On May 12, 2009, at 22:40, EmmGunn wrote:

I just know some of the basics of UNIX but isn't the usr/local/ directory for user installed stuff. Why would the perl installer be looking in there for anything?

gcc, the compiler most all ports use, automatically looks in /usr/ local. We do not want it to do this but we do not know how to reliably tell it not to do this. Therefore we can only require you to ensure you have nothing there while using MacPorts.


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