[MacPorts] #47755: Broken symlink left by select code when selected port is deactivated causes poppler and other ports using aclocal to fail during configuration.

[Mojca Miklavec]

On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 11:20 PM, Christopher David Ramos wrote:
>
> Please forgive me if what I'm suggesting is not feasible. That said, it
> was my understanding that makefiles include instructions on what and
> where libraries should be built.

Yes.

> If there were a special Macports
> version of git that included a daemon, could it not be used to overrule
> the default install directories for any libraries a git project's
> makefile may call for?

Generally it shouldn't be.

While it is *not exactly impossible* to adjust installation locations
of directories and libraries based on whatever crazy idea the main
developer comes up with***, no sane setup should change installation
directories based on whether the git binary comes from /usr/bin/git or
/opt/local/bin/git.

Mojca

*** the author of makefile is of course free to use rules like "if
folder '/opt/local' exists, then run 'rm -rf /'".