Re: [Fink-users] rm -rf errors

2002-03-28 Thread Chris Zubrzycki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday, March 28, 2002, at 09:26 PM, James J. Sorenson wrote: > I have been getting occasional errors when installing certain packages > that use "rm -rf." For instance, the netpbm package from the current > unstable distribution will always

[Fink-users] rm -rf errors

2002-03-28 Thread James J. Sorenson
I have been getting occasional errors when installing certain packages that use "rm -rf." For instance, the netpbm package from the current unstable distribution will always error out when it tries: rm -rf /sw/src/root-netpbm-9.24-3/sw/share/man/man1 I get "Directory not empty" errors. This m

[Fink-users] XDarwin quits using Gnome

2002-03-28 Thread Chris Zubrzycki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I get this message is the console: 2002-03-28 20:13:52.041 XDarwin[20166] XDarwin 1.1 XFree86 Version 4.2.0 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6600) Release Date: 18 January 2002 If the server is older than 6-

Re: [Fink-users] Can't "fink selfupdate"

2002-03-28 Thread Derek Homeier
On Thursday, March 28, 2002, at 05:44 PM, Hester, Jeffrey W. wrote: > Per Alexander's recommendation I did a "fink remove packagename" on all > those listed with a "C" in the first column. What's strange is that only > "ddd" was actually removed. All of the other packages gave the following > e

Re: [Fink-users] feedback installing aalib-shlibs-1.4rc4-5

2002-03-28 Thread Finlay Dobbie
On Thursday, March 28, 2002, at 01:42 PM, Gaetano Vitale wrote: > gvitale% which make > /usr/local/bin/make > gvitale% which install > /usr/bin/install > > I don't have the same installation of the tools you have (mine are the > Apple Dec2001), 'cose: > gvitale% make --version > make: no target

RE: [Fink-users] Can't "fink selfupdate"

2002-03-28 Thread Hester, Jeffrey W.
Hello, >...what's up with all these lines? Did something get garbled when you >pasted this into your message, or were there really all these weird line >breaks in there? I can't remember ever seeing anything like that before... Not sure. It looks fine in my message in my "sent items' and also i

RE: [Fink-users] Can't "fink selfupdate"

2002-03-28 Thread Chris Devers
On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Hester, Jeffrey W. wrote: [snipping, leaving notable lines] > ? dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/sci/pdl-2.2.1-6.p! > atch > ? dists/unstable/main/finkin! > fo/sound/libogg-1.0rc2-1.patch > ? dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/utils/gawk-3.1.0-2.info! > > ? dists/unstable/main/finkin!

RE: [Fink-users] Can't "fink selfupdate"

2002-03-28 Thread Alexander Hansen
Try manually removing the packages that give you conflicts--anything that has a C at the beginning of the CVS output, e.g.: C dists/stable/main/finkinfo/devel/ddd-3.3.1-1.info See how that goes. -- Alexander K. Hansen Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University Levitated Dipole Experiment

RE: [Fink-users] Can't "fink selfupdate"

2002-03-28 Thread Hester, Jeffrey W.
That helped me get further but it's failing with cvs errors now. Any ideas? I don't know why I would have started getting errors now. For those just tuning in I'm trying to do a "sudo fink selfupdate". I modifed the ownership for "/sw/fink" to my username instead of "root". Fink --version give

[Fink-users] Setting the MacOS X shell environment for Fink DocBook packages.

2002-03-28 Thread Sasha Zucker
Here's a working example of some lines that can be included in an initialization file after installing the DocBook packages with Fink on Mac OS X. Note that I use the bash shell, so Cshellers out there will have to rewrite things a bit. # SGML_SHARE=/sw/share/sgml XML

Re: [Fink-users] Erraticness with mozilla 0.9.9-2

2002-03-28 Thread Martin Costabel
Masanori Sekino wrote: > > mozilla-0.9.9-2 does "unlimit stack" in /sw/bin/mozilla, too. Yes, I see this now. Sorry for not looking before. The reason why I thought it still did not set it was: I started mozilla 2 or 3 times and it crashed each time, with quite different messages in the crash

Re: [Fink-users] Gome Start Problem

2002-03-28 Thread Alexander Hansen
Just put "exec gnome-session" in your .xinitrc (or the system's xinitrc, if you are feeling bold). I should elaborate a bit more, because there's been some confusion. Here's the last two lines of my own .xinitrc: exec fvwm & exec gnome-session (your own window manager may differ) All lines exce

[Fink-users] Octave missing libssl dependency

2002-03-28 Thread J. Brian Adams
When trying to install octave via dselect, it gives a dependency error that it is missing the libssl dylib. I fixed this by installing openssl, but I wondered if the dependency database should be updated. Brian ___ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PR

[Fink-users] Gome Start Problem

2002-03-28 Thread lines3200
To all OSX Fans I think it's just a small Problem for you but a big one for me. How to start the gnome installation in xinitrc ?(installed all through fink without problem) Thx for all help. Lines ___ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https:/

Re: [Fink-users] Erraticness with mozilla 0.9.9-2

2002-03-28 Thread Allen Smith
Whenever I see this with mozilla I try and mv ~/.mozilla ~/.mozilla.safe and restart to see if it comes up. Sometimes the various mozilla builds don't react well to previous cruft in .mozilla. On Thursday, March 28, 2002, at 06:15 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote: > It seems to be working more cons

Re: [Fink-users] Erraticness with mozilla 0.9.9-2

2002-03-28 Thread Masanori Sekino
mozilla-0.9.9-2 does "unlimit stack" in /sw/bin/mozilla, too. On Thu, 28 Mar 2002 09:16:11 +0100 Martin Costabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Did you "unlimit stack"? This makes it work for me. The new version is > supposed to do this automatically, but I think that part doesn't work: > > It do

Re: [Fink-users] feedback installing aalib-shlibs-1.4rc4-5

2002-03-28 Thread Martin Costabel
On jeudi, mars 28, 2002, at 05:28 , Gaetano Vitale wrote: > [localhost:~/scratch/dillo-0.6.4] gvitale% /usr/bin/gnumake > /usr/bin/gnumake all-recursive > Making all in doc > gnumake[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'. > Making all in src > Making all in IO > cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../..

Re: [Fink-users] feedback installing aalib-shlibs-1.4rc4-5

2002-03-28 Thread Gaetano Vitale
Chris, thanks allot to helping out. there must be something else broken in my installation. I do not seem to be able to compile anything, anymore, anyway: [localhost:~/scratch/dillo-0.6.4] gvitale% /usr/bin/gnumake /usr/bin/gnumake all-recursive Making all in doc gnumake[2]: Nothing to be done f

Re: [Fink-users] feedback installing aalib-shlibs-1.4rc4-5

2002-03-28 Thread Gaetano Vitale
Chris, thanks allot to helping out. there must be something else broken in my installation. I do not seem to be able to compile anything, anymore, anyway: [localhost:~/scratch/dillo-0.6.4] gvitale% /usr/bin/gnumake /usr/bin/gnumake all-recursive Making all in doc gnumake[2]: Nothing to be done f

Re: [Fink-users] Erraticness with mozilla 0.9.9-2

2002-03-28 Thread Martin Costabel
On jeudi, mars 28, 2002, at 02:27 , Max Horn wrote: > At 9:16 Uhr +0100 28.03.2002, Martin Costabel wrote: >> >> IMHO it should be done once and for all in /sw/bin/init.{sh|csh}. > > Ugh, I disagree. That would unlimit it for the whole system. > Yes, that's what I am actually proposing. Mozilla i

Re: [Fink-users] Erraticness with mozilla 0.9.9-2

2002-03-28 Thread hysterion
Alexander Hansen wrote: > It seems to be working more consistently since I sent the message out (of > course). The problem occurs on startup, when it happens. Another shot in the dark: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=127186 "Macho static build does not launch" Although Mach-O uses

RE: [Fink-users] Can't "fink selfupdate"

2002-03-28 Thread Hester, Jeffrey W.
This must be my problem. My permissions and ownership are: drwxr-xr-x 13 root admin 398 Nov 4 15:52 fink -rw-r--r--1 hester admin1032 Jan 10 14:13 ChangeLog I wonder why fink is owned by root. Would it work if I do a "chown hester" for the entire /sw directory? Th

RE: [Fink-users] Can't "fink selfupdate"

2002-03-28 Thread Alexander Hansen
I'd say just do /sw/fink : my /sw directory is root-owned. -- Alexander K. Hansen Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University Levitated Dipole Experiment MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, 175 Albany Street, NW17-219 Cambridge, MA 02139-4213 Phone: 617-252-1818Fax:208-988-4057

Re: [Fink-users] feedback installing aalib-shlibs-1.4rc4-5

2002-03-28 Thread Alexander Hansen
What I meant is that if Gaetano has a bad make package at the head of his PATH he may not be able to build the good one (s Catch-22). -- Alexander K. Hansen Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University Levitated Dipole Experiment MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, 175 Albany Street, NW17-

Re: [Fink-users] feedback installing aalib-shlibs-1.4rc4-5

2002-03-28 Thread Martin Costabel
On jeudi, mars 28, 2002, at 02:42 , Gaetano Vitale wrote: > That may be: > gvitale% which make > /usr/local/bin/make > gvitale% which install > /usr/bin/install > > I don't have the same installation of the tools you have (mine are > the Apple Dec2001), 'cose: > gvitale% make --version > make: n

RE: [Fink-users] Can't "fink selfupdate"

2002-03-28 Thread Alexander Hansen
The original Changelog file is /sw/fink/Changelog, and for some reason you aren't able to create .new.Changelog . What do your permissions and ownership look like for /sw/fink and /sw/fink/Changelog? For comparison mine are: drwxr-xr-x 13 hansen admin 398 Feb 21 10:54 fink -rw-r--r--

Re: [Fink-users] feedback installing aalib-shlibs-1.4rc4-5

2002-03-28 Thread Alexander Hansen
It looks like the recurring issue of a BSD make put in /usr/local/bin (for GNU-Darwin?). Since /usr/local/bin comes first in the PATH normally, /usr/local/bin/make gets read before /usr/bin/make. Unfortunately, many fink packages are incompatible with BSD make. One option is to install the fink

RE: [Fink-users] Can't "fink selfupdate"

2002-03-28 Thread Hester, Jeffrey W.
Hello. The other lines were more of what I included in the e-mail. There were no errors on any of those lines. I also tried running "sudo fink selfupdate" from the /sw directory instead of my home directory and I get the same problem. I've got over 500 MB free on my partition (I only use one).

Re: [Fink-users] feedback installing aalib-shlibs-1.4rc4-5

2002-03-28 Thread Chris Devers
Please send all replies to the Fink lists so others can help figure out what's going on. I'm learning this stuff too... :) On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Gaetano Vitale wrote: > Ok, here we go: > > [localhost:/usr/bin] gvitale% ls -l make > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 7 Mar 20 12:27 make ->

Re: [Fink-users] Can't "fink selfupdate"

2002-03-28 Thread Chris Devers
On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Hester, Jeffrey W. wrote: > [snip snip snip] > ? dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/x11-wm/fvwm2-2.4.3-1.patch > > --other dists removed by me in this e-mail-- ...did any of the snipped lines look like errors, or was it more stuff like what you included? > cvs server: Updating

Re: [Fink-users] Can't "fink selfupdate"

2002-03-28 Thread Alexander Hansen
This problem shows up every so often; I've had it with .info files. Try removing the offending file, and do the selfupdate again--a new file will be downloaded. -- Alexander K. Hansen Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University Levitated Dipole Experiment MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Cent

Re: [Fink-users] feedback installing aalib-shlibs-1.4rc4-5

2002-03-28 Thread Chris Devers
On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Gaetano Vitale wrote: > That may be: > gvitale% which make > /usr/local/bin/make The standard 'make' is in /usr/bin, not /usr/local/bin. Where did you get this one? Did you build/install it yourself? > I don't have the same installation of the tools you have (mine are > t

[Fink-users] Can't "fink selfupdate"

2002-03-28 Thread Hester, Jeffrey W.
Hello all, For some reason I can't do a fink update. It gives permission problems. I'm not sure why since I run it with "sudo" and have admin permissions. Any help would be *greatly* appreciated. Why does it say I don't have the right permissions? Thanks. My printout (modified to remove many

Re: [Fink-users] Erraticness with mozilla 0.9.9-2

2002-03-28 Thread Alexander Hansen
It seems to be working more consistently since I sent the message out (of course). The problem occurs on startup, when it happens. -- Alexander K. Hansen Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University Levitated Dipole Experiment MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, 175 Albany Street, NW17-21

Re: [Fink-users] Erraticness with mozilla 0.9.9-2

2002-03-28 Thread Zorro
> >Yes I tried that, and no it didn't help. > >The problem seems to be something else. And to bear that out there were 2 posts back on 3-23 (beginners) concerning the failed compilation of Galeon: ... Wmissing- declarations -Wmissing-prototypes -Wsign-compare -Werror -c mozilla.cpp mozilla.cpp: I

Re: [Fink-users] Erraticness with mozilla 0.9.9-2

2002-03-28 Thread Max Horn
At 9:16 Uhr +0100 28.03.2002, Martin Costabel wrote: >Justin Hallett wrote: >> >> it couldn't have unless some builddepends are missing but then you figure >> it wouldn't work at all. but I've seen this since the 0.9.9 mozilla >> update. 0.9.8 worked no version of revision of 0.9.9 has worked

Re: [Fink-users] feedback installing aalib-shlibs-1.4rc4-5

2002-03-28 Thread Gaetano Vitale
That may be: gvitale% which make /usr/local/bin/make gvitale% which install /usr/bin/install I don't have the same installation of the tools you have (mine are the Apple Dec2001), 'cose: gvitale% make --version make: no target to make. (that is --version is not an option) Should I try to reinsta

Re: [Fink-users] Erraticness with mozilla 0.9.9-2

2002-03-28 Thread Chris Devers
On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Martin Costabel wrote: > Justin Hallett wrote: > > > > it couldn't have unless some builddepends are missing but then you figure > > it wouldn't work at all. but I've seen this since the 0.9.9 mozilla > > update. 0.9.8 worked no version of revision of 0.9.9 has worked for

Re: [Fink-users] feedback installing aalib-shlibs-1.4rc4-5

2002-03-28 Thread Martin Costabel
Looks like some of your tools are rotten. What about "make" and "install"? Are they what they are supposed to be? % which make /usr/bin/make % make --version GNU Make version 3.79, by Richard Stallman and Roland McGrath. % which install /usr/bin/install -- Martin On jeudi, mars 28, 2002, at 01

Re: [Fink-users] Re: package "libpng-shlibs" was not found

2002-03-28 Thread Marc Champesme
Le jeudi 28 mars 2002, à 01:12 PM, Max Horn a écrit : > At 17:49 Uhr +0100 27.03.2002, Marc Champesme wrote: >> Le mercredi 27 mars 2002, à 05:32 PM, Alexander Hansen a écrit : >> >>> Better do a selfupdate--you may have to have fink version 0.9.9 to >>> use the >>> packages with shared librarie

Re: [Fink-users] feedback installing aalib-shlibs-1.4rc4-5

2002-03-28 Thread gvitale
> Did you try 'fink install aalib', or 'fink install windowmaker', > Let me know how that goes, were the errors produced when you were > doing 'fink update-all' > > Matt Hi all, Yesterday I posted a follow up to a help request by Basil John Gilger that reported failure in updating the

Re: [Fink-users] Re: package "libpng-shlibs" was not found

2002-03-28 Thread Max Horn
At 17:49 Uhr +0100 27.03.2002, Marc Champesme wrote: >Le mercredi 27 mars 2002, à 05:32 PM, Alexander Hansen a écrit : > >>Better do a selfupdate--you may have to have fink version 0.9.9 to use the >>packages with shared libraries now. >> > >OK, but "fink selfupdate" doesn't update to 0.9.9 (the i

Re: [Fink-users] gnumeric dependencies in unstable

2002-03-28 Thread Max Horn
At 12:57 Uhr +0100 28.03.2002, Marc Champesme wrote: >Hello, > >I'm trying to install gnumeric (stable version). However, 2 >dependencies (freetype2 and gnome-print) that are needed for >gnumeric install are in unstable, is it normal ? > >Can a package be in stable whereas some of its dependenc

[Fink-users] gnumeric dependencies in unstable

2002-03-28 Thread Marc Champesme
Hello, I'm trying to install gnumeric (stable version). However, 2 dependencies (freetype2 and gnome-print) that are needed for gnumeric install are in unstable, is it normal ? Can a package be in stable whereas some of its dependencies are unstable ? it seems somewhat strange to me, no ? M

[Fink-users] How to get rid of Xtools

2002-03-28 Thread Axel Poigné
Hi Probably a stupid one, but I could not find the answer in FAQ and in the archives: Unfortunately I started to have Xtools on the system, and then Xfree86 on top. This seems to cause problems in the long run. Hence I started to rebuild the system from scratch using only Xfree86. However, I fa

[Fink-users] Re: Failed: compiling xfree86-rootless-4.2.0-2 (now it works !)

2002-03-28 Thread Marc Champesme
Le mercredi 27 mars 2002, à 05:45 PM, Derek Homeier a écrit : > You should also rebuild xfree86-base. The file system corruption does > not always make XFree86 builds fail completely, it's often just missing > random components |-(. /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xserver is part of > xfree86-base-4.2.0, >

Re: [Fink-users] Erraticness with mozilla 0.9.9-2

2002-03-28 Thread Alexander Meier
I'v also tried to get mozilla to work with the same results... no matter what I try to do, I just get a gdk-warning and an illegal instruction. do you know how I could get any debugging information? unlimit stack doesn't help at all (except that my memory gets used until only about 10 Megs of 51

Re: [Fink-users] Erraticness with mozilla 0.9.9-2

2002-03-28 Thread Martin Costabel
Justin Hallett wrote: > > it couldn't have unless some builddepends are missing but then you figure > it wouldn't work at all. but I've seen this since the 0.9.9 mozilla > update. 0.9.8 worked no version of revision of 0.9.9 has worked for me. Did you "unlimit stack"? This makes it work for me