Re: Issues with Xfig on MacOS Catalina (10.15)

Hanspeter Niederstrasser <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners
Organization Snaggled Works
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 3/6/20 6:00 PM, Albert Romkes via Fink-beginners wrote:
> I recently installed Catalina on my Mac laptop and tried installing Xfig using fink, but the installation fails.. any help would be appreciated.
> 
> Error message:
> 
> 
> Failed: phase compiling: term-readkey-pm5184-2.37-1 failed
> 
> 
> Additional info:
> 
> Package manager version: 0.45.0
> Distribution version: selfupdate-rsync Fri Mar  6 13:56:43 2020, 10.15, x86_64
> Trees: local/main stable/main
> Xcode.app: 11.3.1
> Xcode command-line tools: 11.4.0.0.1.1582949255
> Max. Fink build jobs:  8

This is a known bug with using system-perl on 10.15 for some perlmods.

https://github.com/fink/fink-distributions/issues/461

Unfortunately, the people that know how to fix the underlying cause (in
extutils-makemaker) haven't had time to do so.

Hanspeter



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