Re: Yosemite (Alexander Hansen) - (some) success building Fink under 10.10 Yosemite

On 8/8/14, 9:50 AM, John Lillibridge - NOAA Federal wrote:
> Dear Alexander & Fink developers,
>
> I wanted to share my experience based on your advice below, to build Fink under Yosemite 10.10 (public beta) from https://github.com/fink/fink/tree/HalfDome".
>
> After installing the XCode 6.0 command line tools, XQuartz, and Java on my 10.10 test system, I downloaded the HalfDome branch of Fink, and simply ran "./bootstrap". To my pleasant surprise it completed without error, and I have a Yosemite fink distribution based on 0.37.99.git.
>
> I then tried to change the selfupdate method to CVS, which required 'fink install cvs'. This failed with a 'pod2man' error that I had seen earlier when trying to get Fink to build under 10.10:
>
> cms.pod around line 457: Expected text after =item, not a number
> cms.pod around line 461: Expected text after =item, not a number
> cms.pod around line 465: Expected text after =item, not a number
> cms.pod around line 470: Expected text after =item, not a number
> cms.pod around line 474: Expected text after =item, not a number
> POD document had syntax errors at /usr/bin/pod2man5.18 line 72.
> make: *** [install_docs] Error 255
>
> I wanted to report this problem since it stands in the way of adding additional packages to 10.10 when the creation of a man page fails...
>
> Thanks for pointing me to the HalfDome branch, as my attempts to build by tweaking the master branch had only been partially successful. I HAD seend this pod2man error during that process, but it was avoided in the bootstrap build in the HalfDome branch.
>
> All the best,
> John Lillibridge
>

I'm not showing anything about cms.pod in the cvs build.  What package 
actually failed?  We'll want to apply the fix in the right place.

-- 
Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
Fink User Liaison
My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com/

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