On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 5:34 AM, Marius Schamschula
<mschamsch...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Alan,
>
> On Jul 1, 2010, at 9:20 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
>
>> On 2010-07-01 19:24-0500 Marius Schamschula wrote:
>>
>>> Puneet,
>>>
>>> Don't rename the entire directory. I just rename files. In my case I have
>>>
>>> Jupiter:etc marius$ ls /usr/X11R6/include/
>>> GL             fontconfig.off libpng12.off   pngconf.h.off
>>> X11            freetype2.off  pixman-1       xcb
>>> cairo.off      ft2build.h.off png.h.off
>>>
>>
>>> Note: I have built fontconfig, freetype, gtk+, etc, and installed them in
>> /usr/local.
>>
>> Just as general advice, any time you have special versions of headers or
>> libraries that have their own unique locations, use the well-documented (see
>> cmake --help-full output) CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH and CMAKE_LIBRARY_PATH to help
>> cmake find your special version without any need to rename the standard
>> version.
>
> Unfortunately, this is not only a problem for cmake. Some autoconf based 
> packages require this as well. Since I never intend to build against Apple's 
> obsolete libraries, I have found the rename option very effective.
>


The only caveat -- will this in any way booger up any of Apple's
software or any subsequent Apple software update processes?

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