On Jan 15, 2013, at 12:13 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> > 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. > Ah--thanks for the clarification. I think I'll be taking a look at this in due course to see if I can clean things up on my machine. Jerry _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
