Re: TexInfo requires perl 5282 on Big Sur
Hanspeter Niederstrasser <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.apple.fink.general |
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| Organization | Snaggled Works |
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On 9/27/21 11:30 AM, Scott Hannahs via Fink-users wrote: > > >> On Sep 27, 2021, at 08:02, Hanspeter Niederstrasser <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On 9/24/21 4:28 PM, Scott Hannahs via Fink-users wrote: >>>> Well the rest of the builds seem to be happy with using 5302. I will do a re-install, but it may be a problem of my moving from 11.5.2 to 11.6 which is breaking fink? >> >> Maybe. If your Fink install still thinks it wants to use 5.28.2 as system-perl and `fink reinstall fink` is still not switching to 5.30.2, a brute force approach might be to edit the file /opt/sw/etc/fink.conf and change the Distribution field to "11.3" (assuming it's currentl reading "11.0"). But I don't know how this will react to the other issues with 11.6. >> >> Hanspeter > > That edit of fink.conf seems to work. However I also need to make a symbolic link from /opt/sw/fink/10.9-libcxx to "11.3” and one has to keep the link to 11.0?? Deleting that 11.0 symbolic link makes all sorts of things not function. > > fink reinstall fink does not update the fink.conf file for the distribution. Not sure how to update a fink installation smoothly from 11.2 to 11.3 (or greater). What stage of the installation sets the Distribution in fink.conf? With Justin's help, I've been able to track some things down. The Distribution field in fink.conf is set by running /opt/sw/lib/fink/postinstall.pl This is normally run in PostInstScript when reinstalling the fink package. So `fink reinstall fink` should trigger it but sometimes it's apparently not happening. Try these: sudo /opt/sw/lib/fink/postinstall.pl x86_64 or sudo /usr/bin/perl /opt/sw/lib/fink/postinstall.pl x86_64 If successful, it should show bits about changing the Distribution field and a symlink. Hanspeter _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] List archive: https://sourceforge.net/p/fink/mailman/fink-users/ Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users