On Apr 5, 2012, at 11:44 AM, Jan Stary wrote:
> However, I believe that if a port chokes on picking up
> some unintended dependency it found in /usr/local
> (or anywhere, for that matter), it is that port's
> problem: I don't think it's /usr/local's fault being
> there - I think it's the port's defect geting confused
> by that.
You are wrong.
We try to make things work (even if stuff is in /usr/local) but because
cc/ld/cpp/dyld/etc. search /usr/local by default, it can cause problems.
You can look through the mailing list archives for examples.
> Hence in terms of the (limited) resources, I believe
> it's the port maintainer's job to rectify this by
> actually fixing that (broken) port so that it no
> longer gets confused.
we do when we can.
> I am willing to help this with ports that interest me.
> Is there a way in trac to specifically select the ports
> that have this problem?
not that I know of (since you don't know what is going to be in /usr/local on
any machine)
the /real/ fix would be to either:
- change build behavior for cc/ld/cpp (which may be possible, but no one has
tried to do it as far as I know) -nostdinc (or equivalent) plus adding back the
appropriate search paths for every supported platform
- change build behavior for cc/ld/cpp by getting a macports version of the
toolchain working (and patched to not pull in /usr/local by default)
- get trace mode working so that it can be used at all times (and can prevent
things from being found in /usr/local) [this is probably the best solution]
--
Daniel J. Luke
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