Peter Wong wrote:
>
> On 09.07.12 , at 02.55a, Alexander Hansen wrote:
>
>> Peter Wong wrote:
>>> <snip>
>>>
>> <snip>
>>> i'm pretty sure it has nothing to do with /usr/local, since this is
>>> what my /usr/local looks like:
>>>
>>>
>>>> [...@tipop:~]$ ll /usr/local/
>>>> total 96
>>>> drwxr-xr-x 7 root admin 238B Mar 19 2008 arm-uclinux-tools/
>>>> drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 170B Feb 2 2007 avr/
>>>> lrwxr--r-- 1 root admin 7B Mar 13 2008 bin -> /sw/bin
>>>> lrwxr--r-- 1 root admin 7B Mar 13 2008 etc -> /sw/etc
>>>> lrwxr--r-- 1 root admin 8B Mar 13 2008 fink -> /sw/fink
>>>> lrwxr--r-- 1 root admin 11B Mar 13 2008 include -> /sw/include
>>>> lrwxr--r-- 1 root admin 8B Mar 13 2008 info -> /sw/info
>>>> lrwxr--r-- 1 root admin 7B Mar 13 2008 lib -> /sw/lib
>>>> lrwxr--r-- 1 root admin 11B Mar 13 2008 libexec -> /sw/libexec
>>>> lrwxr--r-- 1 asl admin 13B Jul 15 2008 man -> /sw/share/man
>>>> drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102B Feb 2 2007 powerpc-apple-
>>>> darwin8.8.0/
>>>> lrwxr--r-- 1 root admin 8B Mar 13 2008 sbin -> /sw/sbin
>>>> lrwxr--r-- 1 root admin 9B Mar 13 2008 share -> /sw/share
>>>> lrwxr--r-- 1 root admin 7B Mar 13 2008 src -> /sw/src
>>>> lrwxr--r-- 1 root admin 7B Mar 13 2008 var -> /sw/var
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>> I wouldn't be so sure that it's not a problem. Third-party software
>> will install libraries and headers in /usr/local, and with this setup
>> it's free to overwrite your Fink-installed stuff without your knowledge,
>> just as if you'd bootstrapped fink into /usr/local directly.
>
> ah, ya. so it could create problems, but: i've only ever installed the
> arm and avr stuff with this setup, and have since updated all fink
> packages. so, potential problems aside (even if that's not a good
> setup), wouldn't updating have fixed any problems those packages may
> have caused? i really don't understand these things well, and this
> whole setup here was only to try and save some space on my hard drive
> by combining some distribution trees. i can see from your comment how
> that can end up being a really bad idea.
Yeah. You can wind up with a version of a library that is incompatible
with what Fink expects (e.g too old or too new).
> do you know, off hand, if there is anything in /usr/local by default
> on 10.4?
/usr/local is supposed to be for stuff apart from the OS which the
system administrator installs for all users of the system, so there
should be nothing from Apple.
> in other words, could i potentially solve a conflict with this setup
> by getting rid of my /usr/local (avr utilities are in fink, i saw, and
> the arm stuff was just to play around w/ ipodlinux) and then either
> updating or reinstalling fink (and as a subquestion, how would
> updating differ from reinstalling?)?
I don't believe your avr and arm stuff are related to the issue. I'm
more inclined to think that the /usr/local linkage isn't actually
hurting anything in this case, and that there's something 10.4-specific
going on. We'll have to see, though.
Oh, by the way, can you give the output of
xcodebuild -version
? That's a more human-readable way to tell what Xcode Tools version you
have installed; I don't recall what compiler version string goes with a
particular Xcode set.
You could try moving /usr/local out of the way temporarily and redoing
the build. However, since OS X hard-codes the locations of libraries
that get linked, and because the build tools treat /usr/local as
special, you may find that if you do that you'll get lots of errors.
If you do have /usr/local crossover, then you may find it easierer to
reinstall Fink rather than trying to track down and rebuild every
package that contains a library or executable that has a /usr/local
hardcoded into it. That would be the "update" option (as opposed to the
ordinary updates).
Using "rm -rf /sw" or dragging the /sw folder to the trash will suffice
to uninstall Fink, if you need to do that. The following one-line shell
item will save a copy of what is currently installed on your system
before you proceed:
fink list -it | grep -v " p " | grep -v "\[" | cut -f2 > savefile.txt
Then after reinstalling Fink you can use
cat savefile.txt | xargs fink install
to bring back anything that you've removed.
>
>>> <snip>
>>>
>> It works for me on 10.5; I don't have ready access to 10.4 (am 6
>> timezones away from my machine that can run it for a couple of days).
>> If someone else reading this who's got 10.4 can test the situation
>> that'd be great. Otherwise I'll give it a look when I get back to that
>> computer.
>>> <snip>
>
> thanks for taking the time to answer when you're so far away!
>
> -peterwong
> .
>
--
Alexander Hansen
Fink User Liaison
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