/usr/local question

[Dominik Reichardt]

Honoring the order in PATH so when /opt/local is in front of /usr, compilers will honor that. So yes PATH has a lot to do with this. Opposed to the /usr/local issue.
Check your attitude please

Am 05.04.2012 um 10:59 schrieb Jan Stary <hans at stare.cz>:

> On Apr 05 10:49:01, Dominik Reichardt wrote:
>> As far as I can tell, /usr in PATH is being honored
>> opposed to /usr/local being picked up automatically.
> 
> I don't know how "honored" differs from "being picked up",
> but PATH has nothing to do with this.
> 
> 
>> Am 05.04.2012 um 10:25 schrieb Jan Stary <hans at stare.cz>:
>> 
>>> On Apr 05 09:00:44, Jan Stary wrote:
>>>> However, if a given port silently picks up something
>>>> incompatible in /usr/local, if might fail and often will.
>>>> 
>>>> Having macports isolated in /opt/local DID NOT save you from this.
>>>> Removing /usr/local is what did.
>>> 
>>> One more point to this: what if the colliding, incompatible
>>> software that stops a given port from building successfully
>>> is not found under /usr/local, but in /usr, which is
>>> even more prominently recognized by various build tools.
>>> 
>>> That's not made up: /usr/lib/libssl.*
>>> Say the port requires a newer version of openssl
>>> than what /usr/lib/libssl.* provides.
>>> 
>>> That's the same situation as with a port not building
>>> because some incompatbile software was found and
>>> picked up from /usr/local; except now it is /usr.
>>> 
>>> What is the advice here?
>>> Ceratinly not to temporarily rename /usr.
>>> 
>>> I argue that temporarily removing /usr/local is just as bad,
>>> and the problem of a port picking bad stuff from /usr/local
>>> is that given port's defect that needs to be fixed before
>>> the port gets built; not a reason to remove /usr/local.
>>> 
>>> (Which doesn't change the fact that /opt/local is a better prefix,
>>> I am over that already.)
>>> 
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