Re: TheCaptain branch looking for patch files in the wrong place

Alexander Hansen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.apple.fink.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> On Aug 7, 2015, at 13:21, David Reiser <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I’m trying to build the experimental glib2-shlibs. The info file is in:
> 
> /sw/fink/10.7/local/main/finkinfo/glib2-shlibs.info
> 
> The patch files are in the same directory, but trying to build glib2-shlibs ends with an error:
> 
> Failed: Cannot read PatchFile "/sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo/glib2-shlibs.patch”
> 
> Is this a bug, or did I do something odd? Fink is finding the local info file in the usual-for-prior-MacOS-versions, but it is not looking for the patch file in the same directory in which it found the info file.
> 

Does your /sw/fink/dists actually point to 10.7 ?  Does "/sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo/glib2-shlibs.patch” resolve?  What are the ownership and permissions on it, if so? 

> Despite running fink configure, I’m also usually getting messages that:
> 
> Couldn't change value of PrimaryGroupID in DirectoryServices entry /Groups/fink-bld.
> 
> During the fink configure run, it thought that it succeeded making fink-bld user 601
> 
> Dave
> --
> Dave Reiser
> [email protected]
> 

What do you get from “id fink-bld” ?  If you updated from a prior OS X rather than doing a clean install, there has historically been an issue in which Apple clobbers pre-existing users but not groups.

-- 
Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
Fink User Liaison


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