Framework install location

[Blair Zajac]

On Oct 11, 2008, at 2:23 PM, Bryan Blackburn wrote:

> We currently have an inconsistency concerning framework install  
> locations:
> trunk, by default, sets frameworks_dir to /Library/Frameworks [1]; the
> python ports (2.4 and later versions) all use ${prefix}/Library/ 
> Frameworks.
>
> Fortunately, frameworks_dir is only on trunk right now so can be  
> pretty
> safely changed (trunk is the in-development version, after all), and  
> it
> makes more sense to keep as much as possible under ${prefix}, so I  
> propose
> we change aclocal.m4 to use the same location as the python ports by
> default.  Going forward, the python ports will need to be updated to  
> use
> frameworks_dir instead of hardcoding, but that isn't too difficult  
> (I've
> done that for 2.6 in #16765 [2]).  Only one other port uses  
> frameworks_dir
> currently, MacPorts_Framework, so not too much work to update.

>
>
> Are there any objections to this change?  The only issue is that
> ${prefix}/Library/Frameworks isn't in the default framework search  
> path like
> /Library/Frameworks, but that is rectified with a compiler switch  
> (just like
> needing to use a switch to use libraries and headers in ${prefix}  
> now).
>

Agreed it should be under ${prefix} so you can have multiple MacPorts  
installed at the same time.

Blair

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