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[Fink-announce] July is "Fink Update Month"
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From: Fink P. N. <fin...@li...> - 2006-07-01 15:42:44
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<html><body> <h1><a href="http://fink.sourceforge.net/news/#2006-07-01%20July%20is%20%22Fink%20Update%20Month%22">July is "Fink Update Month"</a></h1> <p> Fink users on PowerPC machines are advised to update their copies of fink from the old "10.4-transitional" tree to the more recent "10.4" tree. We plan to discontinue the 10.4-transitional tree by the end of July, 2006. </p><p> Some background: along with OS X 10.4 came a new version of the g++ compiler (one of the workhorses of Fink), which produced code that was binary incompatible with previous versions. Fink, when using the 10.4-transitional tree, mixes the new gcc-4.0 compiler with the older g++-3.3 compiler. This strategy gave us some extra time to make packages compatible with g++-4.0. The time has now come to complete that transition, and rely exclusively on the newer tree. The update, however, is slightly complicated since all packages using or providing g++ libraries must be rebuilt in the correct order. </p><p> If you are using OS X 10.4, you can find out if you need to update your Fink installation by running the command fink --version. If the Distribution version is 0.8.1.cvs or 0.8.1.rsync, you do not need to update. However, if the Distribution version is 0.8.0.cvs or 0.8.0.rsync, you should update, as described below. </p> <p> Many users will prefer to remove their fink installations and start anew with the 0.8.1 installer. Others will prefer to use the <a href="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/fink/scripts-10.4-update-0.3.tar.gz?download">10.4-update tarball (v. 0.3)</a> (around 12 MB), which includes precompiled versions of the basic fink packages as well as a script which will attempt to update an existing fink installation. Please consult the README file which you will find within the 10.4-update directory (after unpacking the tarball) for further instructions. </p><p>URL: <a href="http://fink.sourceforge.net/news/#2006-07-01%20July%20is%20%22Fink%20Update%20Month%22">http://fink.sourceforge.net/news/#2006-07-01%20July%20is%20%22Fink%20Update%20Month%22</a></p> </body></html> |