Re: [Fink-devel] Fink update all failed compiling gcc 4.4.4

2009-10-03 Thread Hanspeter Niederstrasser
Jack Howarth wrote: I wasn't proposing a check for a specific list of files but rather as simple option of a strict build mode which would abort if any *.h or *.a files existed inside of /usr/local. Jack Howarth earlier wrote: The idea would be for packages known to commonly suffer from

Re: [Fink-devel] Fink update all failed compiling gcc 4.4.4

2009-10-02 Thread Hanspeter Niederstrasser
Jack Howarth wrote: The issue of build failures from development libraries in /usr/local seems to come up endlessly. I have wondered if there is some way that a 'strict' build mode could be introduced into fink. The idea would be for packages known to commonly suffer from this issue, the

Re: [Fink-devel] Fink update all failed compiling gcc 4.4.4

2009-10-02 Thread Jack Howarth
Hanspeter, I wasn't proposing a check for a specific list of files but rather as simple option of a strict build mode which would abort if any *.h or *.a files existed inside of /usr/local. Jack -- Come

Re: [Fink-devel] Fink update all failed compiling gcc 4.4.4

2009-10-01 Thread Jack Howarth
The issue of build failures from development libraries in /usr/local seems to come up endlessly. I have wondered if there is some way that a 'strict' build mode could be introduced into fink. The idea would be for packages known to commonly suffer from this issue, the info file could invoke a

Re: [Fink-devel] fink update-all failed

2003-06-24 Thread Ben Hines
On Monday, June 23, 2003, at 10:39 PM, William Scott wrote: and now it is working. I assume automake is something I ought to put back when I am done, but I have seen several users have the same problem and wonder if there is a better fix? No reason to put automake back. It is obsolete, just an

RE: [Fink-devel] fink update-all failed

2003-06-24 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
In the FAQ it says to remove the package (by force if necessary) and reinstall it--just do the latter at some point. Alexander K. Hansen Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University visiting MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Levitated Dipole Experiment 175 Albany Street, NW17-219