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Westside guy

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Oct 15, 2003
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Hi,

I've been having some trouble with fink-unstable lately (yeah, I know, I know... it's UNSTABLE). I didn't have a clue why, until today.

When I tried to run "fink selfupdate" today I got a message about "you have gcc 3.3 installed, but you've selected 3.1 blah blah blah". Their suggestion on how to change it didn't work, but when I looked at /usr/bin the symlink gcc was pointing to 3.1, not 3.3! The file's last modified date was January 27. So I changed that setting to 3.3.

Well, things were still problematic - so I poked around inside /usr/sbin/gcc_select. Turns out that was set to 3.1 as well! Also, the gcc_select version was set to 1.3. When I look at my September system backup that's on my iPod, gcc_select's version is 2.5.

So now I know something odd is going on, but I still don't have a clue as to what or why. Can anyone lend me a clue? If it matters I'm running Panther 10.3.2, and have done all the software updates.

Thanks!

Edit: It would probably help me if you'd tell me what version of gcc_select you've got (assuming you're running Panther 10.3.2) - type 'gcc_select -v' from the terminal to find out.
 
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