[Fink-users] Fink Needs You

2002-11-15 Thread Ben Hines
If you are using any fink package on 10.2 that is not listed in "stable" in FinkCommander or http://fink.sourceforge.net/pdb/index.php (current-stable), please let the maintainer know. We're not asking for a full QA report or even testing of every feature, "I tried this and it seems to work fin

[Fink-users] xfree86 threaded worth it?

2002-11-15 Thread D. Kevin McGrath
Anyone have any feelings on whether the threaded versions of X are worth the time needed to install, versus the XonX binary install? D --- This sf.net email is sponsored by: To learn the basics of securing your web site with SSL, click here t

Re: [Fink-users] how to install the octave-forge package

2002-11-15 Thread Ben Hines
On Friday, November 15, 2002, at 02:29 PM, Roland Wegmann wrote: Hello Did someone of you install octave-forge package ( octave.sourceforge.net/>) after installing octave via 'fink install octave'? If this is the case, could I have some tips, how this can be done. It used to be in fink, bu

Re: [Fink-users] Cursor Weirdness in XDarwin

2002-11-15 Thread Ian L.
Gotcha, and thank you. On 11/15/02 7:29 PM, Benjamin Reed wrote: > On Friday, November 15, 2002, at 07:17 PM, Ian L. wrote: > >> Apologieswhich "big warning" are you referring to? I installed >> Fink and >> compiled every package from source on a fresh installation of 10.2 as >> well >> as r

[Fink-users] daemonic

2002-11-15 Thread Josh Kuperman
I installed Bind9 w/ fink, configured it, enabled it with daemonic. Made my best guesses as to what should be in /etc/hostconfig and other files. I could not find anything on how to move a standard service like DNS so it was controlled by daemonic instead of /System/Library/StartupItems and /etc

Re: [Fink-users] Cursor Weirdness in XDarwin

2002-11-15 Thread Benjamin Reed
On Friday, November 15, 2002, at 07:17 PM, Ian L. wrote: Apologieswhich "big warning" are you referring to? I installed Fink and compiled every package from source on a fresh installation of 10.2 as well as ran `fink selfupdate-cvs' shortly after the black-cursort problem appeared, if that

Re: [Fink-users] unable to update to fink 11.0

2002-11-15 Thread Ken Engel
The first line about v-string puzzles me, but after that seems to indicate your PERL5LIB is not set correctly. PERL5LIB should contain /sw/lib/perl5 Have you run either of /sw/bin/init.csh (or /sw/bin/init.sh if your shell is bash)? On Friday, November 15, 2002, at 09:29 AM, Artemio Gonzalez-L

Re: [Fink-users] Cursor Weirdness in XDarwin

2002-11-15 Thread Benjamin Reed
On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 17:32, Ian L. wrote: > Starting about two days ago my cursors in full-screen X11 lost everything > but the cursor masks. That is, all my cursors are solid black...no white > edges in the default "X" cursor or the standard arrow pointer. It's pretty > difficult to use with blac

[Fink-users] Cursor Weirdness in XDarwin

2002-11-15 Thread Ian L.
Starting about two days ago my cursors in full-screen X11 lost everything but the cursor masks. That is, all my cursors are solid black...no white edges in the default "X" cursor or the standard arrow pointer. It's pretty difficult to use with black-background xterms. Has anyone else experienced t

[Fink-users] how to install the octave-forge package

2002-11-15 Thread Roland Wegmann
Hello Did someone of you install octave-forge package () after installing octave via 'fink install octave'? If this is the case, could I have some tips, how this can be done. By the way: Are there Howto's, Manuals, etc. addressing the issue of compiling source code under Mac OS X. Thanks in adv

Re: [Fink-users] Problems with XEmacs and libXaw3d

2002-11-15 Thread Alwyn
On Friday, November 15, 2002, at 02:41 pm, Martin Costabel wrote: Incidentally, on starting XEmacs, I now get the following message, which I have not noticed before: '_XF86BigFontQueryFont: could not attach shm segment.' At a guess, I'd say that this was a problem with shared memory on Darwin

[Fink-users] tcltk helps!! Now I can compile r-base

2002-11-15 Thread Roland Wegmann
Hello David, Hello Martin Thank you for giving me the hint about tcltk. Now I have in nice r-base installation on my iMac. By the way: Martin, please excuse my mistake with the subject line. Thanks in advance for helping me Roland Wegmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

[Fink-users] [OT] Windows Acces via Samba to OSX Server

2002-11-15 Thread Roy Mendelssohn
Sorry for Off topic post, but we are stuck with a problem. We are trying to get Windows users to access OSX server 10.2.2 - they are running Windows XP. Whenever they try logging in, XP puts their computer name in front of their login. A recent MacWorld reveiw said you had to enable Password

[Fink-users] unable to update to fink 11.0

2002-11-15 Thread Artemio Gonzalez-Lopez
I am trying to update to fink 11.0 as per the instructions at http://fink.sourceforge.net/news/jaguar.php. However, when I execute the command sudo /sw/lib/fink/postinstall.pl I get the following error message: v-string in use/require non-portable at /sw/lib/fink/postinstall.pl line 27. Can'

Re: [Fink-users] Problems with XEmacs and libXaw3d

2002-11-15 Thread Alwyn
On Friday, November 15, 2002, at 02:41 pm, Martin Costabel wrote: Reinstalling xaw3d was necessary, rebuilding xemacs probably not. You are correct. Had I had the presence of mind also to reinstal xaw3d-shlibs, I would not have needed to rebuild xemacs. Alwyn

Re: [Fink-users] libxine and xfree86-base-threaded etc.

2002-11-15 Thread Alwyn
On Thursday, November 14, 2002, at 08:43 pm, Jeff Whitaker wrote: This could be a Matlab bug, or a bug in Apple's posix threads implementation (which is known to incomplete). I was under the impression that as of Darwin 6 (Mac OS X 10.2), Apple had made their pthreads implementation fully, or

[Fink-users] Problems with XEmacs and libXaw3d

2002-11-15 Thread Alwyn
I have Mac OS X 10.2.2 and have replaced my XFree86 software with the Fink-supplied 'threaded' versions as recommended by the experts on this list. (See the thread entitled 'libxine and xfree86-base-threaded etc.'.) I then found that XEmacs will not run; it fails with the message: 'dyld: xemac

Re: [Fink-users] vim question

2002-11-15 Thread dan
On Friday, November 15, 2002, at 07:22 , Jim Kuo wrote: Hi All, I am new to fink, so please excuse me if this is a stupid question. I installed vim on my 10.2.2 by doing "fink install vim", the installation went fine and without errors. However, when i type "vim" in xterm, I only get the non

[Fink-users] vim question

2002-11-15 Thread Jim Kuo
Hi All, I am new to fink, so please excuse me if this is a stupid question. I installed vim on my 10.2.2 by doing "fink install vim", the installation went fine and without errors. However, when i type "vim" in xterm, I only get the non-X version of vim. I thought the vim package is the X vers