Re: M109 on MacOSX 10.4

Tino Rachui - Sun Germany - Development - Software Engineer wrote:

> James,
>
> James McKenzie wrote:
>
>>> Today, I removed pkgsrc and swich back to fink again.
>>>
>>> Build dependencies for me is:
>>> fink install gtk+2
>>>  
>>>
>> Looks like I am getting a corrupt file when I try this:
>>
>> docbkx412.zip.
>>
>> I tried downloading it from the Oasis web/ftp site and it is corrupt 
>> there.  Sent the webmaster a message advising of this.  Did you need 
>> DocBook support to complete the installation of the gtk+2 package?
>>
>> BTW, it looks like I will have more free time this week than I 
>> originally planned on, but I will be very busy and only have time to 
>> troubleshoot a few problems.
>>
>> Also, I would like to ask other folks on the list what they are using 
>> to get gtk+2 support running?
>
>
> your problems sound a little bit familiar to me. When I started 
> building OOo on my Mac a few weeks ago I stepped into the same 
> problems with fink and gtk+.
>
> 1. During installation of gtk+2 a got a corrupt file message too though
> I do not remember if it was the same file (docbkx412.zip). Ignoring this
> file had no further negative impact.
>
> 2. Though I installed gtk+2 and other available gtk+? packages I was not
> able to build mozilla until I realized that what fink did install were 
> only the gtk+? sources. I still had to do a 'make' and 'make install' 
> in order to really install these packages on my Mac. Before doing this 
> pkgconfig did not show any of the gtk+? packages in the list of 
> available packages.
>
> I'm not sure if I did something wrong but this was the way for me to get
> gtk+? installed properly and be able to build mozilla.
>
> Does pkgconfig show you gtk+? in the list of available packages?
>
I've decided to submit a bug report to Fink.  It appears that this is 
broken in Tiger.  At this time I am dropping the use of OpenOffice in 
favor of Office for Mac.  I have licenses for it and I definately need a 
working system.  Sorry folks, but Microsoft won this battle.

James McKenzie