Re: Fink 0.38.99.git (TheCaptain) & 10.11 Beta-1

On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 8:26 AM, John Lillibridge - NOAA Federal <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Greetings Fink Developers,
>
> I wanted to share some of my experiences building Fink under El Capitan
> 10.11 Public Beta-1. Unlike all the difficulties moving from 10.9 to 10.10
> (due to the minor version becoming 2-digit) the bootstrap process was
> painless. Most of the packages that I’ve built thus far have gone without a
> hitch. Here is a list of a few specific issues I’ve run into:
>
> 0) as mentioned earlier, I got help2man-perl to build by modifying
> finkinfo/devel/help2man-perl.info to include "(%type_pkg[custom] = 5182)
> 10.11”.
>
> 1) gcc5 built successfully using the XCode app (vs. CLI tools) with
> /sw/etc/fink.conf "MaxBuildJobs: 1”.
>
> 2) gcc49 did NOT build successfully; it was initially missing the .info &
> .patch files.
>

This is expected behavior. Support for the older FSF gcc releases are
deprecated on new OS releases as a nudge to force packages to migrate to
the current FSF gcc release.


>
> 3) po4a required a finkinfo/devel/pora-10.11.info file, with
> "Distribution: 10.11” inside (simply copied po4a-10.10.info & modified)
>
> 4) I forced cfitsio to build with gcc5 (since I couldn’t get gcc49 to
> build) by modifying finkinfo/libs/cfitstio.info to have "BuildDepends:
> gcc5”
>
> 5) gmt5 built successfully when I chose unixodbc2-nox, because:
>
> 6) qt3 did NOT build successfully
>
> 7) with those workarounds, I have succeeded to build my nominal set of
> tools:
>    cdo, curl, fftw3, gcc5, gv, gifsicle, gmt5, grib-api, lftp, nco,
> ncview, wget
>
> All the best,
> John
>
>
>
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