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!

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)

downloading Apple's Xcode from the "Mac App Store"

Xcode Downloads and Resources - Apple Developer

• You decide, you need XCode,
• you are going to the Mac App Store,
• you are pressing the Install button,
• going to download 1.65 GB,
• and the only feedback you are getting for quite a while is the button saying "Installing".

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.

Mac OS X: How to Uninstall Xcode?

Mac Developer Tips » How to Uninstall Xcode

I hate, that I have to restart this computer.

Even after this the app store still thinks XCode is installed and up-to-date.
What a mess!

I had to remove "/Applications//Install Xcode.app", only after this, I could re-install Xcode.

Mounting xcode_4.1_for_lion.dmg and executing the pkg file in there did not yet re-install Xcode, only executing "/Applications/Install Xcode.app" did.
Maybe executing the later would have re-installed it properly in the first place …

installing GoLang on Lion

I had to get Mercurial from here, that was successful then for this step:

$ hg clone -u release https://go.googlecode.com/hg/ go
$ sudo /usr/sbin/chown -R johayek go

./all.bash expects "sysctl" on PATH, so:

$ export PATH=$PATH:/usr/sbin

I ended up with applying sudo on ./all.bash, but still

$ sudo ./all.bash


I experienced problems before we a messed Xcode set-up, but after cleaning that up, everything was fine here.

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.