Honoring the order in PATH so when /opt/local is in front of /usr, compilers will honor that. So yes PATH has a lot to do with this. Opposed to the /usr/local issue. Check your attitude please
Am 05.04.2012 um 10:59 schrieb Jan Stary <[email protected]>: > On Apr 05 10:49:01, Dominik Reichardt wrote: >> As far as I can tell, /usr in PATH is being honored >> opposed to /usr/local being picked up automatically. > > I don't know how "honored" differs from "being picked up", > but PATH has nothing to do with this. > > >> Am 05.04.2012 um 10:25 schrieb Jan Stary <[email protected]>: >> >>> On Apr 05 09:00:44, Jan Stary wrote: >>>> However, if a given port silently picks up something >>>> incompatible in /usr/local, if might fail and often will. >>>> >>>> Having macports isolated in /opt/local DID NOT save you from this. >>>> Removing /usr/local is what did. >>> >>> One more point to this: what if the colliding, incompatible >>> software that stops a given port from building successfully >>> is not found under /usr/local, but in /usr, which is >>> even more prominently recognized by various build tools. >>> >>> That's not made up: /usr/lib/libssl.* >>> Say the port requires a newer version of openssl >>> than what /usr/lib/libssl.* provides. >>> >>> That's the same situation as with a port not building >>> because some incompatbile software was found and >>> picked up from /usr/local; except now it is /usr. >>> >>> What is the advice here? >>> Ceratinly not to temporarily rename /usr. >>> >>> I argue that temporarily removing /usr/local is just as bad, >>> and the problem of a port picking bad stuff from /usr/local >>> is that given port's defect that needs to be fixed before >>> the port gets built; not a reason to remove /usr/local. >>> >>> (Which doesn't change the fact that /opt/local is a better prefix, >>> I am over that already.) >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> macports-users mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users > _______________________________________________ > macports-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
