Re: [Fink-devel] fink feature request

2006-07-20 Thread David R. Morrison
Jack, Let me try to explain this again. It has nothing to do with software built outside of fink, it has only to do with the way that the fink packaging system works. I'm going to explain this slowly, since we are miscommunicating, so please be patient and read the whole thing! In fact,

[Fink-devel] 64-bit libraries in fink

2006-07-20 Thread David R. Morrison
Dear Fink developers, I've just added the first fink package to provide 64bit libraries, to the 10.4 tree only. The new package is called gmp-64bit, and it has several new features which I'm going to suggest should become a standard part of fink. I suggest that appending -64bit to the

Re: [Fink-devel] fink feature request

2006-07-20 Thread David R. Morrison
On Jul 20, 2006, at 2:52 PM, Jack Howarth wrote: Dave, I understand how shared libraries are linked and acutely aware that the dpkg/apt-get in fink is brain-dead in regard to providing the appropriate shared library dependency information compared to Debian. On the contrary.

Re: [Fink-devel] looming gcc4 problems

2006-07-13 Thread David R. Morrison
On Jul 10, 2006, at 3:35 PM, Jack Howarth wrote: Dave, In this case, I don't think the approach of making a compatibility package is appropriate or wise. The current gcc4 in unstable, based on the gcc snapshots, is neither fish nor fowl. It has a libgfortran which has alway forked away

Re: [Fink-devel] libgfortran .so bump

2006-07-12 Thread David Fang
4.1.1) and gcc4.2 (whatever recent snapshot)? With the current 10.4 trees, I have to install my own (FSF) 4.0.x and 4.1.1, now that unstable/gcc4 points to the 4.2 trunk. Or would this be more hassle than it's worth? David

[Fink-devel] gcc4 split (was: libgfortran .so bump)

2006-07-12 Thread David Fang
/gcc4 points to the 4.2 trunk. Or would this be more hassle than it's worth? David: The reason the gcc4 package uses the 4.2 trunk is that there is no support for intel macs in the 4.1.x or 4.0.x branches. If we make packages for those, they will have to be ppc only. I see. Forget about

Re: [Fink-devel] gcc4 split

2006-07-12 Thread David Fang
with odcctools with a wee bit of patching, at least on powerpc.) Anyhow, thanks for entertaining the discussion. David - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre

Re: [Fink-devel] looming gcc4 problems

2006-07-10 Thread David R. Morrison
The standard way of handing this situation is to introduce a new package name for the package which provides a shared library that is not backward compatible with the previous one. So, for example, gdbm3-shlibs instead of gdbm-shlibs. That is why the symlink from / sw/lib/libgdbm.dylib is

Re: [Fink-devel] [cvs] web/download sources_for_binaries.ja.php, NONE, 1.1 nav.ja.inc, 1.6, 1.7

2006-06-30 Thread David R. Morrison
On Jun 30, 2006, at 8:01 PM, BABA Yoshihiko wrote: Update of /cvsroot/fink/web/download In directory sc8-pr-cvs5.sourceforge.net:/tmp/cvs-serv26882 Log Message: adding Japaese to Sources for Binaries Index: nav.ja.inc ===

[Fink-devel] Hello scientists and students, your input please

2006-06-26 Thread David H.
Dear selected community (tricky ehy...) It know that Fink has had a significant impact on the scientific community. There are a couple of packages which are in darwinports but not inf Fink and I would like to get a handle on how popular those missing packages are in the scientific computing

Re: [Fink-devel] Hello scientists and students, your input please

2006-06-26 Thread David Fang
system and nuances. David Fang Computer Systems Laboratory Electrical Computer Engineering Cornell University http://www.csl.cornell.edu/~fang/ -- (2400 baud? Netscape 3.0?? lynx??? No problem!) Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done

[Fink-devel] Gone every 60 seconds - Fink 0.8.1 is a big success

2006-06-23 Thread David H.
fink (our package manager Perl program) David R. Morrison - For his continued hard work to make binary releases such as Fink 0.8.1 happen Benjamin Reed - For his continues hard work on KDE, his porting efforts and the various extra tidbits he supplies us with. Fink Todai team - For their continued

[Fink-devel] Spread the word! Get us backlinks for your favourite package!

2006-06-22 Thread David H.
Hello Community. Popularity is an important factor when it comes to driving an open source project. Popularity and visitors to an open source project's home page attract sponsors. Sponsors pay money so that we can ensure Fink services its community better. If you have a package in Fink that you

Re: [Fink-devel] Spread the word! Get us backlinks for your favourite package!

2006-06-22 Thread David H.
In reply to my own email :) Go to the homepage of that package. Check whether they provide a link to Fink's homepage. These backlinks are very important as search engines calculate our pagerank based on that. If there is no link, get in touch with the author of the software or the web-team

[Fink-devel] Furthering our German speaking community, can you help?

2006-06-21 Thread David H.
Dear Community I have carefully reviewed the statistics that we generate for our Package Database and the recent articles published for our Release of version 0.8.1 In doing that I have noticed that German spoken countries are the second largest community using our service, as such I would like

[Fink-devel] Send a testimonials. - Get listed on the Fink Website.

2006-06-21 Thread David H.
Dear Community. Customer Feedback and statements on the quality of a product or service that come directly from the community are very important for any company that tries to make money. They are equally important to us. Your opinion matters, because what you think of us as a project can very

[Fink-devel] update script ready for testing

2006-06-14 Thread David R. Morrison
There is now a script available which will attempt to update a 10.4- transitional (or 10.3) fink installation to the 10.4 tree. The script comes in a tarball which also contains basic deb files for a 10.4 installation (and hence is nearly 12 MB). I'll announce this script generally in a day

[Fink-devel] installers ready for testing

2006-06-08 Thread David R. Morrison
The new binary installers are available for testing, at http://www.cgtp.duke.edu/~drm/Fink-0.8.1-Intel-Installer.dmg http://www.cgtp.duke.edu/~drm/Fink-0.8.1-PowerPC-Installer.dmg Each installer is designed to work on only one kind of hardware, and should fail to install on the other.

[Fink-devel] .info file creation for g-wrap 1.9.6

2006-06-03 Thread David Reiser
anyway, since there is no compatibility version information associated with otools -L on a .so. I'm working in the 10.4 tree, and don't know much about the relationships between the trees from a packaging standpoint. Should I go ahead and submit my .info file for the 10.4 tree? Thanks. -- David

Re: [Fink-devel] .so vs .dylib

2006-06-01 Thread David Reiser
On Jun 1, 2006, at 8:50 AM, Peter O'Gorman wrote: On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 01:15 -0400, David Reiser wrote: no soap. I wonder if ${QOF_LIBS} is 'providing' -lfoo Heh, I bet they still ahve a configure check for darwin that does a sed on the generated libtool script to always build dylibs

[Fink-devel] .so vs .dylib

2006-05-31 Thread David Reiser
, and I'm trying to keep the mac friendly ball rolling with limited knowledge on my part. -- David Reiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel

Re: [Fink-devel] .so vs .dylib

2006-05-31 Thread David Reiser
Thank you very much. That's what I needed to get started. The fog is slowly lifting. Someday I'll really understand... Dave On May 31, 2006, at 4:28 PM, Daniel Macks wrote: On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 09:25:50AM -0400, David Reiser wrote: This isn't necessarily a fink question, but it might get

Re: [Fink-devel] .so vs .dylib

2006-05-31 Thread David R. Morrison
Another useful fact, not mentioned on that page: these days, libtool and its autoconf friends can automatically name bundles as .so files if they are set up properly. Perhaps Peter O'Gorman can give some advice on this. -- Dave On May 31, 2006, at 3:05 PM, David Reiser wrote: Thank

Re: [Fink-devel] .so vs .dylib

2006-05-31 Thread David Reiser
On May 31, 2006, at 7:20 PM, Peter O'Gorman wrote: On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 09:25 -0400, David Reiser wrote: This isn't necessarily a fink question, but it might get to be... A change was made in gnucash 1.9.7 where the program looks to load a .so module, but the compiler/linker only created

Re: [Fink-devel] .so vs .dylib

2006-05-31 Thread David Reiser
On May 31, 2006, at 7:20 PM, Peter O'Gorman wrote: [snip] gnucash-1.9 probably still uses libltdl to open modules, doesn't it? Peter The module of immediate interest is loaded by gmodule. -- David Reiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Fink-devel mailing

Re: [Fink-devel] .so vs .dylib

2006-05-31 Thread David Reiser
On Jun 1, 2006, at 12:32 AM, Peter O'Gorman wrote: On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 23:50 -0400, David Reiser wrote: On May 31, 2006, at 7:20 PM, Peter O'Gorman wrote: [snip] gnucash-1.9 probably still uses libltdl to open modules, doesn't it? Peter The module of immediate interest is loaded

Re: [Fink-devel] switch to fink.cvs.sourceforge.net

2006-05-16 Thread David R. Morrison
On May 13, 2006, at 3:23 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: Now that cvs is up again, I guess everybody is reinventing the wheel in the form of a little one-liner to convert their local CVS repository to the new style. To save others the time for testing, here is one that worked for me (cut in

Re: [Fink-devel] platform conditional test for BuildDepends?

2006-05-14 Thread David R. Morrison
On May 14, 2006, at 12:32 PM, William Scott wrote: I have a vague recollection that this was discussed before but couldn't find it in the archives. Sorry. Is there a way I can do a conditional test in the BuildDepends field, so that I can have the package depend on dependency A on ppc

[Fink-devel] An Experiment. Locating Fink Users with Google Earth and Earthwind. Participate? Please do!

2006-04-29 Thread David H.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear Community. I have been thinking about geo-locating Fink Users for quite some time now. This mainly serves two purposes. First of all I am very curious where all the people that use Fink actually live and second of all, this should be a service

[Fink-devel] Re: An Experiment. Locating Fink Users with Google Earth and Earthwind. Participate? Please do!

2006-04-29 Thread David H.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert T Wyatt wrote: I think this is a cool idea. Wouldn't it be easier to just set up a Frappr page for fink users (http://www.frappr.com/)? One reason would be, that I did not know about this web-site. The other reason (now that I thought

Re: [Fink-devel] RFC: Choosing mirror by DNS LOC.

2006-04-25 Thread David H.
Chris Zubrzycki wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Apr 24, 2006, at 4:50 AM, David H. wrote: Hello fans. For a long time it has been known that the algorithm we choose your closest mirror by, might not be the best one. Here is a new idea and I hope you will leave you

[Fink-devel] RFC: Choosing mirror by DNS LOC.

2006-04-24 Thread David H.
Hello fans. For a long time it has been known that the algorithm we choose your closest mirror by, might not be the best one. Here is a new idea and I hope you will leave you comments for me. It would be quite trivial to publish DNS LOC records for every mirror that finkmirrors has to

Re: [Fink-devel] 10.4 unstable static?

2006-04-20 Thread David Fang
thing for the last few weeks. Are there any plans to fix it (if anything can be done from fink's side), or any status updates? Didn't see any mention on fink.sf.net. David Fang Computer Systems Laboratory Electrical Computer Engineering Cornell University http://www.csl.cornell.edu/~fang

Re: [Fink-devel] packages being removed from the 10.4 tree

2006-04-18 Thread David R. Morrison
On Apr 17, 2006, at 6:40 AM, Jean-François Mertens wrote: Here: 1) qcad does build, provided making sure to use gcc3.3. 2) gift-fasttrack from 10.3/unstable (ie, 0.8.9-1) builds w/o problem on 10.4 Thanks, I've put gift-fasttrack-0.8.9-1 into 10.4/unstable. 3) The svn/svk pkgs all build _

[Fink-devel] packages being removed from the 10.4 tree

2006-04-16 Thread David R. Morrison
The packages listed below were brought forward from the 10.4- transitional tree, but do not compile in the 10.4 tree. (They may or may not compile in the 10.4-transitional tree.) They are being removed from the 10.4 tree, and listed in the wiki. Of course, they may be repaired and

[Fink-devel] SHA1 checking for Bison (BUG)

2006-04-15 Thread David H.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello guys. I have just installed Fink HEAD, so that is about 30 seconds old. The validation for the bison sources is: openssl sha1 /sw/src/bison-2.1.tar.gz SHA1(/sw/src/bison-2.1.tar.gz)= b236923e7d4909c6fd8873ac87431833fa45069b That file has

Re: [Fink-devel] autogen-dev anyone?

2006-04-11 Thread David Bacher
, Martin Costabel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Bacher wrote: On 4/9/06, Martin Costabel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know what this package is used for and whether moving its options.h from /sw/include/ to /sw/share/autogen/ would be noticed by anyone at all? As the listed

[Fink-devel] policy: file locations for application bundle packages

2006-04-10 Thread David R. Morrison
Dear Fink developers, We agreed some time ago to allow Application bundle packages in Fink, and we now have a few of them. There is an AppBundles declaration available in .info files (although I understand from some previous email traffic that it does not really serve people's needs --

Re: [Fink-devel] -mtune/-mcpu and macintel

2006-04-10 Thread David R. Morrison
On Apr 10, 2006, at 9:32 AM, Jack Howarth wrote: What exactly is the preferred method of handling the -mcpu and -mtune compiler flags for dual use fink info files? For example, I have a sparky-py.info packaging that currently optimizes for the G5 with the -mtune flag. I would like to

Re: [Fink-devel] -mtune/-mcpu and macintel

2006-04-10 Thread David R. Morrison
On Apr 10, 2006, at 11:10 AM, Jack Howarth wrote: Dave, For the sparky-py fink packages, I have a sparky-py.patch which patches the Makefile to have ... -CXX= g++ -CXXFLAGS = +CXX= g++-3.3 By the way, g++-3.3 is not available on intel, so unless you can make

Re: [Fink-devel] autogen-dev anyone?

2006-04-09 Thread David Bacher
for this package, I'm happy to try to build and submit a more recent version -- and I'll find a solution for the problem discussed above. Cheers, -dave -- David Bacher _.. ._ ..._ . [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML

Re: [Fink-devel] fortran and intel (again, sorry)

2006-04-09 Thread David R. Morrison
On Apr 9, 2006, at 4:11 PM, Peter O'Gorman wrote: On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 12:07 -0600, Jeff Whitaker wrote: Bill: g95 does work on intel (gfortran doesn't). I've recently modified octave, fftw, and scipy-py to use g95. I'll be working on converting all packages to use g95. The latest

Re: [Fink-devel] fortran and intel (again, sorry)

2006-04-09 Thread David R. Morrison
On Apr 9, 2006, at 7:11 PM, William Scott wrote: Thanks. But I could not figure out how to get 4.2 with subversion (I can do it for 4.1). You don't need to use subversion, since they release weekly snapshots of the code. For laughs, I returned to the stable release, 4.0.3, and

[Fink-devel] Re: [Fink-beginners] failed install xfree86 on Intel

2006-04-07 Thread David R. Morrison
Redirected to fink-devel: On Apr 7, 2006, at 3:31 PM, Hisashi T Fujinaka wrote: On Fri, 7 Apr 2006, Alexander K. Hansen wrote: On 4/6/06, Hisashi T Fujinaka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 6 Apr 2006, Romy Schneider wrote: I'm trying to install xfree86 on a new MacBook Pro. I haven't

Re: [Fink-devel] Good way for testing stable-readiness?

2006-04-05 Thread David R. Morrison
On Apr 5, 2006, at 7:56 AM, Daniel Macks wrote: On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 07:29:34AM -0400, Benjamin Reed wrote: Max Horn wrote: Do we have a tool that helps a package author to (semi) automatically do this? If yes, could somebody point me at it? I don't think we have one, and every time I

Re: [Fink-devel] HEAD

2006-03-29 Thread David R. Morrison
Thanks for the report. Should be fixed now. -- Dave On Mar 29, 2006, at 5:22 AM, Robert T Wyatt wrote: For about a day or two I've been getting the following on both 10.4 and 10.3: cvs update: Updating update Global symbol $basepath requires explicit package name at /sw/lib/

[Fink-devel] 10.4 bindist ready for testing

2006-03-28 Thread David R. Morrison
The 10.4 bindist is ready for testing. I would appreciate testing reports being posted here, particularly if you are testing on intel hardware. To test (assuming that you are using the 10.4 tree already): 1) make sure that apt is installed 2) update fink to version 0.24.15 (now

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: experimental/rangerrick/10.4/main/finkinfo/x11 qt3.info,1.28,1.29 qt3.patch,1.30,1.31

2006-03-27 Thread David R. Morrison
On Mar 27, 2006, at 5:25 AM, Benjamin Reed wrote: Martin Costabel wrote: Before you move this from experimental to unstable, I'd like to remind you that with or without symlinks, this is *not* going to be compatible with any old package, as long as you change the install_name of the

Re: [Fink-devel] code freeze

2006-03-24 Thread David R. Morrison
On Mar 22, 2006, at 8:04 PM, David R. Morrison wrote: Dear fink developers, Please observe a code freeze in the 10.4/stable tree for the next few days, while the 0.8.1 bindist is being built. The freeze is over now; thanks for your help. -- Dave

[Fink-devel] Come meet me in Sydney!

2006-03-23 Thread David H.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear Community. I have to fly to Sydney on business and I would like to meet you. If you are close to Sydney, or live there, please do not be shy. If you have questions about fink PR, about the FDN plans or why Benjamin still packages KDE, meet me

Re: [Fink-devel] New Build Results

2006-03-23 Thread David R. Morrison
On Mar 23, 2006, at 12:53 PM, Brendan Cully wrote: He's also sent a patch that brings ocaml to this revision. I'm not sure now whether it'd be better to add the patch or wait for the next ocaml release, but I'm leaning towards adding it once I've checked it on ppc. I maintain a fink

Re: [Fink-devel] New Build Results

2006-03-22 Thread David R. Morrison
On Mar 22, 2006, at 7:57 AM, Matthew Sachs wrote: On Mar 22, 2006, at 09:01, Remi Mommsen wrote: Hi Matthew, On Mar 21, 2006, at 10:42 PM, Matthew Sachs wrote: New buildfink data are up. http://fink.opendarwin.org/build/2006-03-09/ppc/out/report.html

[Fink-devel] code freeze

2006-03-22 Thread David R. Morrison
Dear fink developers, Please observe a code freeze in the 10.4/stable tree for the next few days, while the 0.8.1 bindist is being built. Thanks, Dave --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language

Re: [Fink-devel] New Build Results

2006-03-22 Thread David R. Morrison
On Mar 22, 2006, at 11:15 AM, Brendan Cully wrote: On Wednesday, 22 March 2006 at 11:09, David R. Morrison wrote: I've filed a radar for the gforth one, I'll file radars for the ocaml, root4, and windowmaker failures too. It could be that there's a problem with the inline assembly they're

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: FYI: SDL change

2006-03-21 Thread David R. Morrison
On Mar 20, 2006, at 11:57 PM, Max Horn wrote: Well, in my eyes, those rights were already severely cut when those packages where moved to the intel tree, without the maintainers being involved in anyway. Again, I understand the logistic reasons for this. But: by this process, the packages

Re: [Fink-devel] cvs update warnings

2006-03-21 Thread David Fang
Is anyone else seeing the following warnings on a cvs fink-selfupdate of 10.4 today? cvs update: -m wrapper option is not supported remotely; ignored Yes, just last night. I haven't seen this one before. Jack Me neither.

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: FYI: SDL change

2006-03-21 Thread David R. Morrison
Max, I've just expanded the message which fink gives to users upon a compile failure. If the user is on intel hardware, after the suggestion to email the maintainer appears the sentence: Note that many fink package maintainers do not (yet) have access to OSX on Intel hardware, so you

[Fink-devel] Re: [PR] Fink is about to change, are you going to be part of it? Help us build the Fink Developer Network!

2006-03-19 Thread David H.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Trevor Harmon wrote: On Mar 18, 2006, at 8:09 AM, David H. wrote: snip I'm not sure why this is necessary. Fink is growing, but that doesn't mean it requires a corporate foundation. There are only two reasons given on the wiki: Thank you

[Fink-devel] [PR] Fink is about to change, are you going to be part of it? Help us build the Fink Developer Network!

2006-03-18 Thread David H.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear Community. Before you read this, please make sure you verified and understood that it comes from a trustworthy source. My name is David Höhn and what I do is mentioned here on our official web-site: http://fink.sourceforge.net/people.php?phpLang

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: ccp4 on intel imac

2006-03-17 Thread David R. Morrison
On Mar 17, 2006, at 6:33 AM, Peter O'Gorman wrote: On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 22:18 -0800, Kirk Volland wrote: If you are still looking for a fortran compiler for the Intel Mac, try HPC (High Performance Computing) website. http://hpc.sourceforge.net/ It's author released an Intel binary of

[Fink-devel] Fwd: dists/10.4/stable/main/finkinfo/editors cssed-filebrowser-plugin.info,1.4,1.5 cssed-findinfiles-plugin.info,1.4,1.5 cssed-plugindoc-plugin.info,1.4,1.5 cssed-quicksearch-plugin.info,

2006-03-17 Thread David R. Morrison
Begin forwarded message:From: "David R. Morrison" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: March 17, 2006 6:46:30 AM PSTTo: Michèle Garoche [EMAIL PROTECTED]Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: dists/10.4/stable/main/finkinfo/editors cssed-filebrowser-plugin.info,1.4,1.5 cssed-findinfiles-plugin.info,1.4

Re: [Fink-devel] Fwd: dists/10.4/stable/main/finkinfo/editors cssed-filebrowser-plugin.info,1.4,1.5 cssed-findinfiles-plugin.info,1.4,1.5 cssed-plugindoc-plugin.info,1.4,1.5 cssed-quicksearch-plugin.i

2006-03-17 Thread David R. Morrison
On Mar 17, 2006, at 10:48 AM, Michèle Garoche wrote:Le 17 mars 2006 à 15:48, David R. Morrison a écrit :Begin forwarded message:From: "David R. Morrison" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: March 17, 2006 6:46:30 AM PSTTo: Michèle Garoche [EMAIL PROTECTED]Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: dists/1

[Fink-devel] Re: dists/10.4/stable/main/finkinfo/editors bluefish.info,1.6,1.7 bluefish.patch,1.3,1.4

2006-03-17 Thread David R. Morrison
On Mar 17, 2006, at 1:03 PM, Michèle Garoche wrote: Update of /cvsroot/fink/dists/10.4/stable/main/finkinfo/editors In directory sc8-pr-cvs1.sourceforge.net:/tmp/cvs-serv6436 Modified Files: bluefish.info bluefish.patch Log Message: Does it compile now on Mac Intel? Actually, the

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: ccp4 on intel imac

2006-03-15 Thread David R. Morrison
to make to get it to fly. It might be worth posting this to fink dev. In fact, I'll cc it now to get the ball rolling The incredibly knowledgable and helpful David Morrison is also at Duke, but I doubt he makes house calls. Hi Bill. Actually, I'm on sabbatical this year, just up

Re: [Fink-devel] install_names for libraries object files in openoffice.org-firefox-2.0.1+m156-104

2006-03-14 Thread David R. Morrison
On Mar 14, 2006, at 5:18 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote: I successfully built openoffice.org-firefox-2.0.1+m156-104 on my PowerBook, which is currently set up for 10.4-transitional. So far everything seems to run as it did on prior versions. However, I was looking around at some of the

Re: [Fink-devel] SDL-mixer patch for fink

2006-03-13 Thread David R. Morrison
On Mar 12, 2006, at 5:03 PM, Max Horn wrote: Am 12.03.2006 um 02:22 schrieb David R. Morrison: On Mar 11, 2006, at 3:51 PM, Daniel Johnson wrote: On Mar 10, 2006, at 10:57 AM, Keith Conger wrote: Hi Max, A couple packages of mine depend on SDL_mixer so I decided to try to fix

Re: [Fink-devel] SDL-mixer patch for fink

2006-03-11 Thread David R. Morrison
On Mar 11, 2006, at 3:51 PM, Daniel Johnson wrote: On Mar 10, 2006, at 10:57 AM, Keith Conger wrote: Hi Max, A couple packages of mine depend on SDL_mixer so I decided to try to fix on 10.4 intel. Looks like the fixes were in SDL_mixer cvs already. So I've include a patch and update

Re: [Fink-devel] gfortran and ccp4: OS X (report) (fwd)

2006-03-07 Thread David R. Morrison
As a side note to this thread, I cannot get the current gcc4 package in 10.4/unstable (which has gfortran as a SplitOff) to compile on intel. The build log ends like this: /bin/sh ./libtool --mode=compile /Volumes/Fink/fink.build/ gcc4-4.1.0-1/gcc-4.1.0/darwin/./gcc/xgcc

Re: [Fink-devel] gfortran and ccp4: OS X (report) (fwd)

2006-03-07 Thread David R. Morrison
, __gfortrani_compile_options minus L001$pb /var/tmp//cc3Ah87d.s:18:symbol: __gfortrani_compile_options can't be undefined in a subtraction expression On Mar 7, 2006, at 7:11 AM, Peter O'Gorman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David R. Morrison wrote: | /Volumes/Fink/fink.build

[Fink-devel] Re: fink/perlmod/Fink ChangeLog,1.873.2.88,1.873.2.89 SelfUpdate.pm,1.81.2.7,1.81.2.8

2006-03-06 Thread David R. Morrison
Dan, This is the second bugfix in branch_0_24 that I've noticed recently. Do we need any more? I'd like to move a recent 0.24.x to stable pretty soon, but I guess we should have a bugfix release first. Is this a good time, or are there more bugs to squash? -- Dave On Mar 6, 2006,

Re: [Fink-devel] Proposal: New percent-expansion for full version (Was: HEAD buildlocks (and maybe others?) don't handle epoch)

2006-02-28 Thread David R. Morrison
On Feb 27, 2006, at 4:13 PM, Dave Vasilevsky wrote: On Feb 27, 2006, at 6:07 PM, Daniel Macks wrote: if (defined $epoch) {%V=%e:%v-%r} else {%V=%v-%r} More or less, though it's actually just $pv-get_fullversion() . If an old fink that doesn't understand %V encounters it, do you think

Re: [Fink-devel] zsh-4.3.1 and its fink package

2006-02-28 Thread David R. Morrison
On Feb 28, 2006, at 9:32 AM, William Scott wrote: Dear Powers that Be: zsh has been maintained by dmalloc. I've been informally keeping it up to date and bug-fixed on 10.4-transitional, and 4.2.6 is quite stable. zsh have just released the 4.3 series. This involves some major

Re: [Fink-devel] Gettext stable-unstable switching on 10.4 tree

2006-02-27 Thread David R. Morrison
On Feb 25, 2006, at 2:16 PM, Dave Vasilevsky wrote: On Feb 25, 2006, at 4:07 PM, David R. Morrison wrote: So its only because we don't have a deb for (old) gettext-tools? If I built the old gettext-tools first it would be OK? Gah, I've been getting things wrong. Lemme see if I can get

Re: [Fink-devel] Gettext stable-unstable switching on 10.4 tree

2006-02-25 Thread David R. Morrison
On Feb 24, 2006, at 3:00 AM, Michèle Garoche wrote: Just for the record if it matters. I've bootstrapped from HEAD in a new empty directory; bootstrapped was fine: it installed gettext and its dependencies at version 0.10.40-19 on stable branch. Then I've switched to unstable, removing

Re: [Fink-devel] Gettext stable-unstable switching on 10.4 tree

2006-02-25 Thread David R. Morrison
On Feb 25, 2006, at 4:55 AM, David R. Morrison wrote: Well, upon further investigation this is a very curious story. If I repeat the same steps as Michèle, but starting by bootstrapping from branch_0_24, then the update goes OK. But if the bootstrap is from HEAD, the update fails

Re: [Fink-devel] Gettext stable-unstable switching on 10.4 tree

2006-02-25 Thread David R. Morrison
On Feb 25, 2006, at 6:40 AM, Dave Vasilevsky wrote: Alright, here's the reason SysState exists, and why it gives an error. Dpkg has a reasonably serious bug in it: when a package is upgraded, dpkg doesn't check to see if there are any versioned dependencies that have become invalid.

Re: [Fink-devel] Gettext stable-unstable switching on 10.4 tree

2006-02-25 Thread David R. Morrison
On Feb 25, 2006, at 5:24 AM, David R. Morrison wrote: The situation is this: foo and bar are initially splitoffs in the same package, and foo depends on a specific version of bar. But in the revision, foo and bar are in different packages. Due to dependencies, fink updates bar before foo

Re: [Fink-devel] Gettext stable-unstable switching on 10.4 tree

2006-02-25 Thread David R. Morrison
On Feb 25, 2006, at 6:40 AM, Dave Vasilevsky wrote: Alright, here's the reason SysState exists, and why it gives an error. Dpkg has a reasonably serious bug in it: when a package is upgraded, dpkg doesn't check to see if there are any versioned dependencies that have become invalid.

Re: [Fink-devel] Gettext stable-unstable switching on 10.4 tree

2006-02-25 Thread David R. Morrison
On Feb 25, 2006, at 8:14 AM, Dave Vasilevsky wrote: On Feb 25, 2006, at 9:48 AM, David R. Morrison wrote: However, there are some pairs of packages (dclib0 and valknut come to mind) which have been set up so that one depends on a precise version of another. It seems to me

Re: [Fink-devel] Gettext stable-unstable switching on 10.4 tree

2006-02-25 Thread David R. Morrison
On Feb 25, 2006, at 9:38 AM, Dave Vasilevsky wrote: The problem with gettext is that when you build and install libgettext3-shlibs, the new gettext-tools hasn't been built yet! Even though SysState *wants* to upgrade them as a unit, it can't do so until it has .debs for all of them. The

Re: [Fink-devel] Gettext stable-unstable switching on 10.4 tree

2006-02-25 Thread David R. Morrison
On Feb 25, 2006, at 1:00 PM, Dave Vasilevsky wrote: On Feb 25, 2006, at 3:28 PM, David R. Morrison wrote: To explain: after the update, gettext (which really means gettext- shlibs but for historical reasons is called gettext) and gettext- dev are in one package, which is really just

Re: [Fink-devel] Gettext stable-unstable switching on 10.4 tree

2006-02-24 Thread David R. Morrison
Hi Michèle. I've seen things like this before. This kind of upgrade issue is exactly why I haven't moved libgettext3 to stable. We need to have a strategy for avoiding any issues with users who upgrade to libgettext3. Thanks for the report. -- Dave On Feb 24, 2006, at 3:00 AM,

[Fink-devel] Re: web header.inc,1.95,1.96

2006-02-24 Thread David R. Morrison
Hi Baba. Actually, this change might not be a good idea. There is no problem on the main site, but we also use this code on our remote server pdb.finkproject.org. On that site, these menu items need to point back to fink.sourceforge.net. So unless $root is going to get defined there

Re: [Fink-devel] Strange version-revision numbering in libncurses5 on 10.4 stable

2006-02-21 Thread David R. Morrison
On Feb 21, 2006, at 3:12 AM, Michèle Garoche wrote: I'm a bit confused by the version-revision number for libncurses5 on 10.4. They do not seem to exist in any tree. Context: I bootstrapped from HEAD in a new empty directory. Trying to see what needs to eventually be done on

Re: [Fink-devel] 10.4 bindist URL?

2006-02-19 Thread David R. Morrison
On Feb 19, 2006, at 12:18 PM, Koen van der Drift wrote: Hi, After moving to 10.4, fink is unable to find the bindist for 10.4 when I execute the fink selfupdate command: Err http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.4/release/main Packages 404 Not Found If I go to

[Fink-devel] CVS chill over

2006-02-18 Thread David R. Morrison
On Jan 20, 2006, at 9:44 AM, David R. Morrison wrote: I am imposing a chill on CVS, for the 10.4-transitional tree (both stable and unstable). During the chill, I ask that people only make urgent commits, and that they try to avoid changing packages which have a GCC tag. (Of course, bug

Re: [Fink-devel] CVS chill over

2006-02-18 Thread David R. Morrison
On Feb 18, 2006, at 1:04 PM, Koen van der Drift wrote: On Feb 18, 2006, at 2:25 PM, David R. Morrison wrote: The 10.4 tree is based on the state of the 10.4-transitional tree on January 20, the day the chill began. Some of the more recent changes were transferred over, but not in any

[Fink-devel] perl modules and intel

2006-02-14 Thread David R. Morrison
Folks, The old perl packages perl-5.8.1 and perl-5.8.4 do not immediately build on intel (because they require the gcc-3.3 compiler). While it might be possible to fix this, my opinion is that our time is better spent elsewhere than on old versions of software. If there is disagreement

Fwd: [Fink-devel] unsupported 10.4.4 and G5 Quad requires fink modification.

2006-01-30 Thread David R. Morrison
Begin forwarded message:From: "David R. Morrison" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: January 30, 2006 11:15:15 AM PSTTo: BuildSmart [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: [Fink-devel] unsupported 10.4.4 and G5 Quad requires fink modification. On Jan 29, 2006, at 12:10 PM, BuildSmart wrote: On Jan 29, 2006

[Fink-devel] bootstrapping and the 10.4 tree

2006-01-28 Thread David R. Morrison
Dear Fink developers, As many of you are aware, the 10.4 tree is under construction and will be made available within a week or so. Currently, if you bootstrap fink from either CVS HEAD or branch_0_24, the *default* is to bootstrap you into the new tree. You can affect this behavior by

[Fink-devel] Re: bootstrapping and the 10.4 tree

2006-01-28 Thread David R. Morrison
P.S. You need XCode 2.2.1 in order to bootstrap into the 10.4 tree. On Jan 28, 2006, at 10:57 AM, David R. Morrison wrote: Dear Fink developers, As many of you are aware, the 10.4 tree is under construction and will be made available within a week or so. Currently, if you bootstrap fink

[Fink-devel] Re: ec-fonts-mftraced dependency

2006-01-22 Thread Jean-David Maillefer
I was trying to build lilypond (2.6.3-11) from source and it failed during compilation of depency pacakge ec-fonts-mftraced (1.0.12-2) The error is the following: /bin/sh: /sw/bin/mftrace: /sw/bin/python2.3: bad interpreter: \ No such file or directory I have python installed, but it's the

[Fink-devel] CVS chill

2006-01-20 Thread David R. Morrison
I am imposing a chill on CVS, for the 10.4-transitional tree (both stable and unstable). During the chill, I ask that people only make urgent commits, and that they try to avoid changing packages which have a GCC tag. (Of course, bug fixes are always welcome, particularly if they involve

Re: [Fink-devel] CVS freeze coming

2006-01-16 Thread David R. Morrison
On Jan 15, 2006, at 10:02 PM, Michèle Garoche wrote: Le 16 janv. 2006 à 00:06, David R. Morrison a écrit : I intend to declare a CVS freeze for both 10.4-transitional/ unstable and 10.4-transitional/stable, sometime within the next week. Once the freeze is implemented

@PREFIX (was Re: [Fink-devel] CVS freeze coming)

2006-01-16 Thread David R. Morrison
On Jan 15, 2006, at 10:02 PM, Michèle Garoche wrote: And another question fully unrelated to doc, but maybe to package. I've found fully per mere chance today the following line in python24.patch in 10.4-transitional unstable: +inc_dirs = self.compiler.include_dirs + ['@PREFIX/

[Fink-devel] CVS freeze coming

2006-01-15 Thread David R. Morrison
I intend to declare a CVS freeze for both 10.4-transitional/unstable and 10.4-transitional/stable, sometime within the next week. Once the freeze is implemented, it will be in effect for at least several days, possibly longer, as I construct the 10.4 tree. Anyone who ignores the freeze

Re: [Fink-devel] CVS freeze coming

2006-01-15 Thread David R. Morrison
On Jan 15, 2006, at 4:17 PM, Hanspeter Niederstrasser wrote: Hi, Will libgettext3 be moved to stable before the freeze? Hanspeter No. There are some problems with moving libgettext3 to stable, and given the urgency of creating a 10.4 tree so that fink will work on Intel hardware,

Re: [Fink-devel] Fink and Intel -- how to?

2006-01-11 Thread David R. Morrison
On Jan 10, 2006, at 10:05 PM, Lars Rosengreen wrote: On 1/10/06, David R. Morrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 6, 2006, at 1:44 PM, Asko Kauppi wrote: I have a package for Fink that is completely CPU ignorant; how should I mark it such in the .info file? That's the default behavior

Re: [Fink-devel] Fink and Intel -- how to?

2006-01-10 Thread David R. Morrison
On Jan 6, 2006, at 1:44 PM, Asko Kauppi wrote: I have a package for Fink that is completely CPU ignorant; how should I mark it such in the .info file? That's the default behavior; no need to mark anything. Also, what is the generic approach taken towards PowerPC/Intel issue, which

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Compilation of neon24 with gcc 4.0.1

2006-01-04 Thread David R. Morrison
On Jan 4, 2006, at 9:30 AM, Christian Schaffner wrote: hi Charlie On 03.01.2006, at 17:28, Charles Curry wrote: I assume there is nothing wrong with compiling neon24 with gcc 4.0.1, but the current package being distributed through Fink mirrors seems to prevent this. Might you be able to

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