Re: [Fink-users] Continuing story of problems with xfree86 on 10.2.1

2002-09-02 Thread Martin Costabel
David R. Morrison wrote: > mv: rename /sw/src/root-xfree86-base-4.2.0.1-1/sw/../Applications to > /sw/src/root-xfree86-rootless-4.2.0.1-1/sw/../Applications: No such > file or directory > > This *is* affected by linking /sw to another location, because of the leading > /sw in the path. Sorry t

Re: [Fink-users] [OT] Spreadsheets that *write* ".xls" files?

2002-09-02 Thread BABA Yoshihiko
BABA Yoshihiko wrote: > Chris Devers wrote: > >> On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, Philip Ershler wrote: >> >> >>> If it were me, I'd ask the prof if I could submit a tab delimited file. >>> Excel can open that kind of file "almost" directly. >> > > Not finkized, but OpenOffice.org writes the files as .xml be

Re: [Fink-users] Continuing story of problems with xfree86 on 10.2.1

2002-09-02 Thread David R. Morrison
mv: rename /sw/src/root-xfree86-base-4.2.0.1-1/sw/../Applications to /sw/src/root-xfree86-rootless-4.2.0.1-1/sw/../Applications: No such file or directory This *is* affected by linking /sw to another location, because of the leading /sw in the path. The version of the fink package manager in

Re: [Fink-users] [OT] Spreadsheets that *write* ".xls" files?

2002-09-02 Thread BABA Yoshihiko
Chris Devers wrote: > On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, Philip Ershler wrote: > > >>If it were me, I'd ask the prof if I could submit a tab delimited file. >>Excel can open that kind of file "almost" directly. Not finkized, but OpenOffice.org writes the files as .xml beautifully. It is opensource, and its n

Re: [Fink-users] Python-mysql

2002-09-02 Thread Fernando Pereira
On 9/2/02 8:54 PM, "Dimitris Dimitriadis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for your feedback. I had already changed the paths in the build > script to point to /sw/..., but it didn't do the trick. It didn't work > after using the information in the updated FAQ either. I haven't downloaded pyth

Re: [Fink-users] 10.2 -- How to test upgrade fink

2002-09-02 Thread Ben Hines
On Monday, September 2, 2002, at 05:10 PM, Ronald Florence wrote: I realize that 10.2 is new. If you, or anyone else in the group, has a concrete suggestion of how to get fink to update itself under MacOS 10.2, I'd welcome it, and would be willing to contribute to debugging the scheme. Yes, i d

Re: [Fink-users] Python-mysql

2002-09-02 Thread Dimitris Dimitriadis
Fernando, Ben, Thanks for your feedback. I had already changed the paths in the build script to point to /sw/..., but it didn't do the trick. It didn't work after using the information in the updated FAQ either. I suppose I have to dig a bit deeper. /Dimitris On Tuesday, September 3, 2002,

Re: [Fink-users] Python-mysql

2002-09-02 Thread Fernando Pereira
On 9/2/02 8:42 PM, "Ben Hines" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... but you didn't tell him how. Good point, I assumed that he would go and read the package's "README" or "INSTALL", which typically say what to do to change the default library path. > > In the future, you can point folks at the new

Re: [Fink-users] Python-mysql

2002-09-02 Thread Ben Hines
On Monday, September 2, 2002, at 05:23 PM, Fernando Pereira wrote: > On 9/2/02 8:03 PM, "Dimitris Dimitriadis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> New to the list. I was scanning through the archives and saw that >> python-mysql is not among the existing packages, so I tried to build >> it >> m

Re: [Fink-users] Python-mysql

2002-09-02 Thread Fernando Pereira
On 9/2/02 8:03 PM, "Dimitris Dimitriadis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > New to the list. I was scanning through the archives and saw that > python-mysql is not among the existing packages, so I tried to build it > myself. Having failed (for anyone interested, the errors are inlined > below), I wan

Re: [Fink-users] (no subject)

2002-09-02 Thread Fernando Pereira
On 9/2/02 8:10 PM, "Ronald Florence" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Monday, September 2, 2002, at 07:06 PM, Fernando Pereira wrote: > >> 2. If you still want to update under 10.2, read the extensive >> discussion of >> how to go about it in the fink-users archive. It may work for you, as >>

Re: [Fink-users] Re: Broken vim

2002-09-02 Thread Derek Homeier
On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 09:31:41PM -0400, Ian L. wrote: > On 8/31/02 8:59 PM, Thomas Harrington enlightened us with: > > > Those are the same errors that I had. For what it's worth, you get the > > same errors if you grab the Unix source from www.vim.org and try to > > build it yourself. So it'

Re: [Fink-users] (no subject)

2002-09-02 Thread Ronald Florence
On Monday, September 2, 2002, at 07:06 PM, Fernando Pereira wrote: > 2. If you still want to update under 10.2, read the extensive > discussion of > how to go about it in the fink-users archive. It may work for you, as > it did > for me, but you may want to wait unless you are comfortable wit

[Fink-users] Python-mysql

2002-09-02 Thread Dimitris Dimitriadis
Hi all, New to the list. I was scanning through the archives and saw that python-mysql is not among the existing packages, so I tried to build it myself. Having failed (for anyone interested, the errors are inlined below), I wanted to ask if anyone has built/is planning to include this in the

Re: [Fink-users] [OT] Spreadsheets that *write* ".xls" files?

2002-09-02 Thread Chris Devers
On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, Philip Ershler wrote: > If it were me, I'd ask the prof if I could submit a tab delimited file. > Excel can open that kind of file "almost" directly. Possible cheat: save as CSV/TSV/etc, then set the file extension to .xls. Recentish versions of Office just might be smart eno

Re: [Fink-users] [OT] Spreadsheets that *write* ".xls" files?

2002-09-02 Thread Philip Ershler
If it were me, I'd ask the prof if I could submit a tab delimited file. Excel can open that kind of file "almost" directly. Phil On Monday, September 2, 2002, at 05:07 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > Do any of you know of a (preferably fink-ized, preferably open > source) spreadsheet p

[Fink-users] [OT] Spreadsheets that *write* ".xls" files?

2002-09-02 Thread segment289
Hi, Do any of you know of a (preferably fink-ized, preferably open source) spreadsheet program that can *write* ".xls" files? My physics professor requires us to turn in our experiment results in that format, and running down to the computer labs at school isn't my idea of a good time. AFAICT,

[Fink-users] (no subject)

2002-09-02 Thread Ronald Florence
On MacOS 10.2, the command `sudo fink update-all' fails on the link of libreadline.4.2.dylib: + ld -arch ppc -dylib -dynamic -all_load -force_cpusubtype_ALL -no_arch_warnings -dylib_compatibility_version 4.2 -dylib_current_version 4.2 -dylib_install_name /sw/lib/libreadline.4.2.dylib -ldylib1

Re: [Fink-users] Continuing story of problems with xfree86 on 10.2.1

2002-09-02 Thread Martin Costabel
Alan Mortensen wrote: > Well, I completely wiped (as recommended) and reninstalled fink. The > basepath is correct (/sw). I also added unstable to fink.conf as > recommended as well. I did a build and had readline problems. So I did > a cvs self update and readline built fine... but after t

[Fink-users] Continuing story of problems with xfree86 on 10.2.1

2002-09-02 Thread Alan Mortensen
Well, I completely wiped (as recommended) and reninstalled fink. The basepath is correct (/sw). I also added unstable to fink.conf as recommended as well. I did a build and had readline problems. So I did a cvs self update and readline built fine... but after the cvs update xfree86-base wo

Re: [Fink-users] emacs21

2002-09-02 Thread Ben Hines
On Monday, September 2, 2002, at 07:28 AM, Jean Richelle wrote: > Hi, > > In the page http://fink.sourceforge.net/pdb/package.php/emacs21 > version 2-6 appears to be in the "current-stable" but it does not > appear in the list of packages shown by dselect and "apt-get -s > install emacs21" give

[Fink-users] emacs21

2002-09-02 Thread Jean Richelle
Hi, In the page http://fink.sourceforge.net/pdb/package.php/emacs21 version 2-6 appears to be in the "current-stable" but it does not appear in the list of packages shown by dselect and "apt-get -s install emacs21" gives "Couldn't find the package". I suppose that it is because the version I'm a

[Fink-users] fink update-all

2002-09-02 Thread Ronald Florence
I find that I encounter problems when I give the command `fink update-all', each of which aborts the update: curl -f -L -s -S -O http://dev.scriptics.com/download/tcl/tcl8_3/tk8.3.3.tar.gz curl: (6) Couldn't resolve host 'ftp.tcl.tk' ### execution of curl failed, exit code 6 Downloading the fi

Re: [Fink-users] 10.2 users & groups

2002-09-02 Thread Finlay Dobbie
On Monday, September 2, 2002, at 05:07 am, Jason J. Park wrote: > On a side note... should any consideration be given to removing the > mysql user from the passwd package in the 10.2 tree? 10.2 already has > a mysql user and group (uid/gid = 74) entered in netinfo. So it does. > I'm not su

[Fink-users] how does XFree86 4.2.0.1-1 impact OroborOSX-v0.8b2's privateXDarwin?

2002-09-02 Thread lenny bruce
The threaded XFree86 4.2.0.1-1 has been released on Fink. OroborOSX-v0.8b2 contains a private XDarwin within its package. How does this new XFree86 impact OroborOSX-v0.8b2 use of a private XDarwin? Should we use the new XDarwin? Can the new XDarwin be modified? There once was an interleaving sc

Re: [Fink-users] Fwd: [Fink-beginners] problems compiling gnome-libs

2002-09-02 Thread Martin Costabel
Jeff Goodman wrote: [] >>http://www.mail-archive.com/fink-beginners@lists.sourceforge.net/msg02403.h >>tml > > > Thanks for the reply, Martin. I rebuilt gtk-docs, but when trying to install > mc, I still get: > > -- Installing ./html/index.sgml > /usr/bin/install: ./html/index.sgml: No such f