Can't selfupdate -- libcurl present but not found

[Philip Hudson]

> On Oct 15, 2007, at 5:45 PM, Philip Hudson wrote:
>
>> On 15 Oct, 2007, at 5:39 pm, Daniel J. Luke wrote:
>>
>>>> configure: error: cannot find curl-config. Is libcurl installed?
>>>>
>>>
>>> curl-config should be in /usr/bin (it is provided by the BSD.pkg)
>>>
>>
>> Thanks Daniel. That's improved things a lot. I symlinked the
>> MacPorts curl and curl-config in /usr/bin and got a bit further.
>
> Your system is messed up if there's no apple-provided curl-config in /
> usr/bin - you should fix that instead of symlinking things around

One look at /usr/bin shows that long ago I had moved the Apple- 
standard ones, leaving $PATH to find the (more recent) MacPort ones.  
I've now moved the Apple ones back to /usr/bin so all is as it should  
be.

> The macports configure script (and build system) tries to avoid
> depending on things that macports installs (because if you uninstall
> macports curl later but macports depends on curl, how will you fix  
> it?).

It's obvious when someone points it out to you. I was being too  
clever (read: stupid).

Thanks Daniel.

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