On Jan 14, 2013, at 18:24, Jerry wrote: > On Jan 13, 2013, at 4:43 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > >> On Jan 12, 2013, at 00:39, Jerry wrote: >> >>> Since /opt/local is seen before /usr/local/ (which has automake 1.9 in it), >>> I want to temporarily roll back macports automake to 1.11.3. I get this: >> >> Note that having software installed in /usr/local is likely to cause you >> problems with MacPorts, which is why we do not support having software >> installed there. >> >> https://trac.macports.org/wiki/FAQ#usrlocal > > I've read this discussion before. I thought it was OK to have stuff in > subdirectories of /usr/local but not OK to have stuff /usr/local directly. Is > that not correct? I know this is a flamey topic so I won't say more.
Yes, having software installed into a prefix below /usr/local is fine. For example, the official MySQL binaries are (used to be?) distributed with a prefix like /usr/local/mysql-X.Y.Z; this is fine. But installing into prefix /usr/local (i.e. files installed into /usr/local/bin, /usr/local/include, /usr/local/lib) can cause problems. _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
