problems with fink and latest Xcode on Mac OS X

http://fink.9193.n7.nabble.com/Can-t-bootstrap-on-10-8-4-td43215.html

search for gcc_selected on that page!

the Fink project

• Fink - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• fink.sf.net – I assume the best available link for downloading …
• www.dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Operating_Systems/Mac_OS/Software/Open_Source/

packages I use:

• coreutils
• wget
• xv
• xpdf

upgrading to Mac OS X Mountain Lion

• starting with Mountain Lion X11 for Mac OS X is available on a separate website: xquartz.macosforge.org, support.apple.com/kb/HT5293
• RCS binaries get provided in /Developer/usr/bin, but e.g. "rcsdiff" makes use of a hard-wired "co" by the full path of /usr/bin/co; my fix for this: I symlinked ../Developer/usr/bin/co to /usr/bin/co.
• you need XCode of course
• as a Fink user, you need to (re-)install Fink from fink.sf.net (coreutils, wget, xv, xpdf)

ImageMagick for Mac OS X Lion: Install from Source / Unix

ImageMagick: Install from Source

I had to choose this way, as the binary release left me with an "identify" utility, that didn't even properly recognize a JPEG file.


And fink currently doesn't support ImageMagick for Lion.

My little differences:

• export MAGICK_HOME="/usr/local/ImageMagick"
• ./configure --prefix=$MAGICK_HOME
• the ldconfig command is not available on OS X resp. Lion, and apparently it's also not necessary to run that step (on OS X resp. Lion)

And I am also putting ${MAGICK_HOME}/… in front of all the PATH… variables, i.e. before fink's GraphicsMagick's replacement wrappers for ImageMagick, that aren't really able to replace ImageMagick functionality for me.

Actually "1 out of 48" tests failed with "make check", but otherwise this software rather runs:


FAIL: Magick++/tests/attributes.sh (exit: 139)
==============================================


./Magick++/tests/attributes.sh: line 20: 42477 Segmentation fault: 11  ${MEMCHECK} "./${executable}" 2>&1 > $outfile

Fink - Package imagemagick – Mac OS X 10.7 aka Lion not yet supported

Fink - Package Database - Package imagemagick (Image manipulation tools): "imagemagick-6.5.8.10-1"

ImageMagick, OS X, Xcode, fink, dependency hell

After setting up Xcode on Lion properly yesterday and re-installing fink, I am now going through a dependency hell. I hope, everything will recompile smoothly – but you just never know.
As cautious as I usually am, I renamed fink's /sw just to /sw-, so that I can work around, in case things don't work out as smoothly, as they shall.

Whenever I see these thousands of dependencies … – OMG, my stomach! Once in a while these things break, and after like 20 years of sometimes breaking dependencies, you just don't really love it any more. That's why I prefer openSUSE over Ubuntu, ie. re-compiling installations.

The story ends like this for the time being: Any version of ImageMagick, that the fink team supports – they don't support for Lion.

fink on Lion

When I set up fink on Snow Leopard quite a while ago, I didn't really care, where XCode and all that went.
Now with Lion things are not running as smooth.
I have to put /Developer/usr/bin on PATH.
But that still doesn't allow to successfully run ./bootstrap . How bad! I think I am going to abandon fink for the time being in favour of DarwinPort.

fink, XCode, connect.apple.com, …

A while after upgrading to Lion, there is a need for me, to make use of fink again. Well, when I upgraded from Snow Leopard to Lion, XCode did not get upgraded as well. Now that I tried do update fink again, it complained about what ever, but at least it pointed me to XCode and connect.apple.com . So, I hope, that will be a piece of cake. I need Mercurial from fink, and using that I will install GoLang. That's the intention at least.

Update 2011-09-20
The version of XCode within the Apple app store seems the same as the one in connect.apple.com, at least the app store refuses to download XCode, as I already have the up-to-date version of XCode on my disk.

MacPort/DarwinPort and Fink coexisting on my Mac

Both coexist on my Mac, and sometimes installations complain about binaries resp. libraries in an incompatible format.
MacPort/DarwinPort lives in /opt/local, Fink lives in /sw.
In order for fine installations I sometimes have to temporarily rename /opt/local resp. /sw.
After the successful installations I rename them back.

I learned this lesson during the installation of ImageMagick on my Mac.

Fink FAQ: installing a few "unstable" packages from "fink"

Fink FAQ: installing a few "unstable" packages from "fink"

I don't exactly remember, when I configured fink to also install "unstable" packages, but now I think, that created a terrible mess on my computer. I ran "fink configure" today, and disabled the installation of "unstable" packages there. I hope, fink will work much smoother from now on. No more md5sum mismatches …

the pidgin Facebook plugin

The pidgin Facebook plugin does not work properly so far. A single Facebook user actually talks to me with yet another id, every single time he sends me a message. This does not look tested well enough.
I am using pidgin 2.6.2 (libpurple 2.6.2) from fink on Mac OS X, Snow Leopard.

Update / 2010-12-28:
For quite a while Facebook chat has now been reachable through Jabber / XMPP.

the main Fink web site is down, there is an alternative though (UPDATE)

You can't reach the main Fink web site right now, but there is an alternative though.

2009-10-28: You can fink again. The main Fink web site is still not available though.

a completer UNIX on Mac OS X

I find Mac OS X for Unix Geeks very, very helpful. I own the the Tiger paper version, and also the Leopard PDF.
(If you hold an O'Reilly account, and if you register your Leopard paper version of this book by simply entering the right ISBN und My Account, then this month the PDF upgrade costs you only $4.99. Pragmatic Progammers also ask you a question like "what's the 1st word on page 203", which  you can obviously also answer correctly, if you sit in the coffee corner of your book store with your computer on your lap. But you are an honest book owner, aren't you?)

Download fink from sourceforge! This opens a wide realm of extra UNIX utility to you. A very nice installer and repository!!

Tell fink to install emacs22-carbon for you! Yes, there is also a carbon native version of emacs. There is also an an emacs23-app (this is a carbon version!!) in the unstable area of the repository, but you don't want to start your UNIX life on OS X with unstable utilities, as I do, do you?!?

MacPorts is another nice installer and repository, that you may want to get hold on.