[Fink-beginners] General question on libraries

[Manuel Bardi�s]

It is possible to find some libraries in several places.
For example, dlcompat is available through Fink, but it's also possible to find a dlcompat here:
http://www-jlc.kek.jp/~fujiik/macosx/10.2.X/memo/RPMonX.html
Same with CLHEP, or others... (ghostscript, Xdarwin, etc...).

Obviously I'd rather use Fink's packages since they install so neatly on the Mac.
However, some programs (Like the one I'm VERY interested in: Geant: http://wwwinfo.cern.ch/asd/geant4/geant4.html) don't run on a Mac, except for a specific port (http://www-jlc.kek.jp/~hoshina/cdc/geant4/install_log/MacOSX/ InstallGeant4.4.1_10.2-e.html) which requires some of the libraries mentioned above, available as tar-balls (mainly from http://www-jlc.kek.jp/~fujiik/macosx/10.2.X/memo/RPMonX.html).
I've tried (with no success so far) to mix the installs:
All that I can from Fink, the rest from those web-pages.
The reason of the failure isn't clear to me - since I'm not an expert on those topics - but I'm wondering if the cause could be that the libraries, although sharing the same names, are actually different (for example CLHEP has a curious behavior, as I reported yesterday on this forum).
How can I tell the difference between these libraries?

Could someone give an advice?

Thanks,

Manuel



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