Re: cernlib issue with Catalina OS

Alexander Hansen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners
Message-ID <[email protected]>

> 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



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