On Oct 2, 2004, at 6:01 AM, Martin Costabel wrote:I should add that on this machine which is not under my exclusive control, /usr/local was populated by some Wierda iinstaller aficionados who even installed libwmf. Sebastien, did you also have /usr/local/lib/libwmf* things installed?
-- Martin
I don't think I can easily make it ignore /usr/local, but I can try to add a system-libwmf-shlibs for it.
I have also had problems with various packages interacting with /usr/local when building. This has caused me grief when I later used apt-get to install from those debs on other machines, which didn't have the same stuff in /usr/local. I finally learned to move /usr/local/lib before building from fink, and then move it back afterwards. But I sometimes forget.
It certainly would be nice to have fink automatically deal with this situation. I have seen discussions before about various ways to do this, but no one was ever able to come up with a perfect solution, so nothing is done. But I believe this is a big enough problem that even an imperfect solution may be better than no solution at all.
Why not have an optional flag in fink.conf - if this flag is set then fink will move /usr/local/lib (or should that be all of /usr/local?) out of the way before building anything, and then move it back after the build is complete. I effectively do this with an alias:
alias finku='sudo mv /usr/local/lib /usr/local/lib.moved;fink update-all;sudo mv /usr/local/lib.moved /usr/local/lib'
There are issues that the user needs to be aware of:
1. he can't use software that needs /usr/local while building things from fink, and
2. if fink crashes, he may need to manually move /usr/local/lib back in place.
The default should be for fink to leave /usr/local alone, because of the above issues. But we should offer the user an optional, automatic way to deal with /usr/local during builds, if he decides that he is prepared to live with those issues.
Kevin Horton
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