What is it?

Fink is a Debian-like packaging system for darwin/MacOS X.

It allows package compilation from sources as well as binary package install.

This document assumes you have Fink properly installed and running. See Fink for more informations.

1 Pike 7.6

1.1 Status

This package is known to build and run on MacOS X 10.4.x on PowerPC and x86.

The pike7.6 Fink packages has been made so that it won't conflict with pike7.2 or pike7.4 Fink packages.

Informations about this can be found online: http://bertrand.gotpike.org/

1.1 Binary package

The Pike 7.6 packages have not been submitted to the Fink team, yet. Thus, there is no official binary packages available in the Fink packages database.

However, http://bertrand.lupart.free.fr/Pike/Fink/. Place the required files in /sw/fink/dists/local/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/.

Then use the following command to install it:

sudo fink -b install pike7.6

Source Package

Get the latest Fink info and patch files for Pike 7.6 (Yes, i have to find a public git server).

Place the three required files (nettle.info, pike7.6.info and pike7.6.patch) in your local repository: /sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo/.

Then use the following command for building Pike:

sudo fink -b build pike7.6

This command will build all programs required to build Pike. The -b flag will try to use the binary distribution as much as possible, so that you won't have to compile all the dependencies, only Pike and Nettle.

Once built, you'll have to install the compiled binary packages. By default, the pike7.6 package contains everything which don't require extra dependency. Every feature that require an extra dependency is put in a subpackage. Subpackages can be listed using the command:

sudo fink list pike7.6

For example, if you want to add MySQL support in your Pike, use the following command:

sudo fink -b install pike7.6-mysql

For adding JPEG support, use:

sudo fink -b install pike7.6-jpeg

Testing

Once Pike is installed, you should be able to run hilfe from Terminal.app:

Once hilfe is running, particular aspects of the Pike interpreter can be tested interactively.

It's possible to run the testsuites on the freshly compiled Pike if the package has been built with the -Kk flags for Fink (see Hacking). Then:

cd /sw/src/fink.build/pike7.6-7.6.86-1/Pike-v7.6.86
sudo find . -name testsuite -exec bin/test_pike.pike {} &#59;

Hacking

Before hacking the package, it's a good idea to know a bit about the Fink packaging system:

• http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/quick-start-pkg/index.php?phpLang
• http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/packaging/index.php?phpLang

  For cooking a custom Pike package yourself, just edit the pike7.6.info and/or pike7.6.patch files in your local package directory (/sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo/).

sudo fink rebuild -b -k -K pike7.6

If you add something usefull in the Pike package, please share.

1.1 Troubleshoot

If you encounter a problem, send a detailed report to the Pike mailing list, using the [Fink] subject.

1 Pike 7.4

1.1 Status

This package is known to build and run on MacOS X 10.3.x on PowerPC.

Pike 7.4 has been packaged by Xavier Beaudouin.

1.1 Binary package

There is currently no binary package available for Pike 7.4.

1.1 Source package

Depending on your platform, Pike 7.4 may be available in your Fink installation. Check that:

sudo fink list pike7.4

If pike7.4 is not available, copy the pike7.4.info file to /sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo/.

Then, install pike7.4:

sudo fink -b install pike7.4

Troubleshoot

If you encounter a problem, send a detailed report to the Pike mailing list, using the [Fink] subject.

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