I hope it's OK to ask this here. I've spent hours on the fink website looking, and googling, but I'm still missing something...
I am the author the Gri application (http://gri.sf.net) which I developed on vms/solaris/.../linux but now I have an OSX box on my desk, so I'd like to learn how to use
There is a fink build command, which builds the source into a .deb
archive, but doesn't install the package.
Check out the Fink Packaging Guide:
http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/packaging/index.php
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For a local build, do you mean installing the files somewhere outside
your main Fink tree? If
Thanks, Alexander, for the help. Just to check, is the following right? (Well, it fails to build, but I'm hoping I've done something wrong...)
Emit:~ kelley$ fink build gri
sudo /sw/bin/fink build gri
Information about 1118 packages read in 0 seconds.
no package found for gri
Failed: no
Your .info file is in the right place--the tarball should be in
/sw/src. You may need to run fink index to make sure your .info
file is visible.
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Alexander K. Hansen
Levitated Dipole Experiment
http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX
On Jan 14, 2004, at 2:27 PM, Dan Kelley wrote:
Thanks, Alexander,
Ah, that's the ticket!! Compiling right now. Thanks very much for the hints. Dan.
On Jan 14, 2004, at 3:39 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote:
Your .info file is in the right place--the tarball should be in /sw/src. You may need to run fink index to make sure your .info file is visible.
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