On 1/2/12 9:03 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 01/02/2012 11:24 AM, Teodor-Toma Silvestru Muntean wrote:
>> only choice to me is waiting or go again in adventure of building packages
> 
> There's one thing most developers don't mention in their build instructions 
> because it's so obvious
> to them: if they tell you that you need to have package foo installed, you 
> also need foo-devel
> installed as that package contains the information needed to link the package 
> to programs.  I've
> never understood why packages that are never used by themselves and are only 
> intended to be linked
> into other programs don't have that in the main package, but that's the way 
> it's generally done. If
> you try to make package bar, and it complains that it can't find foo but you 
> know you have it,
> install foo-devel and try again.
> 


This is, however, generally (completely??) not applicable for macports builds.

Craig

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