On Jun 12, 2012, at 11:41 AM, Greg A. Woods wrote: > At Tue, 12 Jun 2012 11:35:59 -0700, Alexander Hansen > <alexanderk.han...@gmail.com> wrote: > Subject: Re: [Fink-users] problems compiling qt4-base-mac-4.7.3-4 >> >> On 6/12/12 11:33 AM, Greg A. Woods wrote: >>> At Tue, 12 Jun 2012 11:28:52 -0700, Alexander Hansen >>> <alexanderk.han...@gmail.com> wrote: Subject: Re: [Fink-users] >>> problems compiling qt4-base-mac-4.7.3-4 >>>> >>>> >>>> Fink can prevent problems from a user's environment settings, but >>>> it is essentially impossible to stop the build tools from >>>> dragging in headers and libraries from /usr/local, since that's a >>>> hardcoded location in their search paths. >>> >>> Then I guess that's a problem that only pkgsrc has solved! :-) >>> >> >> On OS X? That's all I'm covering here. > > Apparently (since it does the same tricks on all supported platforms), > though as yet I've personally only used pkgsrc on NetBSD. > > At the time I wanted to add third-party open-source stuff to OS X the > pkgsrc versions of things I was most interested in were not as > up-to-date as they were in fink. >
I've never used pkgsrc so I have no idea what tricks they have, but I do know that the hardcoding of /usr/local into search paths which exists in OS X does not exist in Linux or the various BSD's. So perhaps their tricks do not work the same way on OS X… ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.macosx.fink.user Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
