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On 5/28/10 9:29 PM, Daniel Johnson wrote:
> 
> On May 27, 2010, at 9:02 AM, Hanspeter Niederstrasser wrote:
> 
>> Besides gccXX (and local/libgmp seems to be the most common culprit 
>> there), are there other packages that routinely suffer from /usr/local 
>> interference?  A CompileScript check for /usr/local in those packages 
>> could similarly be done.  If the same underlying mechanism as buildlock 
>> removal and BuildConflicts is used, based on my experience with it, I'm 
>> not sure it's robust enough, and in this case it will be affecting 
>> things _outside_ of %p.
> 
> Fink's db* packages fail to build if a /usr/local/include/db.h is present. I 
> was seeing so many failure reports that I put code in CompileScript to check 
> for it and terminate the build with a message explaining what was wrong and 
> how to fix it. Since then I've not seen any such failure reports.
> 
> Daniel
> 
> 

Another option might be to have Fink check for /usr/local and issue a
warning message that blocks further action without user intervention.

Some users will complain about that, of course.

- -- 
Alexander Hansen
Fink User Liaison
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