Re: cernlib issue with Catalina OS
Alexander Hansen <[email protected]>
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> On May 14, 2020, at 07:56, James Kolata <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks! I found that file, but there were quite a few commented-out lines, including these three near the top: #!/bin/sh -ev > > Should I edit out all occurrences or only the first? What about the other commented-out lines throughout the > file? Should I leave them alone? > > > >> On May 13, 2020, at 8:52 PM, Hanspeter Niederstrasser <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On 5/13/20 6:40 PM, James Kolata wrote: >>> I did a selfupdate using rsync on 10.15.4 and looked for cernlib2006. I did not find it. I found geant4.9 when I looked for cernlib. >> >> The package description file is located at /opt/sw/fink/dists/stable/main/finkinfo/sci/cernlib2006.info >> >> Edit the Distribution: line near the top to have a leading # (hash) symbol to comment the field out. Then you'll be able to see cernlib2006 as available on 10.15. It built for me, but there might be runtime problems that I don't know about. >> >> Hanspeter > > Nope, don’t edit any of the currently commented lines. The three you noted aren’t technically comments, but are shell directives to have a particular interpreter—/bin/sh here—execute commands based on the text in a file. As Hanspeter said, just add a # in front of Distribution: -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] List archive: https://sourceforge.net/p/fink/mailman/fink-users/ Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners