Re: DarwinPorts 1.3.1

Hi listers
and my apologies to Paul for not checking how the reply button works  
on this list.

On 01.08.2006, at 04:00, Paul Guyot wrote:

> Le 1 août 06 à 09:52, Anthony Agelastos a écrit :
>
>>> 	Readline compilation is failing for you:
>>>


>>> 	The symbols that were previously determined to exist in your  
>>> system libraries weren't really found. Have you performed any  
>>> type of surgery on your system? Particularly with the readline  
>>> libraries?
>>>
>
> Anthony,
>
> You have a copy of readline in /usr/local.
> This copy is a recent version unlike the one in /usr/lib and it  
> defines symbols with an rl_ prefix:
>

I'm new to the list and DarwinPorts (well OSS in general), so, out of  
a lack of knowledge: What would I do if this happened to me?
Could I savely delete /usr/local/readline to make this build happen  
or would I destroy (what I think are) dependencies of other programs?


You later on state

> The only good solution to this would be to add /usr/local/lib in  
> the library search path when building base/
>

Does this mean you can build different programs with dependencies (as  
mentioned above I'm not sure if I understand the concept correctly)  
on different *versions* of libraries and programs if you changed the  
search base in makefile (or is it another location - it is not clear  
to me), or do I misunderstand the problem, i.e. I understood, make is  
searching the filesystem for readline because it needs it to build  
the update of ports.

Another question: As in the example of Anthony Agelastos, ports fails  
after quite some steps. The changes make did are not reversed, right?

Please just ignore me if you feel I'm being to lazy to look up the  
answers myself.

Regards

Greg
Happy to have the time to RTFM, soon.