Hi Phlip, The following is just my opinion. What goes where is a hot debate that's been going on in the Unix world longer than I've been alive. Right now on OS X, Macports installs to /opt/local (though old versions went to /usr/local), Fink goes to /sw. That leaves /usr/local for your custom compliled stuff and /usr for Apple packages. The seperation (one package manager per dir set) is pretty valuable in a) keeping your changes from being over written accedentally and b) letting you know who is maintaining an install by its location.
Cheri, Can I ask why you are running the indexer as root? Rob notch8.com On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Phlip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > (Just jumping into the thread, and about to jump out, but...) > > Dean Holdren wrote: > > > if it's a mac, you can(/should?) make this change in /etc/profile for > > system-wide setting > > > > export PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/bin" > > Alternately, symlink: > > sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/indexer /usr/bin/indexer > > There's plenty of reasons not to do that, though. > > Did someone build sphinx from scratch with ./configure ? > > Shouldn'a that'd been ./configure --prefix=/usr ? > > Or did you install sphinx with the Darwin-ports system? > > (I'd like to find whoever invented /usr/local, as a honeypot for conflicts > with > /usr/, and smack them silly...) > > -- > Phlip > http://flea.sourceforge.net/PiglegToo_1.html > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
