[Fink-users] Re: Clisp on Fink

2004-01-31 Thread William McCallum
I'll try to look into the question of whether maxima can be made to work with 2.31 (or already has), but I won't have time to do so before the weekend of Feb 7. Regards, Bill McCallum On Jan 29, 2004, at 12:38 AM, Matthias Neeracher wrote: On Jan 28, 2004, at 6:44 AM, [EMAIL PRO

Re: [Fink-users] Emacs (on Aqua) status and prognosis?

2003-12-02 Thread William McCallum
On Dec 1, 2003, at 9:22 PM, Michal Young wrote: Is there a binary out there somewhere I should download rather than trying to build? I just built an Emacs installer package that seems to work (I tried it on myself). In about 20 minutes you'll be able to get it at http://www.math.arizona.edu/~wm

[Fink-users] Emacs (on Aqua) status and prognosis?

2003-12-02 Thread William McCallum
On Dec 1, 2003, at 9:22 PM, Michal Young wrote: I've been happily using Emacs 21.3.50.1 running as an Aqua app in its own window under Jaguar. Since Panther I've been unable to get a clean compile ... apparently there are problems in building the .elc files during "make bootstrap".I've be

[Fink-users] Re: maxima and schelter plot

2003-10-16 Thread William McCallum
On Thursday, October 16, 2003, at 09:49 AM, Matthew Parry wrote: 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 und

Re: [Fink-users] maxima compilation error

2003-06-21 Thread William McCallum
Hi, I'm the maintainer for maxima. This looks like the error you get when you try to install maxima using Fink Commander. You have to install maxima from the command line: fink install maxima I posted a bug report about this to Fink Commander a while ago. I have no idea what causes it. I also

Re: [Fink-users] Alt as META (again)

2002-10-30 Thread William McCallum
I think (setq mac-command-key-is-meta nil) works in carbon emacs. There is a binary for the latest version of Andrew Choi's carbon emacs at http://www.webweavertech.com/ovidiu/emacs.html --- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Influence the

[Fink-users] emacs21 problems solved by rebuilding xfree86 and xaw3d

2002-10-13 Thread William McCallum
I had a problem building emacs 21 which seems different from the ones reported here recently. It complained that various dynamically linked libraries were out of date. Anyway, for what it's worth, the problem went away when I rebuilt xfree86-base and xaw3d. Regards, Bill ---

Re: [Fink-users] Xmaxima problem

2002-10-06 Thread William McCallum
The prerelease version of xmaxima is quite buggy under many window managers; have you tried following the advice in the package description? (do "fink describe maxima" on the command line). Are you having any trouble with the command line version of maxima? That ought to be working. Meanwhile

Re: [Fink-users] keyboard problem in kde

2002-09-25 Thread William McCallum
t the instructions only say "update" not "rebuild". Regards, Bill McCallum On Tuesday, September 24, 2002, at 10:17 PM, William McCallum wrote: > Thanks, this solves the konsole error ... but apparently that is > unrelated to the keyboard error, which is sti

Re: [Fink-users] keyboard problem in kde

2002-09-24 Thread William McCallum
Thanks, this solves the konsole error ... but apparently that is unrelated to the keyboard error, which is still not fixed. Thanks anyway, Bill On Tuesday, September 24, 2002, at 10:08 PM, Pedro Massobrio wrote: > Maybe, this can help: > > Welcome to Darwin! > TERM_PROGRAM: Undefined variabl

Re: [Fink-users] keyboard problem in kde

2002-09-24 Thread William McCallum
On Tuesday, September 24, 2002, at 08:26 PM, Benjamin Reed wrote: >> Yes, I built from source. The only other hint I can think of is that >> when I start up the konsole, I get an error "TERM_PROGRAM: Undefined >> variable." > > Hrm, havent' seen that one before. what does "printenv TERM_PROG

Re: [Fink-users] keyboard problem in kde

2002-09-24 Thread William McCallum
On Tuesday, September 24, 2002, at 07:35 PM, Benjamin Reed wrote: > I've never seen something like this that was specifically KDE-related. > Do you use XDarwin for anything else? Did you maybe remap the mouse > button emulation or something? I just tried disabling the mouse button emulatio

[Fink-users] keyboard problem in kde

2002-09-24 Thread William McCallum
I recently reinstalled kde to run under 10.2. Now when I fire up kde in full screen mode it thinks that my shift key is a control key (and does not appear to think any of my keys is a shift key). This is not a problem for me because my only use of kde is to use kdvi in rootless mode running XD

[Fink-users] Jaguar upgrade wants tetex-base

2002-09-09 Thread William McCallum
After following the steps for the Jaguar upgrade, I executed fink update-all with the following result The following 40 packages will be installed or updated: aalib aalib-bin aalib-shlibs abiword arts arts-dev auctex blackbox-rootless clisp db3 db3-shlibs emacs21 f2c fort77 gimp gimp-shlibs

Re: [Fink-users] gnuplot on MacOSX 10.2

2002-09-05 Thread William McCallum
I just tried it and it worked (plotting worked, using aquaterm). This is the version of gnuplot I installed from fink a long time ago, running on a recently upgraded 10.2. It seems that gnuplot works and does not need to be reinstalled for 10.2. On Thursday, September 5, 2002, at 08:38 PM, Pe

Re: [Fink-users] fink (10.2) system-teTeX/xdvi kluge

2002-09-05 Thread William McCallum
Hmmm, that's funny, I've been using Weirda's distribution with fink's system-tetex and fink's xdvi successfully for ages, and this is the first time I heard of your kluge. Furthermore, I just did an update-all last night, which installed a new xdvi, and that still works. There is a change you

Re: [Fink-users] a binary carbon emacs

2002-08-29 Thread William McCallum
On Thursday, August 29, 2002, at 03:10 PM, Ben Hines wrote: > > Why not email the maintainer and ask him to update the package to 4.2? > I bet he would do it within a day. > > Actually, I sent an email to the texinfo and carbon-emacs maintainers about this a couple of months ago, but I think t

[Fink-users] feedback requested on maxima, ntl and w3-emacs

2002-08-03 Thread William McCallum
If anybody has been using these packages, please let me know whether they have been working for you, and what has been going wrong if they haven't. Thanks, Bill McCallum --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to

Re: [Fink-users] Maxima install failed

2002-06-23 Thread William McCallum
On Sunday, June 23, 2002, at 03:28 PM, Martin Costabel wrote: > William McCallum wrote: > >> Try installing from the command line, not from Fink Commander > > This seems to have something to do with output buffering: > > I usually create a log file using tee: > >

Re: [Fink-users] Maxima install failed

2002-06-23 Thread William McCallum
On Sunday, June 23, 2002, at 01:50 PM, Marcus Kriele wrote: > Yesterday I discovered that Maxima has been ported. I was overjoyed > but when I attempted to install Maxima (version 5.9pre-1) from > current-unstable, I run into an error message which I can't interpret > (see below). > > I have

Re: [Fink-users] Hello/Librep again

2002-06-05 Thread William McCallum
I had the exact same problem. I sidestepped it by installing the binary, which worked for me. On Wednesday, June 5, 2002, at 01:40 AM, scmarcos wrote: > I followed the advice from the previous posts including Martin > Costabel's advice to move or rename /usr/local. > Still I get: > /sw/src/libr

[Fink-users] KDE applications in Oroborosx

2002-06-02 Thread William McCallum
Some people have commented on the slowness of KDE. If you want just one or two kde applications and not the whole environment you can invoke them from the command line under Oroborosx. This avoids the problem of slow window redrawing. The startup is still slow, especially the first time you op

Re: [Fink-users] KDE will not startup

2002-06-02 Thread William McCallum
Dear Douglas, If you have libxpg4 installed, that may be the cause of your KDE startup problem. I had the same problem as you, and it was caused by libxpg4 setting a certain environment variable (DYLD_FORCE_FLAT_NAMESPACE, if you really want to know). I don't really need libxpg4, and removing

Re: [Fink-users] KDE will not startup

2002-06-01 Thread William McCallum
On Saturday, June 1, 2002, at 08:08 AM, Benjamin Reed wrote: > Douglas Wing [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: >> When I launch Xdarwin (with startkde in my .xinitrc) I receive the >> following >> error message" >> >> There was an error setting up inter-process communications for KDE. >> The >> messa

Re: [Fink-users] KDE will not startup

2002-06-01 Thread William McCallum
I have had the same problem. I tried starting dcopserver from the command line before launching kde. This gets dcopserver running and creates the appropriate .DCOPserver_whatever__0 file, but the same error message appears. Meanwhile kde produces an error log complaining about dlcompat, which

Re: [Fink-users] Problem with KDE

2002-05-31 Thread William McCallum
I installed the kde binaries following instructions on the web page. I use unstable and have recently updated all (a couple of days ago). My current version of xfree86-base is 4.2.0-5 as required. When I start up kde I get the following error log. I tried downgrading to an earlier version of d

[Fink-users] librep-0.14-6 fails when installing sawfish

2002-05-29 Thread William McCallum
I tried to install sawfish. It wanted libreps, which produced the following failure. I am using unstable, and just selfupdated before doing this. /sw/src/librep-0.14-6/librep-0.14/src/.libs/md5.la -> ./.libexec/rep/util/md5.la mkdir ./.libexec/rep/util /sw/src/librep-0.14-6/librep-0.14/src/.li

Re: [Fink-users] feedback needed

2002-05-16 Thread William McCallum
On Thursday, May 16, 2002, at 11:17 AM, David R. Morrison wrote: > graphics/gimp-1.2.3-8 I've used it to color correct photos and it works for me. > libs/readline-4.2a-5 I have it installed, and I guess it's what's doing command completion for me? Anyway, not problems. > x11/qt2-2.3.2-

Re: [Fink-users] Problem with install mozilla 0.9.9.1

2002-05-06 Thread William McCallum
This is an old thread left dangling in the archives. I'm posting this message so that others searching the fink-user archives will be able to confirm that, yes, the problem described in earlier messages in this thread does indeed go away when you install the December 2001 Developer Tools (or l

Re: [Fink-users] problem with bash when installing xpdf

2002-03-25 Thread William McCallum
I tried to install xpdf. FInk installed bash as well, but bash chokes because there are mulitple definitions of _BC, one in libreadline and one in libncurses. fink install xpdf sudo /sw/bin/fink install xpdf Reading package info... Information about 815 packages read in 9 seconds. rm -rf xpdf

[Fink-users] Problem with gv

2002-03-21 Thread William McCallum
I installed the latest version of xfree86-base and xfree86-rootless (4.2.0-4) and now gv doesn't work. I get the error message: % gv dyld: gv can't open library: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXaw3d.7.dylib (No such file or directory, errno = 2) I checked for a more recent version of gv in unstable, but t

Re: [Fink-users] Pymol

2002-02-28 Thread William McCallum
On Thursday, February 28, 2002, at 07:16 AM, Ausaf Bari wrote: > When is Pymol going to be available on Fink? Currently it is available > through the one-step Gnu-Darwin installer. I don't know if I should go > ahead and use this installer. Wouldn't it conflict with the Fink > installation? > >

Re: [Fink-users] TIP: going from source to binary

2002-02-27 Thread William McCallum
This answers another Question I've been Frequently Asking myself. When I use dselect, packages that were installed from source using fink often show up in a section called Obsolete/Local. Running fink scanpackage has persuaded dselect that they are neither obsolete nor local. This was a comple