Macports's buggy configure scripts

[William Siegrist]

I was rebooting the servers per my IRC announcement. Sorry for the  
downtime.

On May 8, 2008, at 7:43 PM, Shreevatsa R wrote:

> The site doesn't seem to be working, so reporting a bug here:
>
> The guide says that to install two different MacPorts copies, one must
> use --with-tclpackage. But try this:
> ./configure --prefix=PREFIX1 --with-tclpackage=TCLPREFIX1 && make &&
> make install
> ./configure && make && make install.
> Now go in /opt/local and grep for TCLPREFIX1.
> Sigh.
>
> Actually, even installing two different things:
> ./configure --prefix=PREFIX1 --with-tclpackage=TCLPREFIX1 && make &&
> make install
> ./configure --prefix=PREFIX2 --with-tclpackage=TCLPREFIX2 && make &&
> make install
> did not work for me -- installing from the second prefix's binary
> would install it under the first prefix.
>
> Somehow, it doesn't surprise me at all that even MacPorts's own
> configure scripts are broken.
>
> Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
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William Siegrist
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