problem with libraries path

[paul beard]

On 11/27/07, Rémi Thébault <rtbo.mailing at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I have some problems with pathes and env. variables. It seems my
> system get confused and doesn't want in some situations to find
> libraries or headers elsewhere than /opt/local.
>
> here is my profile file:
>
> $ cat ~/.profile
> #
> # Your previous .profile  (if any) is saved as .profile.mpsaved
> # Setting the path for MacPorts.
> export PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/
> sbin:/sw/bin:/sw/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/X11/bin
> export C_INCLUDE_PATH=/usr/local/include:/opt/local/include:/sw/
> include:/usr/include
> export LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib:/opt/local/lib:/sw/lib:/usr/lib
>
> I have for instance installed liblrdf in /usr/local and when I want to
> build Ardour from source (it uses scons instead of ./configure &&
> make) :
>
> ardour-2.1 $ scons AUDIOUNITS=1 COREAUDIO=1 GTKOSX=1 FFT_ANALYSIS=1
> SURFACES=1
> scons: Reading SConscript files ...
> Checking for pkg-config version >= 0.8.0... yes
> Checking for gthread-2.0... yes
> Checking for lrdf... no
> lrdf >= 0.4.0 not found.
> You do not have the necessary dependencies required to build ardour
> Please consult http://ardour.org/building for more information
>
> a workaround is to install all dependencies in /opt/local, but I don't
> like it, and some of them (like JackOSX) cannot be installed elsewhere
> than /usr/local.
>
> I would like to find a system wide way to make any building or
> configure script look first in /usr/local then in /opt/local to find
> whatever is needed (libraries or headers).
> I assue this behaviour should be automatic but it's not, and I've
> never had this kind of problem on linux.
>
> May be this a problem specific to scons ?
> I've tried to specify CFLAGS : $ CFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include -I/opt/
> local/include -I/usr/include" scons
> but the same error occurs.
>
> Rémi
> Intel Macbook, Leopard 10.5.1
>

do you still have fink installed? Be aware that you may have problems with
both MacPorts and fink co-resident . . .
And others can speak more learnedly on your other questions, but the reasons
to keep things in /opt/local are pretty hard to argue against.

-- 
Paul Beard / www.paulbeard.org/
<paulbeard at gmail.com/paulbeard at mac.com>
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