gv and ghostscript

[Joshua Root]

On 2010-4-28 02:15 , Bradley Giesbrecht wrote:
> 
> On Apr 27, 2010, at 8:13 AM, John B Brown wrote:
> 
>> Might you explain exactly what /usr/local has to do with /opt/local.
>> Because all activity for port takes place under /opt/local what does
>> having applications in /usr/local do that would interfere with port
>> when a properly set up PATH is in operation?
> 
> One reason is that some sources are hard coded to look in /usr/local.

It's worse than that; gcc looks for headers in /usr/local/include by
default and there's no practical way to stop it from doing that.

- Josh