Clytie Siddall wrote:
This isn't practical, unless fink is going to offer all the packages people routinely need. I've needed to install occasional packages manually on a regular basis, and I'm not exactly using exotic software. Do you not install anything manually?
The problem doesn't come from building yourself, the problem comes from putting it in /usr/local.
/usr/local is an "override" location that the system compilers look in (and fink has no way to force it not to). Putting things in /usr/local means you're exposing everything to it, regardless of whether it can handle it or not. This almost always causes issues with fink, because fink expects to know what your system looks like.
Fink knows what the base OSX install looks like, and it knows what it contains, but when you inject other stuff into the mix, we can't handle every contingency.
If you were to put your hand-built gettext in /opt/gettext (or even /usr/local/gettext instead of just /usr/local) then it would only get explicitly called in when you ask for it, but putting it in /usr/local means most software doesn't have the choice whether it wants to link against it or not.
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