Problems installing ports

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Apr 22, 2010, at 11:18, Rainer Müller wrote:

> On 2010-04-22 16:44 , Jason DeBacker wrote:
>> My current road block has to do with .dylib file in usr/local/bin not
>                                                      ^^^^^^^^^
> 
> MacPorts uses /opt/local by default and it is strongly recommended not
> to use /usr/local.
> 
> http://trac.macports.org/wiki/FAQ#defaultprefix

What he means is: MacPorts is in /opt/local, and anything in /usr/local is something you've installed locally on your system and it might interfere with MacPorts, therefore it is not supported to have anything in /usr/local while using MacPorts. Please remove anything you have in /usr/local.