fltk problems

[Yves de Champlain]

Le 07-04-09 à 20:35, Ken McGaugh a écrit :

> Hi all,
>
> I have just recently started to use macports under OSX and I am  
> replacing all my manually installed libraries/tools
> with ones installed via macports.  I've run into many problems with  
> the fltk-1.1.7 port...
>
>   1.  It crashes with a bus error.  If I build it manually it works  
> OK.  I think this is related to the following issues.
>
>   2.  It is built as an x11 library even though it places the  
> resulting "fluid" application into /Applications/MacPorts/fltk
>        and asks you to bless the file with "fltk-config --post",  
> both of which imply it should be a native aqua application.
>
>   3. It isn't built with --enable-threads which is needed by quite  
> a few apps.
>
>   4. It depends on many libraries which come with OSX, but forces  
> you to build redundant versions of them through macports.
>
> In my brief experience with macports it seems that fltk needs to  
> have multiple variants to handle the above issues.  One
> of my questions is that should the base variant of fltk be the x11  
> version or should it be aqua with the variant being x11?

Absolutely.  This is a really silly error.  The fact that it is  
listed as a x11 port dos not change anything else than being confusing.

> Also, is there a way to dynamically have macports know if  
> preinstalled versions of libraries exist and use them instead?

There is, but it often turns out to be a bad idea.  If it helps  
making the port work, then that is another story.

yves