Snow Leopard and /usr/local

[Ben Greenfield]

I think the default is usually the default is /opt/local with usual a  
symlink to /usr/local/


On Sep 24, 2009, at 12:51 PM, Paul T Baker wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Way back when, I installed MacPorts in /usr/local.  I upgraded to  
> Snow Leopard and have attempted to get MacPorts 1.8 to install there  
> to no avail.  I know that Snow Leopard messes with /usr/local  
> permissions.  I've tried all kinds of things to convince it to go  
> there, but it won't:
>
>  configure: error: Installing MacPorts into /usr/local is not  
> supported
>
> is what I'm told.
>
> I hear that installing into /usr/local can cause problems, so my  
> guess is that MacPorts explicitly refuses to install there.  fine.
>
> Mostly I want to uninstall all of my old ports that still live in / 
> usr/local.  I can't just rm the whole thing.  So my questions are:
>
> If I install MacPorts elsewhere can I make it see all of the old  
> ports in /usr/local so it can uninstall them?
>
> If not, can I (against all advice) trick MacPorts to install to /usr/ 
> local to uninstall the ports? (I would then reinstall it elsewhere)
>
> Thank you for any help you can offer,
> Paul
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