On 2010-4-28 02:15 , Bradley Giesbrecht wrote: > > On Apr 27, 2010, at 8:13 AM, John B Brown wrote: > >> Might you explain exactly what /usr/local has to do with /opt/local. >> Because all activity for port takes place under /opt/local what does >> having applications in /usr/local do that would interfere with port >> when a properly set up PATH is in operation? > > One reason is that some sources are hard coded to look in /usr/local.
It's worse than that; gcc looks for headers in /usr/local/include by default and there's no practical way to stop it from doing that. - Josh _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users