I had libpng installed via Fink (Fink Commander). However, I then intalled libpng again manually (a newer version). Afterwards, I removed the old libpng with Fink Commander. That's when I found out that this libpng.config file was removed.
However, due to my hard drive crash, I had wiped everything out. I am now contemplating if I should mix and match things (meaning having Fink installed stuff and other manually installed packages) or should I try to do everything manually. I don't have enough Unix knowledge to really install everything myself. Fink has really been great help for me. Nevertheless, there are many OS X ports out there that Fink does not have packages for and some do require these libraries installed by Fink. I get scared when they said that these programs might have problems finding Fink installed components as they look for certain files (not during compiling/configuration/install, but the actual execution of the program) in specific places.
So, I don't have Fink (nor /sw directory) at this point, but I still would like to use Fink to install most of my OS X port packages if possible. At the same time, I would like to make symbolic links to these Fink installed components/files in where they normally would reside so that my manually installed program won't "break".
To be able to make symbolic links, I will need to know 1) where things are installed "normally" in the absence of Fink; and 2) where Fink install files from a particular package. Many thanks to Alexander, he pointed me out on how to find out what files are installed by Fink in a particular package. Does any know how I can find out what/where things might be installed without Fink for the same packages?
Also, do you guys recommend me to "mix and match" programs/packages this way?
Thanks for the help!!
Best regards,
Chia
On May 13, 2004, at 8:39 AM, Benjamin Reed wrote:
Chia Hung wrote:
Unfortunately, I am having a hard time installing gd due to the lack of libpng.config (or something like that). I know that when Fink installs libpng, this file is there, but it's in one of the subdirectories in /sw.
Is this what you were looking for?
http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/usage-general.php#compile-myself
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