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• nodejs FTBFS on clang16 and beyond

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  fink/fink-distributions#1312 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 16, 2026

• pth2 does not pass nested test

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  fink/fink-distributions#1311 · 6 comments · 2 assignees · Opened Aug 12, 2026

• libtesseract5-5.5.2-1 build failure on 10.14.6 (recursive_directory_iterator introduced in 10.15)

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  fink/fink-distributions#1301 · 6 comments · 1 assignee · Opened May 22, 2026

• libxml2.16 fails to build without docbook-xsl (circular dependency)

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  fink/fink-distributions#1298 · 7 comments · Opened Mar 7, 2026

• pycares fails testing phase

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  fink/fink-distributions#1297 · 23 comments · 2 assignees · Opened Mar 2, 2026

• lua* look in /usr/local rather than %p for external libraries

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  fink/fink-distributions#1290 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Dec 6, 2025

• No ghc on ARM

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  fink/fink-distributions#1284 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 8, 2025

• autotools are very old

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  fink/fink-distributions#1255 · 3 comments · Opened Jun 27, 2025

• po4a does not build

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  fink/fink-distributions#1252 · 20 comments · 1 assignee · Opened May 28, 2025

• doxygen break due to no std::char_traits<unsigned char>

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  fink/fink-distributions#1247 · 4 comments · Opened May 15, 2025

• libnewt0-shlibs will not build on recent macOS

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  fink/fink-distributions#1243 · 3 comments · Opened May 6, 2025

• emacs28-app

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  fink/fink-distributions#1231 · 10 comments · Opened Apr 14, 2025

• numpy-py310 version 1.22 does not build MacOS 15.3

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  fink/fink-distributions#1227 · Opened Mar 29, 2025

• emacs26 - install errors

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  fink/fink-distributions#1217 · 2 comments · Opened Feb 15, 2025

• Fink won't install clang 3.5.x due to dpkg bad consider

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  fink/fink-distributions#1216 · 2 comments · Opened Feb 12, 2025

• libncurses5-shlibs corrupted building fink on 10.15 catalina using bootstrap or tool fails

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  fink/fink-distributions#1213 · 18 comments · Opened Jan 26, 2025

• lftp does not build macOS 15

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  fink/fink-distributions#1200 · 23 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Dec 23, 2024

• apt does not build in Xcode 16

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  fink/fink-distributions#1196 · 28 comments · Opened Dec 19, 2024

• new libarchive31 fails test

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  fink/fink-distributions#1187 · 7 comments · Opened Nov 14, 2024

• invoke-py no longer test builds

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  fink/fink-distributions#1162 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 21, 2024

• isort-py is old and fails being used on py310

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  fink/fink-distributions#1160 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 11, 2024

• should we rearrange qt5 packages for newer upstream releases?

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  fink/fink-distributions#1132 · 5 comments · Opened Apr 28, 2024

• pexpect-py fails several sets of tests

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  fink/fink-distributions#1117 · 5 comments · Opened Jan 20, 2024

• xcodebuild is broken with fink-bld home directory on macOS 14 / Xcode 15

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  fink/fink-distributions#1115 · 2 comments · Opened Jan 6, 2024

• libbind6 is old

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  fink/fink-distributions#1092 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Oct 22, 2023

• fossil-2.22-1: error: use of undeclared identifiers 'C_IN' and 'T_MX'

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  fink/fink-distributions#1076 · 13 comments · Opened Oct 5, 2023

• gcc11 does not build Xcode 15/ MacOS 12 & 13

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  fink/fink-distributions#1073 · 2 comments · Opened Oct 3, 2023

• tcltk-8.6.10-2: nm: invalid option -- j

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  fink/fink-distributions#1063 · 7 comments · Opened Sep 26, 2023

• lazarus-doc fails to fetch

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  fink/fink-distributions#1058 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 20, 2023

• ca-certificates is old

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  fink/fink-distributions#1055 · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 9, 2023

• module-build-tiny-pm5XXX FTBS

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  fink/fink-distributions#1036 · 5 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 26, 2023

• extra-cmake-modules needs update related to python

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  fink/fink-distributions#1032 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 1, 2023

• why doesn't gyp-pyxx provide gyp???

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  fink/fink-distributions#1029 · 4 comments · 1 assignee · Opened May 26, 2023

• upgrade redis to 7.0.x

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  fink/fink-distributions#1027 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened May 14, 2023

• upgrade to samba4

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  fink/fink-distributions#1025 · 1 comment · Opened May 13, 2023

• ghc 7.10.3 is outdated and currently only only supports x86_64.

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  fink/fink-distributions#1024 · 4 comments · Opened May 9, 2023

• saga-4 is outdated and FTBS with opencv3.4

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  fink/fink-distributions#1015 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Mar 23, 2023

• Build failure: git-lfs

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  fink/fink-distributions#1013 · 5 comments · Opened Mar 20, 2023

• emacs26-app update-alternatives is broken

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  fink/fink-distributions#994 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 11, 2023

• Failed: phase compiling: mysql-unified-5.0.96-6 failed

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  fink/fink-distributions#984 · 2 comments · Opened Feb 2, 2023

• Failed: phase installing: docutils-py27-0.14-1 failed

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  fink/fink-distributions#968 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Jan 30, 2023

• python27 on arm64 and failing tests for all archs

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  fink/fink-distributions#956 · 23 comments · Opened Jan 25, 2023

• Packages that fail looking for /usr/bin/python(2)

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  fink/fink-distributions#944 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 15, 2023

• Update source checksums across the distro

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  fink/fink-distributions#909 · 18 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 13, 2022

• Scrapping java components

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  fink/fink-distributions#903 · 6 comments · Opened Apr 1, 2022

• openmpi has binaries and dev files in same splitoff, which causes upgrade mess

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  fink/fink-distributions#896 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 5, 2022

• Update HDF* packages

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  fink/fink-distributions#887 · 11 comments · Opened Feb 12, 2022

• root5 FTBFS: tangled c++ standards and deps

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  fink/fink-distributions#886 · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Feb 11, 2022

• qgis218-py27 FTBFS: missing modules?

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  fink/fink-distributions#885 · 1 assignee · Opened Feb 9, 2022

• gcc9 migration tracker

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  fink/fink-distributions#874 · 27 comments · Opened Jan 28, 2022