Results of 2014 Fink buildworld run on 10.9

Dear Fink developers and users,

I've just published the results of a buildworld run on a 10.9 system. 
The buildworld tries to build every package in the Fink tree from 
scratch on a clean environment and so will find packaging problems that 
may be hidden on a production system.

The general report broken down by results category is here:
http://www.snaggledworks.com/fink/buildworld/2014-07-24/out/report.html

The listing by maintainer is here:
http://www.snaggledworks.com/fink/buildworld/2014-07-24/out/maintindex.html

The algorithm to categorize failures is very basic and does have some 
false positives. In short, it searches every package build log for a 
match to the list of known errors.  If one of the error tokens is found 
in the buildlog, that package will be reported as a failure, even if the 
package actually built successfully as expected.

The buildworld also has a simple search function for the contents of 
every generated .deb file if you need to find what package provides a 
specific file (useful for tracking down dependencies).

I have also saved the build directories for failed packages.  If the 
build log does not have enough information to analyze a failure, I can 
provide the contents (such as config.log) of the specific build upon 
request.

Note: a buildworld is not a continuous process (unlike a bindist). It is 
a (mostly) static picture of Fink's package database when it started. If 
a package was updated in CVS after July 24, 2014, there is a very good 
chance that it did _not_ get updated in the local buildworld machine. If

Follow up with questions and comments to the fink-devel list.

Hanspeter

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