On 22/08/2006, at 12:17 AM, Benjamin Reed wrote: > 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.
Ah, thankyou, Benjamin, for explaining that. I didn't know. I didn't deliberately place my software in /usr/local, at least I didn't know I was doing it. I don't know how to choose an install location. I simply cd to the source directory and follow the directions in INSTALL or similar (usually configure, make, make install). Can you point me to information on how I choose the install destination of manual source installs, please? Thankyou for your help. :) from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhóm Việt hóa phần mềm tự do) http://groups-beta.google.com/group/vi-VN, ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
