Just for reference:
MacPorts (former DarwinPorts) is an Open Source project that provides
Mac OSX ports for a lot (5000+) of Linux packages and libraries. It
provides a package manager similar to dpkg and all packages are
installed on /opt/local by default.
http://www.macports.org/
I don't know how many people out there are using packages from
MacPorts, but I can tell that I'm using my share: for Kannel:
postgresql83, pcre, sqlite2 and sdb for example.
Regards,
Alejandro
El 18/11/2008, a las 07:54 p.m., Stipe Tolj escribió:
Alejandro Guerrieri schrieb:
Yes, of course, but it's unnecessarily more complex and tend to
confuse
people, when it can be easily avoided.
The goal of a ./configure script is to automatically find and link
all
necessary objects for you.
/opt/local is a very common location on Mac OSX and should be
searched
by default IMHO. The patch only adds those folders when it detects a
darwin architecture, it doesn't affect other platforms at all.
hmmm, I'm sort of agreeing to Alan here. We should tend to:
a) keep only real System V and BSD4.3 (that's the old school for you
folks that
don't know ;) style standard lookup paths.
b) all others places should be inherited via CFLAGS and LDFLAGS env
variables in
the ./configure call, or via the configure own option switches.
So the big question is: Is /opt/local really that common under MacOS
X?
Any others that run MacOS that can comment?
Stipe
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