Re: Fink on Big Sur: Can't resolve dependency "texinfo (>= 4.13-1)" ...

On 8/23/21 4:35 AM, Thomas Bayes wrote:
> macOS Big Sur, Version 11.5.1
> Xcode and Command-Line Tools 12.5.1
> 
> 1. I followed the instructions at
> https://sourceforge.net/p/fink/mailman/message/37159913/ to do a clean
> install (using ./bootstrap)
> 2. All went well, and I got the message "You should now have a working
> Fink installation ..."
> 3. After 'fink selfupdate' and 'fink update-all' (and then installing
> texinfo-legacy), I tried 'fink install lynx', but I get the error
> message
> 
> Information about 11404 packages read in 2 seconds.
> Can't resolve dependency "texinfo (>= 4.13-1)" for package
> "autoconf2.6-2.69-6" (no matching packages/versions found)
> Exiting with failure.

Texinfo requires a specific revision for every different macOS release, 
which is why it was missing on 11.5. I've created a pull request to bump 
to the latest texinfo and make it available on 11.3-11.5.

https://github.com/fink/fink-distributions/pull/849

Hanspeter

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