Re: [Fink-users] xfree86-base

2002-10-09 Thread Martin Costabel
Martin Sarajervi wrote: > * Martin Costabel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > >Martin Sarajervi wrote: > >[] > > > >>You have an existing X11 installation in /usr/X11R6 and /etc/X11. > >>This package refuses to overwrite these. Remove them, then tell Fink to > >>install xfree86-base again. (The pack

Re: [Fink-users] GNOME packages

2002-10-09 Thread Martin Costabel
Adam Atlas wrote: > [] > can't download. I checked one mirror, and it looks like the directory > structure has changed. Now, instead of > /pub/GNOME/sources/1.0/eel-1.0.2.tar.bz2 for example, it would be > /pub/GNOME/sources/eel/1.0/eel-1.0.2.tar.bz2 . The change is that now > they're additionall

[Fink-users] openh323 missing?

2002-10-09 Thread Joe Izen
Is openh323 missing, even from unstable? Thanks -Joe -- [G3:root/root_v3.03.04-macosx10.2/bin] joe# fink install openh323 Information about 1542 packages read in 5 seconds. no package found for "openh323" Failed: no package found for specification 'openh323'! --

Re: [Fink-users] xfree86-base

2002-10-09 Thread Martin Sarajervi
* Martin Costabel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Martin Sarajervi wrote: > [] > >You have an existing X11 installation in /usr/X11R6 and /etc/X11. > >This package refuses to overwrite these. Remove them, then tell Fink to > >install xfree86-base again. (The package won't be recompiled.) If you > >wa

Re: [Fink-users] ham radio

2002-10-09 Thread owens
On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Charles C. Kankelborg wrote: > Is there any interest among Fink users in Ham Radio? There are a few of us running the Xastir APRS program on OS X; it builds with just a couple of tweaks, and works very well. About the only feature not supported is kernel AX.25 (since MacOS do

[Fink-users] ham radio

2002-10-09 Thread Charles C. Kankelborg
Is there any interest among Fink users in Ham Radio? I'm tempted to try compiling the following package on my Mac, and if I were lucky enough to make it work, I could share the results... http://www.qsl.net/kb1ens/cwtrainer/ There are, of course, many other possibilities related to ham radio.

Re: [Fink-users] Building software as root considered harmful

2002-10-09 Thread owens
On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Ben Hines wrote: > Indeed. However we don't really have the resources to make sure every > package has no backdoors, obviously. "what if", Bill? Well, theres > nothing we can do about that is there. Do you want software or not? > Fink already is very careful about unstable/s

[Fink-users] GNOME packages

2002-10-09 Thread Adam Atlas
Hi, I'm trying to update all my packages (fink update-all), and when it gets to a GNOME package (the first one it gets to for me is eel) it says it can't download. I checked one mirror, and it looks like the directory structure has changed. Now, instead of /pub/GNOME/sources/1.0/eel-1.0.2.tar

Re: [Fink-users] problems compiling openldap-ssl

2002-10-09 Thread Ben Hines
On Wednesday, October 9, 2002, at 01:27 PM, Martin Costabel wrote: > > /usr/bin/ld: Undefined symbols: > _ldap_url_search > > It seems that -lldap is satisfied from /usr/lib/libldap.dylib, not > from > /sw/src/openldap-ssl-2.0.23-5/openldap-2.0.23/libraries/libldap.a, and > the former doesn't

Re: [Fink-users] Problems building emacs 21.2-10

2002-10-09 Thread Ben Hines
On Wednesday, October 9, 2002, at 12:12 PM, Remi Mommsen wrote: > Hi Julien, > > > On Wednesday, October 9, 2002, at 12:01 PM, Julien Salort wrote: > >>> % fink --version >>> Package manager version: 0.10.0 >>> Distribution version: 0.4.1.cvs >>> >>> I thought the selfupdate command was enough

Re: [Fink-users] Building software as root considered harmful

2002-10-09 Thread Ben Hines
On Wednesday, October 9, 2002, at 09:31 AM, Jeremy Erwin wrote: > On Wednesday, October 9, 2002, at 09:58 AM, Bill Owens wrote: > >> At 1:25 -0700 10/9/02, Ben Hines wrote: >>> Yep. If a fink package tells you its MD5 is bad, please notify the >>> maintainer (or the list) and we will look in

Re: [Fink-users] Xemacs, reftex problem?

2002-10-09 Thread Ettore Aldrovandi
>From: David Ros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [Fink-users] Xemacs, reftex problem? >To: Jeff Whitaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >X-Original-Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 23:14:49 +0200 (CEST) >Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 23:14:49 +0200 (CEST) > >David Ros wrote: >> >> --- Jeff Whitaker <

Re: [Fink-users] Xemacs, reftex problem?

2002-10-09 Thread Ettore Aldrovandi
>From: David Ros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [Fink-users] Xemacs, reftex problem? >To: Jeff Whitaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >X-Original-Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 23:14:49 +0200 (CEST) >Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 23:14:49 +0200 (CEST) > >David Ros wrote: >> >> --- Jeff Whitaker <

Re: [Fink-users] Xemacs, reftex problem?

2002-10-09 Thread David Ros
David Ros wrote: > > --- Jeff Whitaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : >> >> David: I've uploaded a package for xemacs-21.4.9 >> to unstable CVS (for >> 10.2). Please try it and let us know if it also >> has the reftex problem. >> >> -Jeff > > >Jeff, > >First thing I'll do tomorrow morning i

Re: [Fink-users] problems compiling openldap-ssl

2002-10-09 Thread Martin Costabel
I get the same error as Jason and Ben. The critical command is cc -fno-common -I../../include -I../../include -I/sw/include/db3 -I/sw/include/cyrus-sasl -no-cpp-precomp -I/sw/include -L/sw/src/openldap-ssl-2.0.23-5/openldap-2.0.23/libraries -L/sw/lib -o apitest apitest.o -lldap -llber -llutil

Re: [Fink-users] Xemacs, reftex problem?

2002-10-09 Thread David Ros
--- Jeff Whitaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > > David: I've uploaded a package for xemacs-21.4.9 to > unstable CVS (for > 10.2). Please try it and let us know if it also has > the reftex problem. > > -Jeff > Jeff, First thing I'll do tomorrow morning is to try that. I'll keep the list

Re: [Fink-users] Problems building emacs 21.2-10

2002-10-09 Thread Remi Mommsen
Hi Julien, On Wednesday, October 9, 2002, at 12:01 PM, Julien Salort wrote: >> % fink --version >> Package manager version: 0.10.0 >> Distribution version: 0.4.1.cvs >> >> I thought the selfupdate command was enough to get the latest fink. It >> seems I was wrong... >> >> I'll get the latest ve

Re: [Fink-users] Problems building emacs 21.2-10

2002-10-09 Thread Julien Salort
> % fink --version > Package manager version: 0.10.0 > Distribution version: 0.4.1.cvs > > I thought the selfupdate command was enough to get the latest fink. It > seems I was wrong... > > I'll get the latest version from the website then... I have not been able to find it. Maybe I didn't go t

Re: [Fink-users] problems compiling openldap-ssl

2002-10-09 Thread jfm
I just re-built openldap-ssl twice (the second time moving /usr/local away, just to confirm), with identical results. The log is perfect (only curiosity : not updating unwritable cache ./config.cache ... checking for ANSI C header files... yes ... checking for ANSI C header files... (cached) dis

Re: [Fink-users] Xemacs, reftex problem?

2002-10-09 Thread Jeff Whitaker
David: I've uploaded a package for xemacs-21.4.9 to unstable CVS (for 10.2). Please try it and let us know if it also has the reftex problem. -Jeff On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, David Ros wrote: > So I was wondering, isn't it possible to install a > (much) older version of xemacs via fink? (I'm thinkin

Re: [Fink-users] ncurses not required on Jaguar?

2002-10-09 Thread Benjamin Reed
On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 12:24, Alwyn wrote: > On Wednesday, October 9, 2002, at 01:13 pm, Chris Leishman wrote: > > > Is there any reason to have fink install libncurses anymore? > > That is a very good question. I believe you posted it before, and > no-one answered. Perhaps nobody knows? No on

Re: [Fink-users] Xemacs

2002-10-09 Thread Joel Hacker
> Stephen Anderson wrote: > >> My main reason to use fink is to have xemacs Have you tried this: http://homepage.mac.com/pjarvis/xemacs.html I don't know anything about LaTex so I have no idea whether or not this would work for you, but it may be worth looking into. It's a native Aqua imple

Re: [Fink-users] Building software as root considered harmful

2002-10-09 Thread Jeremy Erwin
On Wednesday, October 9, 2002, at 09:58 AM, Bill Owens wrote: > At 1:25 -0700 10/9/02, Ben Hines wrote: >> Yep. If a fink package tells you its MD5 is bad, please notify the >> maintainer (or the list) and we will look in to it. >> >> Fink MD5s are stored in the .info files, locally, so a hack

Re: [Fink-users] ncurses not required on Jaguar?

2002-10-09 Thread Alwyn
On Wednesday, October 9, 2002, at 01:13 pm, Chris Leishman wrote: > Is there any reason to have fink install libncurses anymore? That is a very good question. I believe you posted it before, and no-one answered. Perhaps nobody knows? Alwyn -

Re: [Fink-users] Building software as root considered harmful

2002-10-09 Thread Bill Owens
At 1:25 -0700 10/9/02, Ben Hines wrote: >Yep. If a fink package tells you its MD5 is bad, please notify the >maintainer (or the list) and we will look in to it. > >Fink MD5s are stored in the .info files, locally, so a hacker cannot >change them unless they hack fink CVS AND the site with the ta

Re: [Fink-users] Xemacs, reftex problem?

2002-10-09 Thread David Ros
Stephen Anderson wrote: > My main reason to use fink is to have xemacs, which I use as the only > true editor for (La)TeX files. This has been a happy combination for a > long time. > > Recently, following the acquisition of a new dual-G4 machine that came > with 10.2.1 installed, I have reb

Re: [Fink-users] problems compiling openldap-ssl

2002-10-09 Thread jfm
On Wednesday, Oct 9, 2002, at 08:38 Europe/Brussels, Ben Hines wrote: > Doesn't compile here either. I don't think it was ever 10.2 ready, but > was added to 10.2 tree by jfm (through drm. :) jfm can you still build > this? My last log is from sep 17, and clean. I don't see what might have ch

[Fink-users] why does ./compile never find jpeg-6b? jpeg-yes, 6b-no

2002-10-09 Thread lenny bruce
I have jpeg-6b installed through fink and I've done some reading from the ijg.org site but I just don't understand what else needs to be installed so jpeg-6b's dev headers will be recognized by the compile script I have my environment variables set and all that other stuff but something is missin

Re: [Fink-users] Problems building emacs 21.2-10

2002-10-09 Thread Julien Salort
> # fink --version > Package manager version: 0.10.0.cvs > Distribution version: 0.4.9.cvs % fink --version Package manager version: 0.10.0 Distribution version: 0.4.1.cvs I thought the selfupdate command was enough to get the latest fink. It seems I was wrong... I'll get the latest version fro

[Fink-users] Burn CD with my fink snapshot for binary installs

2002-10-09 Thread Josh Kuperman
I have successfully been using 10.2 w/ Fink on my G3 Powerbook laptop. I have built KDE and quite a few other programs that take a while to build and updated. I'm getting set to update my iMac which is also a G3. Previously I used the iMac as a build host for the Powerbook when I was running 10.1

[Fink-users] ncurses not required on Jaguar?

2002-10-09 Thread Chris Leishman
Fink requires the installation of libncurses, along with all it's terminfo files. But MacOSX 10.2 comes with libncurses as well. The only difference seems to be that the apple version also has terminfo files for supporting the Apple Terminal application correctly. Unfortunately, fink package

Re: [Fink-users] Building software as root considered harmful

2002-10-09 Thread Carsten Bormann
First of all, it's great to hear that Fink people have thought about the issue. I'm just not quite sure the level of protection that affords is already sufficient to make compilation as root a complete non-issue. > Yep. If a fink package tells you its MD5 is bad, please notify the > maintainer

Re: [Fink-users] Building software as root considered harmful

2002-10-09 Thread Ben Hines
On Wednesday, October 9, 2002, at 12:33 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: > Carsten Bormann wrote: > [] >> Given the variety of sources we use for obtaining source files, this >> is just an accident waiting to happen over and over again in fink. > > This is prevented by the use of MD5 checksums in Fi

Re: [Fink-users] xfree86-base

2002-10-09 Thread Martin Costabel
Martin Sarajervi wrote: [] > You have an existing X11 installation in /usr/X11R6 and /etc/X11. > This package refuses to overwrite these. Remove them, then tell Fink to > install xfree86-base again. (The package won't be recompiled.) If you > want > to keep your X11 installation, install system-xf

Re: [Fink-users] Building software as root considered harmful

2002-10-09 Thread Martin Costabel
Carsten Bormann wrote: [] > Given the variety of sources we use for obtaining source files, this is > just an accident waiting to happen over and over again in fink. This is prevented by the use of MD5 checksums in Fink. -- Martin --- T