Re: Fink and Catalina

Hanspeter,

A belated response is still better than none at all.

Your news re the lack of binary distribution was what I expected to hear.

As for my other issue, I was able to resolve it after some experimentation and research. I’m not positive what
the solution was, but I think it was tied to the need to hide some of the libraries within /usr/local.
Once I got texi2html-pm5162 to compile, I was also able to build the various modules that depended on it.

But I have since upgraded to Big Sur, and am having new and different issues. To keep the discussion chain
clear, without a misleading subject, I’ll send a separate email momentarily on that topic.

Regards,
Dave

> On Apr 12, 2022, at 7:15 AM, Hanspeter Niederstrasser <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On 3/10/22 5:06 PM, David Axler wrote:
>> I recently made the move from Mojave to the most recent iteration of Catalina. Thanks to this list, I was prepared
>> for many of the resulting changes, such as the move of fink to /opt/sw.
>> Overall, things have gone well, but there are two problems that I’d like to throw out for comment, and
>> one tip I want to pass on.
> 
> Sorry for the slow response, this message moved out of my inbox for some reason.
> 
>> 1) Problem: Fink can no longer find binaries.
>> Regardless of whether I stick to only stable packages or include unstable packages, fink is failing when I
>> attempt to self-update with binary packages after doing this in fink configure:
>> Should Fink try to download pre-compiled packages from the binary distribution
>> if available? [y/N] y
> 
> Catalina (macOS 10.15) does not have a binary distribution, so this is expected.
> What version of fink (fink --version) are you running?
> 
> A typical self update results in the following:
>> davidaxl@Daves-Mac-Pro ~ % fink selfupdate
>> /opt/sw/bin/rsync -az -q  rsync://distfiles.master.finkmirrors.net/finkinfo//TIMESTAMP <rsync://distfiles.master.finkmirrors.net/finkinfo//TIMESTAMP> /opt/sw/fink/TIMESTAMP.tmp
>> I will now run the rsync command to retrieve the latest package descriptions.
>> /opt/sw/bin/rsync -rtz --delete-after --delete -q   --include='10.9-libcxx/' --include='10.9-libcxx/stable/' --include='10.9-libcxx/stable/main/' --include='10.9-libcxx/stable/main/finkinfo/' --include='10.9-libcxx/stable/main/finkinfo/*/' --include='10.9-libcxx/stable/main/finkinfo/*' --include='10.9-libcxx/stable/main/finkinfo/**/*' --include='10.9-libcxx/' --include='10.9-libcxx/unstable/' --include='10.9-libcxx/unstable/main/' --include='10.9-libcxx/unstable/main/finkinfo/' --include='10.9-libcxx/unstable/main/finkinfo/*/' --include='10.9-libcxx/unstable/main/finkinfo/*' --include='10.9-libcxx/unstable/main/finkinfo/**/*' --include='VERSION' --include='DISTRIBUTION' --include='README' --exclude='**' 'rsync://distfiles.master.finkmirrors.net/finkinfo' '/opt/sw/fink/ <rsync://distfiles.master.finkmirrors.net/finkinfo'%20'/opt/sw/fink/>'
>> Downloading the indexes of available packages in the binary distribution.
>> /opt/sw/bin/apt-get-lockwait -q update
>> Err file: unstable/main Packages
>>   File not found
>> Ign file: unstable/main Release
>> Err http://bindist.finkmirrors.net <http://bindist.finkmirrors.net/> stable/main Packages
>>   404 Not Found
>> Hit http://bindist.finkmirrors.net <http://bindist.finkmirrors.net/> stable/main Release
>> Failed to fetch file:/opt/sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-x86_64/Packages  File not found
>> Failed to fetch http://bindist.finkmirrors.net/10.15/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-x86_64/Packages <http://bindist.finkmirrors.net/10.15/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-x86_64/Packages>  404 Not Found
>> Reading Package Lists...
> 
>> 2) Perl version issue
>> The Catalina install resulted in my the replacement of Perl 5.16.2 with Perl 5.18.4 in /usr/bin/perl.
>> For many packages, this is not an issue. Most Perl-dependent packages have both a “-pm5162/perl5162” and a “-pm5184/perl5184” option.
>> However, there is a whole chain of packages that depend on being able to compile texi2html-perl5162, which is
>> no longer possible. In particular, this eliminates both autoconf and automake, which are themselves used in the build
>> of many larger packages.
> 
> texi2html-perl5162 is a private version of perl5162 used exclusively for texi2html (because it won't work with newer perls) and is available for macOS10.14 and up. What is the actual error you are getting when building texi2html-perl5162?
> 
> Hanspeter
> -- 
> "...everything that living things do can be understood in terms of the
> jigglings and wigglings of atoms."
>  --Richard Feynman
> 



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