[Fink-users] error in bison .info

2012-09-28 Thread Matthew Parry
I've just tried to update bison (on an Intel 10.5.8 MBA) and noticed "BuildConflicts:" has been repeated in the .info file. Manually editing it out makes things run again but I guess it should corrected at source. Cheers, Matt ---

[Fink-users] lyx-x11 1.6.10-46 installs but won't run

2014-09-16 Thread Matthew Parry
Hi everyone, I've just updated lyx-x11 to lyx-x11 1.6.10-46 on my machine running 10.6. However, when I try to run the executable I get this: [tinman..~] 26) lyx terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_cast' what(): std::bad_cast /sw/bin/lyx: line 15: 65384 Abort trap

Re: [Fink-users] lyx-x11 1.6.10-46 installs but won't run

2014-09-16 Thread Matthew Parry
Hi Alex, I guess I missed the memo on 10.6! I will have the lyx .deb and .info files floating around on a backup; can I use those to recompile an older version of lyx? Best, Matt On 17 Sep 2014, at 15:13, Alexander Hansen wrote: > On 9/16/14, 7:03 PM, Matthew Parry wrote: >&g

Re: [Fink-users] lyx-x11 1.6.10-46 installs but won't run

2014-09-21 Thread Matthew Parry
Hi Alex, Thanks so much for your help. I was able to downgrade to lyx-x11 1.6.10-45 using the older .deb file, without any trouble at all. Cheers, Matt On 20 Sep 2014, at 04:10, Alexander Hansen wrote: > On 9/16/14, 9:10 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: >> On 9/16/14, 8:31 PM, Matt

[Fink-users] maxima and schelter plot

2003-10-16 Thread Matthew Parry
i have been having some trouble with the schelter plot window: the menu doesn't seem to work. searching around, i found this... Non functional menu is a known bug of openmath plot window (Maxima bug #694179). Bug depends on the underlying window manager. As far as I know it shows up under sawfi

Re: [Fink-users] xmaxima errors

2003-11-14 Thread Matthew Parry
if memory serves, you might have to do a locate update: sudo /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, A A wrote: > Hello and thank you for your help. I am running Mac OS X 10.3.1 along with > Fink 0.6.1.cvs and I installed Maxima (among other things), and when I try > to start xmaxima,

Re: [Fink-users] aspell and 10.3?

2003-11-27 Thread Matthew Parry
i have also found aspell not to work with pico (4.6) . unfortunately, i only got aspell after i upgraded to 10.3 so i can't speak about earlier problems with it. On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Kevin Horton wrote: > I use aspell as the spell checker with bluefish. I have been making > fink packages for th

[Fink-users] ocaml: conflicting types

2003-12-02 Thread Matthew Parry
i get this message trying to install ocaml on 10.3 gcc -I../../byterun -O -fno-defer-pop -no-cpp-precomp -Wall -Wno-unused -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -g -I/sw/include -c -o scheduler.o scheduler.c scheduler.c:97: error: conflicting types for `thread_t' /usr/include/mach/mach_types.h:100: error: p

[Fink-users] texmacs and xfree86-base-threaded-shlibs issues

2004-02-03 Thread Matthew Parry
it seems that texmacs still wants xfree86-base-threaded-shlibs (at least for binary updates). i thought this wasn't meant to be the case anymore. anyway, this causes some library/user version issues in /usr/X11R6/lib and prevents X11 from working. i was able to resolve this by making libfreetype

Re: [Fink-users] texmacs and xfree86-base-threaded-shlibs issues

2004-02-04 Thread Matthew Parry
> > The texmacs package, binary or not, wants nothing of the sort. It only > ever depended on the virtual packages "x11", "x11-dev", "x11-shlibs". > > I don't quite know what distribution you are running: > xfree86-base-threaded-libs is in 10.2-gcc3.3 and older, but a binary > texmacs is only in 10

Re: [Fink-users] texmacs and xfree86-base-threaded-shlibs issues

2004-02-04 Thread Matthew Parry
thanks for the advice. i seem to be back on the straight and narrow again. i hope i am not being too hasty in saying that. On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, Peter O'Gorman wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Matthew Parry wrote: > | yep--now!--and system-xfree86

[Fink-users] builddepend warning

2004-02-15 Thread Matthew Parry
if anyone has the time/inclination, can you tell me what the following warning means and what happens if you ignore it? WARNING: The package gtk+2 Depends on atk1, but atk1 only allows things to BuildDepend on it. (this came up when i was looking into installing abiword 2.02; and the sa

[Fink-users] gnuplot not handling octave subplots

2010-03-05 Thread Matthew Parry
i've come across odd behaviour with subplots in octave. i've rebuilt both octave and gnuplot and the problem persists and is the same regardless whether i'm using aqua or x11 terms. basically, only the bottom-most and left-most plot gets labels, titles and numbering. the other plots display

Re: [Fink-users] Failed: phase compiling: mono-2.6.1-3 failed

2010-03-05 Thread Matthew Parry
i also had problems with this on intel (MBP) OSX 10.4.11: In file included from ./include/private/gc_priv.h:66, from ./include/private/pthread_support.h:4, from darwin_stop_world.c:1: ./include/private/gcconfig.h:320:1: warning: "USE_MMAP" redefined :1:1: warnin

[Fink-users] compiling: gcc44-4.4.4-1000 failed

2010-06-03 Thread Matthew Parry
i've also had gcc44 not compile but for a different reason. i'm on a MBP 10.4.11 with latest fink etc. it seems like it's trying to compile a 64-bit executable...though i'm no expert in these matters. many thanks for any insight, matt. the final bit of the output looks like libtool: link:

[Fink-users] gcc44-4.4.4-1000 fails on 10.4.11

2010-06-18 Thread Matthew Parry
i would love it if anyone had insight into this problem. i can't get gcc44 to compile on my trusty old 32-bit MBP running 10.4.11 with latest fink etc. thanks for any help. matt. the final bit of the output looks like libtool: link: -L/sw/src/fink.build/gcc44-4.4.4-1000/darwin_objdir/i386-a

Re: [Fink-users] gcc44-4.4.4-1000 fails on 10.4.11

2010-06-22 Thread Matthew Parry
and gcc45-10.4.info files into > /sw/fink/10.4/unstable/main/finkinfo/languages to replace the > current copies. You don't need the patch files as they are > unchanged. > Jack > > > On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 12:38:07PM +0100, Matthew Parry wrote: >> i wo

Re: [Fink-users] Failed: phase compiling: clamav-0.96.5-11 failed

2010-12-01 Thread Matthew Parry
i have the same error on an intel MBP also running 10.4.11 On 30 Nov 2010, at 22:46, Dominique Dhumieres wrote: > Hi Remi, > > On a G4 OSX 10.4.11, updating to clamav-0.96.5-11 failed with: > > ... > /bin/sh ../libtool --silent --tag=CC --mode=compile /sw/bin/gcc-4 > -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I..

Re: [Fink-users] Failed: phase compiling: clamav-0.96.5-11 failed

2011-01-21 Thread Matthew Parry
i forgot to say this worked for me too (10.4.11 intel MBP) thanks to you both. On 5 Dec 2010, at 13:28, Dominique Dhumieres wrote: > Configuring clamav with --disable-llvm works. > I did not find how to apply the patch in > https://wwws.clamav.net/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=1624 > > Thanks for

[Fink-users] qt4-base-x11 not installing

2011-06-06 Thread Matthew Parry
now i may have gone about this all the wrong way, but i removed qt4- x11 to replace it with qt4-base-x11 and have a problem because /sw/ lib/qt4-x11/... doesn't exist. i'm on an old intel MBP running 10.4.11 but with latest fink etc. presumably, i could reinstall qt4-x11 but this seems to requ

Re: [Fink-users] qt4-base-x11 not installing

2011-06-07 Thread Matthew Parry
: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 6/6/11 11:00 AM, Matthew Parry wrote: >> now i may have gone about this all the wrong way, but i removed qt4- >> x11 to replace it with qt4-base-x11 and have a problem because /sw/ >> lib/qt4-x11/... doesn't e

Re: [Fink-users] qt4-base-x11 not installing

2011-06-07 Thread Matthew Parry
I've tried to install qt4-x11-core-shlibs but it seems to require qt4- base-mac (as well as qt4-base-x11) and things fall over at exactly the same point. Help! On 7 Jun 2011, at 13:48, Alexander Hansen wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 6/7/11

Re: [Fink-users] qt4-base-x11 not installing

2011-06-08 Thread Matthew Parry
Thanks...but now I'm told this version cannot be found. In my ignorance, I don't know how to list earlier versions. On 7 Jun 2011, at 18:04, Alexander Hansen wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 6/7/11 11:51 AM, Matthew Parry wrote: >>

Re: [Fink-users] qt4-base-x11 not installing

2011-06-08 Thread Matthew Parry
:19, Alexander Hansen wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 6/8/11 7:38 AM, Matthew Parry wrote: >> >> Thanks...but now I'm told this version cannot be found. In my >> ignorance, I don't know how to list earlier versions. >> >

[Fink-users] General thanks

2011-08-29 Thread Matthew Parry
I've just completed an update of a large number of vital packages (qt4, gcc, etc) which took nearly a day to compile on my trusty MBA running 10.5.8. Everything worked perfectly and I just wanted to say thank you to all the package maintainers out there. I know I am not being very specific (

Re: [Fink-users] gcc46 patch for 10.4?

2012-01-26 Thread Matthew Parry
I remember I had a similar problem in gcc44 and looking back at my emails I found this: I notice that we have a couple other reports of this and they all seem to be on darwin8. My guess is that we are tickling an ld64 bug in Xcode 2.5 since there are no reports from a 32-bit Intel machine on da

Re: [Fink-users] gcc46 patch for 10.4?

2012-01-28 Thread Matthew Parry
sorry--it's the problem as diagnosed by Jack Howarth: an ld64 flag which causes grief on my 32-bit machine. i'm on 10.4.11 with xcode 2.5.1. On 27 Jan 2012, at 14:18, Alexander Hansen wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 1/26/12 7:53 P

Re: [Fink-users] gcc46 patch for 10.4?

2012-01-28 Thread Matthew Parry
lexander Hansen wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 1/28/12 5:29 AM, Peter Dyballa wrote: >> >> Am 28.1.2012 um 10:13 schrieb Matthew Parry: >> >>> sorry--it's the problem as diagnosed by Jack Howarth: an ld64 >>> flag whi

Re: [Fink-users] gcc46 patch for 10.4?

2012-02-06 Thread Matthew Parry
Thank you...commenting out the cp comand worked. And packages needing gcc46 have installed successfully too. Many many thanks, Matt. On 3 Feb 2012, at 23:45, Peter Dyballa wrote: > > Am 3.2.2012 um 06:14 schrieb mpa...@maths.otago.ac.nz: > >> Unfortunately, I'm still getting problems...thoug

Re: [Fink-users] lyx-qt-1.5.0-2 failure on 10.4 PPC

2008-01-23 Thread Matthew Parry
the fix: Rebuilding lyx-qt now after adding in qt4-x11.info the last of the following lines > FIX LA, PRL and PC FILES > > perl -pi -e 's,%b/lib,%p/lib/%N/lib,g' %i/lib/%N/lib/ > pkgconfig/*.pc %i/lib/%N/lib/*.prl %i/lib/%N/lib/*.la > perl -pi -e 's,-framework

Re: [Fink-users] lyx-qt-1.5.0-2 failure on 10.4 PPC

2008-01-24 Thread Matthew Parry
On 24 Jan 2008, at 11:48, Alexander K. Hansen wrote: > On Thursday 24 January 2008 02:31:37 Matthew Parry wrote: >> the fix: >> >> Rebuilding lyx-qt now after adding in qt4-x11.info the last of the >> following lines >> >>> FIX LA, PRL and

Re: [Fink-users] circular dependency on update-all

2008-07-18 Thread Matthew Parry
i am getting very similar problems with update-all but i am not sure what package is causing the problem. i am a bit ignorant of what goes on under the fink hood, but it seems like some package has been submitted with a whole bunch of irrelevant dependencies. i update weekly and rarely add

[Fink-users] dbus-launch problem

2008-09-09 Thread Matthew Parry
to add to the dbus issue. i have also recently updated to version 1.2.3-4 (mac osx 10.4.11, intel, latest fink) i seldom use terminal.app but when i do the following problem does *not* arise. the problem comes only when i first launch X11. then i see: Last login: Tue Sep 9 09:11:31 on consol

Re: [Fink-users] clisp compiling problem prevents maxima installation

2008-10-03 Thread Matthew Parry
probably unrelated but i am also having trouble with clisp 2.46 on an intel 10.4.11 mpb. error comes as: gcc -I/sw/include -Igllib -g -O2 -W -Wswitch -Wcomment -Wpointer-arith -Wimplicit -Wreturn-type -Wmissing-declarations -Wno-sign-compare -O2 -fexpensive-optimizations -falign-functions=4 -DU

[Fink-users] xcode 2.5 issue?

2008-10-14 Thread Matthew Parry
fink-related... i stumbled on something interesting the other day as i was trying to figure why some (non-fink) package wouldn't install. (i'm on 10.4.11 intel, latest everything.) according to the last modified time, the file /usr/local/lib was changed while i was updating to xcode 2.5. w

Re: [Fink-users] xcode 2.5 issue?

2008-10-14 Thread Matthew Parry
On 14 Oct 2008, at 16:23, Alexander Hansen wrote: > > On Oct 14, 2008, at 7:35 AM, Matthew Parry wrote: > >> fink-related... >> >> i stumbled on something interesting the other day as i was trying to >> figure why some (non-fink) package wouldn't ins

Re: [Fink-users] xcode 2.5 issue?

2008-10-14 Thread Matthew Parry
thanks all for the feedback. i wish i had emailed before i updated fink today! i remember now why usr/local exists...it's that annoying cisco vpn client my work made me install. also, and this is potentially problematic, macfuse recently put some files there. could i please get a little he

Re: [Fink-users] X11 after Security Update 2009-001

2009-02-26 Thread Matthew Parry
would you advise everyone with 10.4.11 to replace libfreetype. 6.3.dylib? i'm just curious since not everyone reported problems with the security update. i had a minor problem with x11: xterm would hang at the .login though i could run other terms and apps. after moving .login out the way, i

[Fink-users] dbus causing xterm to hang?

2009-04-23 Thread Matthew Parry
i have been having some trouble with xterm hanging recently. i'm on a MBP 10.4.11 with latest fink. it only happens after a start up. i.e. not if i logout and then login again. the first xterm hangs after showing: Last login: Thu Apr 23 13:55:32 on console Welcome to Darwin! a second xterm

Re: [Fink-users] dbus causing xterm to hang?

2009-04-23 Thread Matthew Parry
On 24 Apr 2009, at 02:55, Charles Lepple wrote: > On Apr 23, 2009, at 4:53 PM, Martin Costabel wrote: > >> Matthew Parry wrote: >>> i have been having some trouble with xterm hanging recently. i'm >>> on a >>> MBP 10.4.11 with latest fink. >>&

Re: [Fink-users] dbus causing xterm to hang?

2009-04-24 Thread Matthew Parry
could this be at all related to the security update, the one before last? i'm pretty sure apple changed something in x11 for tiger. this is when i started noticing the odd behavior of x11 at startup. On 24 Apr 2009, at 15:32, Charles Lepple wrote: > On Apr 24, 2009, at 10:05 AM, Jean-Françoi

[Fink-users] dvips -- missing header file

2009-06-23 Thread Matthew Parry
hi all, just noticed that dvips isn't working on my machine. i wonder if the latest tetex update broke it? i get this error: > dvips -o example.dvi example.ps This is dvips(k) 5.95a Copyright 2005 Radical Eye Software (www.radicaleye.com) dvips: ! Couldn't find header file tex.pro i'm ru

Re: [Fink-users] dvips -- missing header file

2009-06-23 Thread Matthew Parry
hank you very much -- that's done it. i had done texhash but not sudo texhash...that was my error. On 23 Jun 2009, at 16:17, Alexander Hansen wrote: > Matthew Parry wrote: >> hi all, >> >> just noticed that dvips isn't working on my machine. i wonder if the

Re: [Fink-users] Latest security update and rsync

2006-03-03 Thread Matthew Parry
i didn't see rysnc on the software update notes but according to macfixit.com it *was* part of the security update. i am running 10.3.9 but not sure if i should apply the update... matt. I don't know, I have no Panther with security update to test. It could also be that there was nothing to

[Fink-users] octave 2.1.72: plot and help problems

2006-11-07 Thread Matthew Parry
i'm upgrading from an old g3 imac to a mac book pro (intel, 10.4.8) and can't get octave to work. everything is obviously current and octave does number crunching fine, but i can't get plot or help to work in octave. both lead to panic: segmentation fault, etc. though at least help will print

[Fink-users] octave 2.9.13: gnuplot/aqua issues

2007-09-10 Thread Matthew Parry
it seems i am not the first person to have issues with octave 2.9.x and gnuplot 4.2 and aquaterm, but any help would be greatly appreciated. (10.4.10 intel MBP, latest fink, unstable, all updated) gnuplot works just fine. i display plots in aquaterm and can manipulate with "set", etc. howe

Re: [Fink-users] Problems with sudo, make on Leopard

2007-10-30 Thread Matthew Parry
from macfixit: Admin accounts inadvertently converted to standard after Leopard install; fix Users are reporting a strange phenomenon where their administrator user accounts are converted to standard user accounts after installation of Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard). MacFixIt reader Ed Anders

[Fink-users] octave-forge 2004.02.12-3

2004-07-13 Thread Matthew Parry
i got the following failure. i have texinfo 4.2-22 installed, running on 10.3.4 with latest fink (cvs) ... Output written on comms.dvi (78 pages, 197464 bytes). Transcript written on comms.log. texindex: ./comms.cp: not a texinfo index file texindex: No page number in /sw/bin/texi2dvi: texindex

Re: [Fink-users] octave-forge 2004.02.12-3

2004-07-13 Thread Matthew Parry
i'm sorry, i didn't mean for that to be so terse. i am humbly requesting any help... On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, Matthew Parry wrote: > > i got the following failure. i have texinfo 4.2-22 installed, running on > 10.3.4 with latest fink (cvs) > > ... > > Output written

[Fink-users] lyx and gv

2005-02-10 Thread Matthew Parry
gv has just stopped working with lyx. the only thing i can think of is that i updated to gv 3.6.1 a few days ago. i have no problems invoking gv from the terminal, it's just that ctrl-t in lyx seems to do nothing. i reinstalled lyx (1.3.5-1)--it checks for gv and returns a "yes"--but still no ch

[Fink-users] Re: lyx and gv

2005-02-10 Thread Matthew Parry
the problem is that lyx calls gv with the -swap option as default. it should be --swap. presumably this is a change with gv 3.6.1. thanks to jeff for offlist help... matt. > gv has just stopped working with lyx. the only thing i can think of is > that i updated to gv 3.6.1 a few days ago. > > i

[Fink-users] Q re selfupdate and ncurses

2005-03-02 Thread Matthew Parry
this is nothing major, just something i couldn't see mentioned anywhere. the last 3 or so times i have done a selfupdate (rsync), fink has also (re)compiled ncurses (and -dev and -shlibs) even though they are current. is this a necessary feature of the selfupdate? i'm not too concerned, it just

[Fink-users] Re: Q re selfupdate and ncurses

2005-03-02 Thread Matthew Parry
correction: ncurses, libncurses5 and libncurses5-shlibs are recompiled. On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Matthew Parry wrote: > > this is nothing major, just something i couldn't see mentioned anywhere. > > the last 3 or so times i have done a selfupdate (rsync), fink has also > (re)c

Re: [Fink-users] xfig / xfig323

2005-03-14 Thread Matthew Parry
this has recently been discussed on this list. i believe the current reply is the following. and you may have to reinstall gv. matt. Re: [Fink-users] problem with xfig 3.2.4-2 David R. Morrison Fri, 11 Feb 2005 11:36:15 -0800 Dan, We tracked the problem down: there is a new version of the

Re: [Fink-users] Mozilla crashes on startup

2005-06-10 Thread Matthew Parry
have you checked that all the dependencies are up to date? i had a different problem with the mozilla binary which was fixed when i updated some library (whose name i've obviously forgotten). i guess when the binary is compiled, the maintainer is assuming the latest versions of the dependencies..