Re: TexInfo requires perl 5282 on Big Sur

> On Oct 29, 2021, at 10:44 PM, Hanspeter Niederstrasser <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 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

That does work.  I reset the fink.conf file back to 11.0 and ran the above command.
% sudo /opt/sw/lib/fink/postinstall.pl x86_64
Checking system... i386-apple-darwin20.6.0
11.6 does not match the expected value of 11.5. Please run `fink selfupdate` to download a newer version of fink
Use of uninitialized value $gcc in regexp compilation at /opt/sw/lib/perl5/Fink/Services.pm line 1346.
Use of uninitialized value $gcc in concatenation (.) or string at /opt/sw/lib/perl5/Fink/Bootstrap.pm line 164.
This system is supported and tested.
ln -s 10.9-libcxx /opt/sw/fink/11.3
ln -s 11.3 /opt/sw/fink/dists
/bin/mkdir -p /opt/sw/fink/dists/local/injected/finkinfo/update-packages
cp -f /opt/sw/lib/fink/update-packages/* /opt/sw/fink/dists/local/injected/finkinfo/update-packages

This seems to have worked but there are a couple of errors listed about $gcc not being set??  But fink.conf is updated and now lists the system as 11.3.

-Scott

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