Re: [PATCH] Extra Includes and Libs locations for MacPorts on Mac OSX

Just for reference:

MacPorts (former DarwinPorts)  is an Open Source project that provides  
Mac OSX ports for a lot (5000+) of Linux packages and libraries. It  
provides a package manager similar to dpkg and all packages are  
installed on /opt/local by default.

http://www.macports.org/

I don't know how many people out there are using packages from  
MacPorts, but I can tell that I'm using my share: for Kannel:  
postgresql83, pcre, sqlite2 and sdb for example.

Regards,

Alejandro

El 18/11/2008, a las 07:54 p.m., Stipe Tolj escribió:

> Alejandro Guerrieri schrieb:
>> Yes, of course, but it's unnecessarily more complex and tend to  
>> confuse
>> people, when it can be easily avoided.
>>
>> The goal of a ./configure script is to automatically find and link  
>> all
>> necessary objects for you.
>>
>> /opt/local is a very common location on Mac OSX and should be  
>> searched
>> by default IMHO. The patch only adds those folders when it detects a
>> darwin architecture, it doesn't affect other platforms at all.
>
> hmmm, I'm sort of agreeing to Alan here. We should tend to:
>
> a) keep only real System V and BSD4.3 (that's the old school for you  
> folks that
> don't know ;) style standard lookup paths.
>
> b) all others places should be inherited via CFLAGS and LDFLAGS env  
> variables in
> the ./configure call, or via the configure own option switches.
>
> So the big question is: Is /opt/local really that common under MacOS  
> X?
>
> Any others that run MacOS that can comment?
>
> Stipe
>
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