finding expat Re: problem building gnupod

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jan 9, 2008, at 17:49, Eric Hall wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 02:23:05PM -0600, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>> On Jan 7, 2008, at 08:49, George Georgalis wrote:
>>
>>> I have also tried exporting DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH, expat is not found.
>>
>> That should not be necessary.
>>
>> I have p5-xml-parser and expat installed. Never seen this problem.
>>
>> The obvious difference I see is that your MacPorts prefix is /usr/
>> local/MacPorts instead of the usual /opt/local. Can you check if
>> anything ended up getting installed in the /opt/local by mistake?
>
> Also note that /usr/local is not a good prefix to use
> for MacPorts.  Some ports have specific instructions to
> ignore /usr/local as they (would otherwise) automatically
> search /usr/local and pick up items that users had
> manually (or otherwise outside of MacPorts) installed,
> which can result in confusion and later breakage.

True, /usr/local is a bad prefix to use for MacPorts. However, George  
is not using /usr/local as his MacPorts prefix. He's using /usr/local/ 
MacPorts. And there should be no problem with that.