On 23/10/2006, at 22.51, james tittle wrote:
On Oct 23, 2006, at 4:21 PM, Steffen wrote:
As i'm in the process of useing Fink to install the needed deps to
build Pd-extended i noticed a few things i'd like to ask about.The fist is related to the Tcl/Tk "issue". Useing Fink it happens
that Tcl/Tk [1] is a dependency for the fftw3 packages. Using the
unstable tree, gives a Tcl/Tk of version 8.4.13. Now, will then
that version of Tcl/Tk be used instead of the version supplied by
Apple....this won't conflict with the apple/aqua tcl/tk: the fink one is
different (ie. works thru x11)...fink does use tcl to do some of
it's package handling...
Ah, ok. Thanks.
Another dependency is the packaged called odcctools [2]. I don't
understand why. I know the info page say it is to "support gcc4",
but then why does it/Fink also install (yet another version of)
GCC? I don't understand it especially since there is already a
version of GCC installed with the XCode Tool, which was used to re- build Fink....XCode by default only installs one gcc version, but it's useful
to have multiple versions around, especially when trying to compile
software that may require a specific compiler version to
compile...ya might want to read up on fink: it installs many
things which you may not directly need, but that the package
maintainer needs to provide the programs you do want...it all goes
into /sw anyway, so if you decide you don't like it, just delete...
XCode gave me both gcc-3.3 and gcc-4, thats reason one why i
wondered. reason two being that Fink didn't tell that gcc was a
dependency. Well, maybe i overlook something, and evry thing was
alright.
Anyways, there might be more i don't understand about Fink. One thing
being why there is no tool to look up what packages that has a given
other package as a dependency. (i miss Portage for that reason.)
Another being that the show-deps option doesn't (have an option to)
recursively look up all dependencies for a given packages - eliminate
frustration one. I know i bark up the wrong tree, sorry. I thank very
much for the information.
Best, Steffen