Allow bootstrapping on 10.14.5 w/ perl 5.18.4

[nieder]

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[nieder]

bb608f2 and 4be81e2 are needed for bootstrapping.

e13ad45 is necessary, but I'm not sure sufficient , to create a new dist for 10.14.5.

[akhansen]

Seems sensible to me.

[akhansen]

Bootstrap worked for me (10.14.5/Xcode 10.2)

Fionna:fink hansen$ /tmp/sw/bin/fink list perl
Scanning package description files..........
Information about 319 packages read in 1 seconds.
p perl5184-core [virtual package]
p perlio-eol-pm51 [virtual package]
p perlobjcbridge- [virtual package]
i system-perl 5.18.4-1 [virtual package representing perl]
p system-perl5184 [virtual package]

[mrvacbob]

I tried bootstrapping on 10.14.6 with this and get a failure:

/sw/bin/fink -y install gettext-bin libgettext8-dev libiconv-dev libncurses5
Use 'fink reinstall fink' to switch distributions
from 10.14.5 to 10.14.
'install' operation not permitted.
### execution of /tmp/fink.4nAiX failed, exit code 29
phase compiling: dpkg-1.10.21-1248 failed

[nieder]

@mrvacbob was this a fresh bootstrap, or an update of an existing install?

[mrvacbob]

This is a fresh bootstrap from the nieder-5.18.4-bootstrap branch on 18G29g.

[nieder]

What does 10.14.6 report with uname -a ?

[mrvacbob]

Darwin asimac.local 18.6.0 Darwin Kernel Version 18.6.0: Tue May 7 22:54:55 PDT 2019; root:xnu-4903.270.19.100.1~2/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64

[akhansen]

@mrvacbob, @nieder, that's probably due to what @PovlAbrahamsen noted above, because when the tests fail they fall through to 10.14 instead of 10.14.5.

[nieder]

648179b should take care of unreleased versions accidentally falling back to Dist: 10.14 and not 10.14.5.

However, I think line 260 in Engine.pm needs to be tweaked because I think I hardcoded it to only work as intended when 10.14.5 (distribution field) == 10.14.5 (os version). And I don't know enough perl to grok the versions correctly as version numbers and not as strings or decimals.

[akhansen]

version->parse() is what is used to convert the strings/decimals into version strings.

[nieder]

That conditional is driving me nuts.
Don't do an upgrade if

1. $osversion == $distribution (<=10.14 and presumably 10.15 coming up if Apple returns to form), or
2. if $distribution == 10.14.5, then check if $osversion_long == $distribution.

(2) is meant to catch macOS 10.14.[67...], where $distribution = 10.14.5, but $osversion_long != 10.14.5. And the leading if for (2) is because we normally don't want to compare against $osversion_long, except in the 10.14.5 case.

Does this make sense?

[nieder]

To update, this worked for me as a both a fresh install (./bootstrap) on 10.14.5 and just tested an upgrade from 0.44.1 (./inject) on 10.14.5.

Not tested on 10.14.6 but I think the pseudocode in m previous comment should work if someone could help with the actual perl code.

[akhansen]

I looked at this a bit, but I haven't gotten to the point of actual code yet--I've been doing paid job stuff over the weekend.

[nieder]

To install this work in progress Fink on a fresh Mac with 10.14.5

• Download https://github.com/fink/fink/archive/nieder-5.18.4-bootstrap.zip
• expand zip file, and from inside directory, run ./bootstrap.

[akhansen]

Where are we at on this?

[nieder]

I've tested fresh installs on 10.14.5 and .6beta and updates from a previous 10.14.4 setup. Other people on the mailing lists have also reported success.

[sclint13]

Hey, I have been trying to download Fink to my Mac on 10.14.5 using the zip from nieder, but I keep getting an error with my dpkg files. I have attached the latest log from running bootstrap. I also tried fink selfupdate but it fails saying

Scanning package description files..........
Information about 10640 packages read in 16 seconds.
The following 3 packages will be installed or updated:
dpkg dpkg-base-files tar
Setting runtime build-lock...
dpkg-deb -b /sw/src/fink.build/root-fink-buildlock-dpkg-1.10.21-1246 /sw/src/fink.build
Can't exec "dpkg-deb": No such file or directory

execution of dpkg-deb failed, exit code -1

Failed: can't create package fink-buildlock-dpkg-1.10.21-1246

It says this whether I use git or rsync. I've tried searching the Mailing List but I thought I may have better luck on here in case it is something to do with nieder's compilation?
Bootstrap.txt

[PovlAbrahamsen]

@sclint13, the issue isn't with this patch, but with a separate copy of libz, which you appear to have installed in /usr/local/lib. This seems to be throwing off the linker, preventing it from linking to the system-installed libz in /usr/lib.

gcc -L/sw/lib -framework CoreFoundation -o dpkg-deb build.o extract.o info.o main.o ../lib/libdpkg.a ../optlib/libopt.a -lz -lintl
ld: warning: ignoring file /usr/local/lib/libz.a, file was built for archive which is not the architecture being linked (x86_64): /usr/local/lib/libz.a

[akhansen]

Looks fine by me.

[nieder]

Sorry, I pushed a couple more changes. I think I'm done doing that.

[jaokiro]

I am a beginner to coding and was trying to install fink on a Mac OS 10.14.5 where I stumbled on the Perl error. I therefore used https://github.com/fink/fink/archive/nieder-5.18.4-bootstrap.zip and the installation was complete. However, when trying to launch fink, I get this error:

_You should now have a working Fink installation in '/sw'. You still need package descriptions if you want
to compile packages yourself. You can get them by running either of the commands: 'fink selfupdate-rsync',
to update via rsync (generally preferred); or 'fink selfupdate-svn', to update via svn (more likely to work
through a firewall). You should also run 'sudo xcodebuild -license' and accept the Xcode license, since
some packages will require this.

Run '. /sw/bin/init.sh' to set up this terminal session environment to use Fink. To make the software
installed by Fink available in all of your future terminal shells, add '. /sw/bin/init.sh' to the init
script '.profile' or '.bash_profile' in your home directory. The program /sw/bin/pathsetup.sh can help with
this. Enjoy.

Jareds-MacBook-Pro:fink-nieder-5.18.4-bootstrap jaredokiro$ /sw/bin/init.sh
-bash: /sw/bin/init.sh: Permission denied
Jareds-MacBook-Pro:fink-nieder-5.18.4-bootstrap jaredokiro$ cd
Jareds-MacBook-Pro:~ jaredokiro$ /sw/bin/init.sh
-bash: /sw/bin/init.sh: Permission denied
Jareds-MacBook-Pro:~ jaredokiro$

Kindly assist. Thanks._

[PovlAbrahamsen]

Run '. /sw/bin/init.sh' to set up this terminal session environment to use Fink. To make the software
installed by Fink available in all of your future terminal shells, add '. /sw/bin/init.sh' to the init
script '.profile' or '.bash_profile' in your home directory. The program /sw/bin/pathsetup.sh can help with
this. Enjoy.

Jareds-MacBook-Pro:fink-nieder-5.18.4-bootstrap jaredokiro$ /sw/bin/init.sh
-bash: /sw/bin/init.sh: Permission denied
Jareds-MacBook-Pro:fink-nieder-5.18.4-bootstrap jaredokiro$ cd
Jareds-MacBook-Pro:~ jaredokiro$ /sw/bin/init.sh
-bash: /sw/bin/init.sh: Permission denied

You need to run ". /sw/bin/init.sh" - note the period and space before "/sw/bin/init.sh".
Or, alternatively, run /sw/bin/pathsetup.sh (without a period and space) to set up your computer to use Fink.

[jaokiro]

Thanks. It works now:)

[peytondh]

Not all seems perfect, as shown by trying to install package:
"molmol 2k.2.0-1056 Molecular graphics display program"

So..., as pasted from the terminal under tcsh:
% fink install molmol
Information about 10644 packages read in 1 seconds.
Can't resolve dependency "texi2html" for package "autoconf2.6-2.69-6" (no matching
packages/versions found)
Exiting with failure.

[akhansen]

@peytondh that's an independent issue.

[peytondh]

akhansen:
Sure, but it seems that there are multiple such definition files missing after a self-update. So a lot of installs can't be done. These were not missing in earlier versions.

[akhansen]

My point is that those have nothing to do with the fink code itself. Those are covered in the Fink distribution repository (fink/fink-distributions). Basically, nothing that goes on here in this repository will address that.

[peytondh]

Thanks, and forgive my ignorance about devision of responsibilities. I just wanted to let people know about the issue, so that the right people could address it.

[nieder]

@peytondh Package changes for 10.14.5 are tracked in fink/fink-distributions#423

[peytondh]

Confirmed. Works.

Thanks to all!