I enjoy using fink on mac for maintaining my X11/FLOSS packages. However, there are times when binary or package updates are slow to appear. One example is the most excellent ftp client “lftp.” You can read more on my prior comments on lftp here.
Fink distributes an older version of lftp, 3.6.1-2, and there is a problem with that version and my OS X 10.5. When there’s no activity, my CPU activity spikes — and it’s all lftp. I contacted the maintainer but I received no response, so, I took matters into my own hands — I compiled it myself. I’ve had generally uneven and uninspiring experience compiling code myself, but this went smoothly. I followed the fink instructions and the lftp install instructions and — voila! I now have the latest lftp running. No code tweaks necessary (but fink + XCode is required)
lftp is an awesome ftp client — check it out!
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