MacPorts 1.5.2 now available

[Bryan Blackburn]

On Aug 21, 2007, at 3:33 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
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>
> Devs: I think this problem occurs because MacPorts needs a newer  
> version of readline than the one you have in /usr/local. Couldn't  
> we add a check to ./configure to make sure the correct version of  
> readline is available, and issue a sensible error message if not,  
> rather than failing with this unfortunate undefined symbols error  
> later on? Or, couldn't we instruct configure never to look for  
> anything in /usr/local? I believe the latter has been suggested  
> before but I don't remember the outcome.
>

The last time I looked into something like this, it was my conclusion  
that /usr/local is considered special by gcc and hence, you can't  
remove it from the list.  It would definitely be a great thing if  
this has changed, or I was wrong, because having MP tell gcc to  
always ignore /usr/local would definitely solve many problems, the  
recurring readline issue being one of the most common of course.

Bryan