Re: [Fink-users] freetype errors preventing mozilla install

2005-03-26 Thread Martin Costabel
veera venkataramani wrote: [] I tried to install mozilla-mailnews but had errors with freetype libs. prompt> fink install mozilla-mailnews fink needs help picking an alternative to satisfy a virtual dependency. The candidates: (1) freetype2-hinting-dev: TrueType font rendering library, headers

[Fink-users] freetype errors preventing mozilla install

2005-03-26 Thread veera venkataramani
I use Package manager version: 0.24.1 Distribution version: 0.7.1.rsync on my Powerbook 12" running 10.3.8. I tried to install mozilla-mailnews but had errors with freetype libs. prompt> fink install mozilla-mailnews fink needs help picking an alternative to satisfy a virtual dependency. The ca

Re: [Fink-users] rc.d, init.d? how are daemons started

2005-03-26 Thread Martin Costabel
John Harrold wrote: Howdy, I wanted to play around with some web development stuff I'm working on. So I installed apache and postgresql with fink. Now I wanted to be able to start and stop the daemons. So my question is how are scripts started. I found the following directory: /sw/etc/daemons which

[Fink-users] Re: Quickest way to execute Fink commands?

2005-03-26 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Understood everything but this (and thanks for the comments): Chris Zubrzycki wrote: Use screen --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products t

Re: [Fink-users] Re: rc.d, init.d? how are daemons started

2005-03-26 Thread John Harrold
Sometime in March Chris Zubrzycki assaulted the keyboard and produced: | We use a program called daemonic. Ok. Just running daemonic with no arguments gives me the following options: enable disable install update remove dump I tried enable, update and install with 'apache2'. However the

Re: [Fink-users] Re: Quickest way to execute Fink commands?

2005-03-26 Thread Chris Zubrzycki
On Mar 26, 2005, at 8:43 PM, Aaron Davies wrote: On Mar 26, 2005, at 4:50 PM, Kyle Skrinak wrote: Robert T Wyatt austin.utexas.edu> writes: [snip] I have found that prefixing the commands with 'nice' (see 'man nice') is satisfactory for our general purposes. [snip] Thanks for the suggestion to

Re: [Fink-users] Re: rc.d, init.d? how are daemons started

2005-03-26 Thread Chris Zubrzycki
On Mar 26, 2005, at 7:22 PM, Robert T Wyatt wrote: John, Recently I installed a MacOS X program called BOINC daemon. In its ReadMe file it discusses using SystemStarter to start and stop the daemon. Its installer script sets it up to run as a daemon. HTH, Robert John Harrold wrote: Howdy, I wa

Re: [Fink-users] Re: Quickest way to execute Fink commands?

2005-03-26 Thread Aaron Davies
On Mar 26, 2005, at 4:50 PM, Kyle Skrinak wrote: Robert T Wyatt austin.utexas.edu> writes: [snip] I have found that prefixing the commands with 'nice' (see 'man nice') is satisfactory for our general purposes. [snip] Thanks for the suggestion to try nice-ing my fink priority down. I greatly appre

[Fink-users] Re: Quickest way to execute Fink commands?

2005-03-26 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Still, there is nice (note the second sentence, from 'man nice'): nice runs utility at an altered scheduling priority. If an increment is given, it is used; otherwise an increment of 10 is assumed. The super- user can run utilities with priorities higher than normal by using a neg-

[Fink-users] Re: rc.d, init.d? how are daemons started

2005-03-26 Thread Robert T Wyatt
John, Recently I installed a MacOS X program called BOINC daemon. In its ReadMe file it discusses using SystemStarter to start and stop the daemon. Its installer script sets it up to run as a daemon. HTH, Robert John Harrold wrote: Howdy, I wanted to play around with some web development stuff I

[Fink-users] rc.d, init.d? how are daemons started

2005-03-26 Thread John Harrold
Howdy, I wanted to play around with some web development stuff I'm working on. So I installed apache and postgresql with fink. Now I wanted to be able to start and stop the daemons. So my question is how are scripts started. I found the following directory: /sw/etc/daemons which I believe has so

Re: [Fink-users] Failed: phase compiling: kdesdk3-3.4.0-11 failed

2005-03-26 Thread Neil Tiffin
I get a slightly different failure ld: warning prebinding not disabled because (__DATA segment (address = 0x1b000 size = 0x2000) of /usr/X11R6/lib/libexpat.0.dylib overlaps with __TEXT segment (address = 0x0 size = 0x56000) of /usr/X11R6/lib/libfreetype.6.dylib ld: warning prebinding not disable

Re: [Fink-users] Quickest way to execute Fink commands?

2005-03-26 Thread Dan Sommers
On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 17:48:09 + (UTC), Kyle Skrinak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... As we know, running Fink can bog down a system. I'm aware that > this isn't so much fink as it is the many process call-outs that > happen while compiling. During this time frame, my system (G4 667 MHz > Powerb

[Fink-users] Re: Quickest way to execute Fink commands?

2005-03-26 Thread Kyle Skrinak
Robert T Wyatt austin.utexas.edu> writes: [snip] > I have found that prefixing the commands with 'nice' (see 'man nice') is > satisfactory for our general purposes. [snip] Thanks for the suggestion to try nice-ing my fink priority down. I greatly appreciate your help! I've done this in the past

Re: [Fink-users] More xaw3d problems: xfig crashes

2005-03-26 Thread Paul INDELICATO
Thanks Martin, it worked beautifuly. Martin Costabel wrote: Viv Kendon wrote: [] AFAIK from earlier reports on this list, xfig really doesn't work with xaw3d > 1.5-8 and us xfig users will have to stick with 1.5-8 until this is fixed. I verified I got the same error while testing 1.5-11 with so

Re: [Fink-users] More xaw3d problems: xfig crashes

2005-03-26 Thread Martin Costabel
Viv Kendon wrote: [] AFAIK from earlier reports on this list, xfig really doesn't work with xaw3d > 1.5-8 and us xfig users will have to stick with 1.5-8 until this is fixed. I verified I got the same error while testing 1.5-11 with something else, but didn't bother recompiling xfig, I just dow

[Fink-users] Re: Quickest way to execute Fink commands?

2005-03-26 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Kyle, Since my home computer is shared with my significant other, we frequently need to use the computer while fink is compiling the sometimes hundreds of packages during the hours/days that it takes to do this. I have found that prefixing the commands with 'nice' (see 'man nice') is satisfact

Re: [Fink-users] Quickest way to execute Fink commands?

2005-03-26 Thread Chris Zubrzycki
On Mar 26, 2005, at 12:48 PM, Kyle Skrinak wrote: I'm sorry if this is covered already. As we know, running Fink can bog down a system. I'm aware that this isn't so much fink as it is the many process call-outs that happen while compiling. During this time frame, my system (G4 667 MHz Powerbook)

[Fink-users] Quickest way to execute Fink commands?

2005-03-26 Thread Kyle Skrinak
I'm sorry if this is covered already. As we know, running Fink can bog down a system. I'm aware that this isn't so much fink as it is the many process call-outs that happen while compiling. During this time frame, my system (G4 667 MHz Powerbook) becomes nearly useless. So this has led me to wonder

[Fink-users] Re: gnome-python2-py23

2005-03-26 Thread Robert Wyatt
Jeremy, no expert here, but I think 'fink show-deps foo' is what you want; as in: fink show-deps gnome-python2-py23 or fink show-deps pygtk-py23 Jeremy Higgs wrote: Just out of interest... what's the best way to find the runtime and build dependencies for a library? I think I've now got most of

[Fink-users] Re: Re: gnome-python2-py23

2005-03-26 Thread Flatman
Gnome-python2-py23 is needed for Blogtk At least it was last week ... Erik On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 12:21:35 +0100, Martin Costabel wrote: > Daniel Macks wrote: >> Without addressing this specific error, I'd note that 2.0.0 is a year >> and a half old...the 2.0 series went to 2.0.3. But if gnome-pyth

Re: [Fink-users] More xaw3d problems: xfig crashes

2005-03-26 Thread Viv Kendon
On Sat, 26 Mar 2005, Paul INDELICATO wrote: Now I have the same problem with xfig 3.2.5-2, but recompiling does not help: xfig crashes as soon as I click on the file menu (but I can draw). As anybody experienced that problem? AFAIK from earlier reports on this list, xfig really doesn't work with x

[Fink-users] Failed: phase compiling: kdesdk3-3.4.0-11 failed

2005-03-26 Thread Claus Atzenbeck
Hi, I get the following error message: *** g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I/sw/include/subversion-1 -I/sw/include/neon @SVN_DB_INCLUDES@ -I/sw/include/apr-0 -I/sw/include/apr-0 -I/sw/include -I/sw/include/subversion-1/ -I/sw/include/apr-0 -I/sw/include/apr-0 -I/sw/includ

Re: [Fink-users] Missing: fink-0.24.2.tar.gz

2005-03-26 Thread Kyle Skrinak
On 3/26/05 7:24 AM, "Martin Costabel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > The sourceforge servers are acting up again. You can manually download > the file from one of the other sourceforge mirrors; I had success with > one of > > ovh.dl.sourceforge.net > heanet.dl.sourceforge.net > belnet.dl.sourceforg

Re: [Fink-users] Missing: fink-0.24.2.tar.gz

2005-03-26 Thread Martin Costabel
Kyle Skrinak wrote: I ran fink selfupdate at 6:30 am EST this morning. There appears to be a new version of fink but it is unavailable from any mirror, or at least it didn't appear after choosing "retry another mirror" option repeatedly as I watched the curl url change to various locations. The sou

[Fink-users] Missing: fink-0.24.2.tar.gz

2005-03-26 Thread Kyle Skrinak
I ran fink selfupdate at 6:30 am EST this morning. There appears to be a new version of fink but it is unavailable from any mirror, or at least it didn't appear after choosing "retry another mirror" option repeatedly as I watched the curl url change to various locations.

[Fink-users] More xaw3d problems: xfig crashes

2005-03-26 Thread Paul INDELICATO
I have had some problems like the one I saw recently on the list with xaw3d. I had to recompile Xemacs, which was crashing on startup, just after it was initializing x-symbol, and while fontifying the (only) open buffer Scratch. I had to downgrade to xaw3d 1.5-8 first (recompiling did not help).