I'm a beginner so be nice to me

[Brandon S Allbery KF8NH]

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On 9/3/10 04:27 , Scott Haneda wrote:
> How would files in /usr/local interfere with MacPorts as long as they are not executable files?  And wouldn't /usr/local also further have to be in your PATH?  A .h file, I can't see how that would have any impact on MacPorts while it is building something, as MacPorts tried pretty hard to work in prefix.   I would like to understand this better, but the ticket ( https://trac.macports.org/ticket/12336 ) did not really help me get anywhere.

configure scripts have an annoying habit of looking for libraries and
include files under /usr/local no matter what you tell them to do.
Additionally, if /usr/local/bin is in $PATH and any *-config scripts are
installed there, configure will ask them for path information.  (That has
largely been superseded by pkg-config, but then you have configure adding
/usr/local to the search path for *that*.)

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brandon s. allbery     [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl]      allbery at kf8nh.com
system administrator  [openafs,heimdal,too many hats]  allbery at ece.cmu.edu
electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university      KF8NH
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