Installing outside of /opt

[Bradley Giesbrecht]

Ryan: with slang installed slang2 fails to install with /opt/local/ 
include/slang.h in use by slang.


On Mar 24, 2010, at 2:46 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

>
> On Mar 24, 2010, at 15:53, LuKreme wrote:
>> On 24-Mar-2010, at 12:55, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>> You are talking about the slrn and uudeview ports in MacPorts, or  
>>> about building these from source by hand? If the former, file bugs  
>>> if they don't work. If the latter, why not use the ports?
>>
>> The port for slrn is years out of date,
>
> Ok, let's update the port then. I see we have a ticket filed for  
> this already:
>
> http://trac.macports.org/ticket/18463
>
> Since it's been (significantly) more than 72 hours and the  
> maintainer has not responded, anyone can update the port. I'll give  
> it a try in a moment.
>
>> so I am building it from source. I wanted to build against the  
>> uudeview that was already installed. The port maintainer for slrn  
>> has not responded (I've been told) to emails about updating slrn in  
>> the ports tree.
>
> If the maintainer is perpetually absent, the port can be declared  
> abandoned. See the guide for our port abandonment procedure.
>
>
>>> To build software manually against dependencies already installed  
>>> by MacPorts, you may have to set CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS, CXXFLAGS, and  
>>> LDFLAGS like MacPorts does (see all the variables MacPorts sets in  
>>> the configure phase by using debug output: sudo port -d configure  
>>> someport). Or, you can try C_INCLUDE_PATH and LIBRARY_PATH instead.
>>
>> I build slrn originally with
>>
>> ./configure  --with-ssl=/opt/local --with-slang=/opt/local
>>
>> Which worked. However I realised later that this built it without  
>> uudeview, so I tried to rebuild it with:
>>
>> ./configure  --with-ssl=/opt/local --with-slang=/opt/local --with- 
>> uudeview=/opt/local
>>
>> but that does not work
>
> Try exporting the following environment variables:
>
> export CPPFLAGS=-I/opt/local/include
> export LDFLAGS=-L/opt/local/lib
>
>
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