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Re: gEDA-user: Fink install or binaries for Mac OS X



Could you please send me all of your .info files for bison and iverilog under /sw/fink/ (it could be in several directories, just do a search in finder, zip the whole stuff)?
It would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Frank
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On 17-Nov-05, at 4:00 PM, Charles Lepple wrote:

On 11/17/05, Stephen Williams <steve@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
You need to enable "unstable":

http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/usage-fink.php?phpLang=en#unstable

But why does iverilog depend on bison >= 2.0? Surely that is only a build time dependency, but even at that I'm surprised that a stable package depends on an unstable compilation environment.

I don't think there's an easy way to say "bison <= 1.75 or bison >= 2.0" in Fink, and have it install the right package. (My personal preference is to never ask an end-user to install bison, flex, etc. but to have those generated files be considered "precious", and included in the source tarball like ./configure scripts... but that's beyond my autoconf/make scripting abilities, so I won't push on that issue.)

As far as stable vs unstable, this is one of the reasons why iverilog
is not in the "stable" section of Fink (for 10.3). 10.4 has bison 2.0
in stable; hence iverilog could be moved to stable. I have 10.4
installed now; I should check that it works at some point.

Also, it's not like Debian where both "stable" and "unstable" packages
automatically have binary packages available - the autobuilder system
is still a work-in-progress.

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- Charles Lepple