checking for gcc

[Thomas De Contes]

Le 11 juin 09 à 06:51, Ryan Schmidt a écrit :

> On Jun 10, 2009, at 18:49, Thomas De Contes wrote:
>
>> basic users are expected to compile ports but not MacPorts itself,  
>> they are expected to install binaries of MacPorts itself :-)
>> sorry, i forgot it :-)
>
> Well, a user who types "sudo port selfupdate" causes MacPorts to  
> build itself from source...

yes but in a "closed" environement (for example i suppose that PATH  
is replaced by binpath), like for ports

>
>
>>> Having MacPorts installation with a different prefix in PATH during
>>> configure might fail anyway if certain ports are installed (e.g.  
>>> tcl).
>>> Therefore, use a clean environment with the system's default PATH  
>>> if you
>>> don't want to use MacPorts for that.
>>
>> well, i need to compile MacPorts because i don't want to give it  
>> root rights
>
> Same here.

ok :-)

>
>
>> it's not very constraining,
>> just, sometimes i have tinny problems, and in general there is a  
>> solution :-)
>>
>>
>> but it may be very annoying, if the installation of some ports  
>> avoids to rebuild MacPorts :-(
>>
>> is there a simple way to use the system's default PATH, just for  
>> the time to build MacPorts ?
>
> Just do it! Run
>
> export PATH="/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin"
>
> before you run the configure, make and make install commands.  
> That's what I do. Then close the Terminal window to get your  
> previous PATH back.

ok :-)
i don't like very much to have fixed things (for example binpath uses  
a x11prefix path which can vary (i think)),
but if you do that, it must be right :-)

thank you :-)


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