Currently, I need to know if I can quit the terminal, it still doing all that checking and compilng, and my system will be fine. I cannot leave this machine in administrator over the weekend. Sorry.

Nsee,

I think something is going very wrong with your installation of Fink, it shouldn't take so long, so you better stop the compilation, we will cleanup later and start again.

And I must say, we are not understanding each other very well, why didn't you downloaded the Fink installer I pointed to you?

So, which Fink installer you downloaded, can you point to the web page?

I just finished compiling 'atlas version-3.4.1-2' from source with Fink and although is a rather complicate install due to all the questions asked during the configure process, it installed without any problem.

As soon as you install Fink succesfully I will post the configuration that worked for me.

Blas help
 

Thank you very much. i just have to go over several points. i did stop the installation, and do not worry, i have full administrator access over the machine, plus, i have 40 identical systems that i can "try" various configuratiosn with.
My questions are:
1) Should i try again with exclusivly your link, will that work for 10.2.6
2) Should I try darwinports instead (http://www.opendarwin.org/projects/darwinports/), using fink2dp for any missing packages http://www.opendarwin.org/pipermail/...er/000370.html
3) would it help if i used a more unix like enviroment like x11 or xfree86 or xdarwin exclusively
4) Any other requirements you belive i should follow?

Yes, it will work.

I have to stop now and go to sleep, as it is very late in Singapore, will continue tomorrow...

Nsee,

You might have a partial installation of Fink already, so check if you have a /sw directory. If you do, let's remove it to start a clean installation. Run in terminal.app:

sudo rm -rf /sw


Then, please follow the steps below:

1- Download the Fink Installer from here:

http://fink.sourceforge.net/download/index.php

2- Install Fink:

"Double-click "Fink-0.5.2-Installer.dmg" to mount the disk image, then double-click the "Fink 0.5.2 Installer.pkg" package inside. Follow the instructions on screen".

3- Set Fink environment following the indications here:

http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/user...tall.php#setup

4- After that's done, open terminal.app and run:

'fink scanpackages'

When this is done, let me know.

Note before we continue:
Do you have Apple December 2002 Developer Tools installed? If you do, you can also install with Fink, the package 'atlas' from source, like I did yesterday.

Yes i have the december 2002 developer tools installed, but since it is a weekend, I cannot access my work machine, so I will tell you my progress in two days.

Nsee,

Once you installed Fink, if you want to compile 'atlas' from source from the current-stable release (this is the most recent stable version that can be installed from source for OSX 10.2), run in terminal.app in the following order:

fink selfupdate-cvs

To update the package descriptions and a few essential core packages.

fink update-all

To update your packages to the latest available versions.

Then, if you want to install Xfree86 with Fink, run:

fink install xfree86-rootless

And finally:

fink install atlas

When compiling starts, configure will ask you a lot of questions, I selected the default answer in most cases as you can see here:

thank you so much i wil tell you how everytihng goes

After answering this last question, the compilation and tests starts.

Once install is done, you can check the following info in /sw/share/doc/atlas:

if there is nothing more too this, that is perfect
thank you very much for your help, youve done so much work on this that i could never have figured out
your probably tired, get some sleep before i end up asking too many questions (<-- joke) (and you probably can see im not too good at them either)

Nsee,

I had already installed long ago g77 (the GNU FORTRAN77 compiler) if you don't have it in your machine, when you install the 'atlas' package, Fink will probably install it, as 'atlas' BuildDepends on g77.

Well, is important that you install Fink correctly and set up the environment first. Let me know if you have any problems. Good luck.

thank you, no need to reply to this one

This is not an urgent question or a problem, now that I know how to do this, once I am able to do a mathematical transform, how fast does anyone think this will be? Has anyone had any experience with this?
Another point, over the summer I may try to make the equivalent of a mac beowulf cluster to do this, maybe with pooch, its an interesting idea to begin coding.
But these are just pipe dreams, right now I'm thankful I have the instructions.

BTW Sao, you dont need to respond to this extraneous post, you've helped me a lot, and maybe you should rest. :D (maybe one day I'll do jokes well...but today is not the day.........)

speed?
 

An African or a European transform? :)

Oh, yeah, an African transform maybe, but not a European transform. That's my point.

I have done this part

fink scanpackages returned this
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Information about 1159 packages read in 1 seconds.

dpkg-scanpackages dists/local/main/binary-darwin-powerpc override | gzip >dists/local/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/Packages.gz
Wrote 0 entries to output Packages file.
dpkg-scanpackages dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc override | gzip >dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/Packages.gz
Wrote 0 entries to output Packages file.
dpkg-scanpackages dists/stable/crypto/binary-darwin-powerpc override | gzip >dists/stable/crypto/binary-darwin-powerpc/Packages.gz
Wrote 0 entries to output Packages file.
dpkg-scanpackages dists/local/bootstrap/binary-darwin-powerpc override | gzip >dists/local/bootstrap/binary-darwin-powerpc/Packages.gz
Wrote 0 entries to output Packages file.
_________________________________________________________