On Aug 16, 2011, at 4:44 PM, Jonathan Stickel wrote: > > On 8/16/11 13:23 , M.E. O'Neill wrote: >> By default, swig has build dependences on bison and gsed. Yet swig >> builds fine on stock OS X, so special versions of bison and gsed >> are*NOT* required. If I remove these build dependences by hand (and >> remove the line that edits the configure script to use gsed rather >> than sed), everything still builds just fine. > > I think what you are asking for is the intent of "Homewbrew":
Few people probably remember this, but back when I started using MacPorts, one of the selling points was that it used the built-in MacOS X software (as opposed to fink, which installed its own versions of everything). There was even talk about integrating with the OS Installer/receipt system (which was possibly going to be enhanced) so that versions could be verified and whatnot. Needless to say, that integration didn't happen, and as a community we decided to install our own versions of things after having lots of support issues when Apple would release an update that changed something we were depending on. -- Daniel J. Luke +========================================================+ | *---------------- dl...@geeklair.net ----------------* | | *-------------- http://www.geeklair.net -------------* | +========================================================+ | Opinions expressed are mine and do not necessarily | | reflect the opinions of my employer. | +========================================================+ _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev