On Wed, Feb 01, 2012 at 04:38:05PM -0600, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > Yup. It was never clear to me why we added CPATH and LIBRARY_PATH to MacPorts > base, since the existing CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS we set in the configure phase > should have the same effect for properly-behaved ports, and > improperly-behaved ports should be fixed.
I believe the thinking at the time was that we would eventually remove the default CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS in favor of CPATH and LIBRARY_PATH. They're not quite identical; CPATH and LIBRARY_PATH are preferable because they come later in the search order. This makes a difference for some ports (texlive-bin comes to mind). Of course, that was all before we were using clang... Dan -- Dan R. K. Ports MIT CSAIL http://drkp.net/ _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
