? That's normally reserved for header packages. He probably did that to get rid of a validator warning, since he does have header files in his package. -- Dave

Re: [Fink-devel] testing apt and dpkg

2010-06-24 Thread David R. Morrison
On Jun 24, 2010, at 8:37 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The experimental apt-shlibs violates the Shlibs policy. Experimental: $ dpkg -L apt-shlibs /. /sw /sw/lib /sw/lib/libapt-inst.1.1.0.dylib /sw/lib/libapt-pkg.4.8.0.dylib /sw/share

[Fink-devel] SDL or libiconv problem?

2010-06-22 Thread David Lowe
This error just showed up during an 'update-all'. #include SDL_mixer.h configure:23968: result: no configure:23968: checking SDL_mixer.h presence configure:23968: gcc -E -g -O2 -I/sw/include/SDL -D_GNU_SOURCE=1 -D_THREAD_SAFE conftest.c In file included from

Re: [Fink-devel] SDL or libiconv problem?

2010-06-22 Thread David Lowe
On 22 Jun, 2010, at 1:56 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: What package is failing? It's kind of hard to try to reproduce the error without knowing that. It's my experimental freeciv package. It'd built fine before today so even though i'd made some changes at the request of the tracker,

Re: [Fink-devel] libjpeg-shlibs and libjpeg dependencies in your packages!

2010-06-21 Thread David R. Morrison
Dear Sjors, I'm not convinced that you have correctly diagnosed the crashes you have seen. The shared libraries of libjpeg and libjpeg8 have different names, and the dynamic linker cannot possibly confuse them. There is a remote possibility that some other library is confusing symbols between

[Fink-devel] F*EX [possible sendfile replacement]

2010-06-19 Thread David Lowe
On 12 Jun, 2010, at 8:41 AM, Daniel Macks wrote: I just updated the package per new version and changed URLs. But sendfile has a much better successor: F*EX http://fex.rus.uni-stuttgart.de/ Maybe you are interested. Love to have it! All we need is someone to submit a package .info

Re: [Fink-devel] Fixing libiconv (build-test needed)

2010-06-13 Thread David Lowe
On 13 Jun, 2010, at 12:56 AM, Daniel Macks wrote: On 10.6/32 bit: 1) with fink libiconv-dev installed, 2) without libiconv-dev, #2 gives me the extra line libtool: install: warning: `../lib/libiconv.la' has not been installed in `/sw/lib'. 3) without libiconv-dev *and

Re: [Fink-devel] http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/sendfile

2010-06-12 Thread David Lowe
On 12 Jun, 2010, at 8:41 AM, Daniel Macks wrote: But sendfile has a much better successor: F*EX http://fex.rus.uni-stuttgart.de/ Maybe you are interested. Love to have it! All we need is someone to submit a package .info file. The existing package, as you saw on the webpage, has no

Re: [Fink-devel] ATK and GTK

2010-05-19 Thread David Lowe
On 18 May, 2010, at 9:01 PM, Daniel Macks wrote: Thank you, Mr. Macks for providing a happily detailed answer to my question. Naturally, now that i know more i have some more [and hopefully more focused] questions. Using -dead_strip on a binary FOO prunes libs that are not actually

[Fink-devel] ATK and GTK

2010-05-15 Thread David Lowe
I'm nearly through [i think] with the freeciv-gtk2 package. There is a remaining issue that i'm not sure the best way to handle. Upstream lists ATK as a dependency, yet it gets stripped out with SetLDFLAGS: -Wl,-dead_strip_dylibs. When i inquired about this on the freeciv-dev list, i

[Fink-devel] stable vs. unstable

2010-05-13 Thread David R. Morrison
Dear Fink developers, A side-effect of the way in which we updated to 10.6 was that a number of packages have existed both in the stable and unstable trees, which were completely identical other than a restriction on Distribution or Architecture. This is against Fink policy, since it has the

Re: [Fink-devel] gmp build failure

2010-05-10 Thread David Fang
://fink.cvs.sf.net/viewvc/fink/experimental/fangism/finkinfo/ Can anyone one confirm whether or not gmp5 needs the same workaround on gmp5? fangism David Fang http://www.csl.cornell.edu/~fang/ http://www.achronix.com

Re: [Fink-devel] gmp build failure

2010-05-10 Thread David Fang
one would do. David Fang http://www.csl.cornell.edu/~fang/ http://www.achronix.com/ -- ___ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net http://news.gmane.org

Re: [Fink-devel] gmp build failure

2010-05-10 Thread David Fang
Looks like same issue. I just committed the same workaround over to my experimental gmp5.info. Can someone again confirm that this works? Thanks. -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 5/10/10 1:29 PM, David Fang wrote: I can confirm that gmp compiles successfully on my PPC OS

Re: [Fink-devel] gmp build failure

2010-05-10 Thread David Fang
Great! Thus committed to unstable. Now I just hope that no more issues crop up... On May 10, 2010, at 1:11 PM, David Fang wrote: Looks like same issue. I just committed the same workaround over to my experimental gmp5.info. Can someone again confirm that this works? Thanks. I can

Re: [Fink-devel] gmp build failure

2010-05-09 Thread David Fang
I found the following thread on this: http://gmplib.org/list-archives/gmp-bugs/2010-January/001838.html which suggests using the newer xcode's gcc-4.2. What Depends can I specify to enforce this in gmp.info? David A recent update for gmp fails during the build, see the output below. Package

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