structure and names of directories in /opt/local

2009-02-16 Thread David Epstein
Can someone say something about the general structure of /opt/local. For example, what kind of material goes into "share", and why is it called "share"? Who is sharing it? I recognize src as source, but what is var about? Thanks David -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/struc

Re: qt4-mac dependencies - 2 RDBMS?

2009-02-16 Thread Rainer Müller
Marcus Calhoun-Lopez wrote: > As far as I know, no port relies on either the postgresql or mysql > functionality. > Some users might want it however. So there is no need to enable it by default and users can choose the variants if they want to. As you say it only affects some, not all users. And

Re: qt4-mac dependencies - 2 RDBMS?

2009-02-16 Thread Marcus Calhoun-Lopez
Joshua Root macports.org> writes: > > I don't see an explanation for why postgresql and mysql are needed in > that revision or the linked tickets, though. Is it documented somewhere? > As far as I know, no port relies on either the postgresql or mysql functionality. Some users might want it h

Re: qt4-mac dependencies - 2 RDBMS?

2009-02-16 Thread Joshua Root
Adam Mercer wrote: > On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 11:43, Marcus Calhoun-Lopez > wrote: > >> Qt4 used to behave as you suggest. >> It was changed in r44200 >> (http://trac.macports.org/changeset/44200/trunk/dports/aqua/qt4-mac/Portfile). >> >> Some of the variants were removed because they were needed

Re: How to specify (default) compiler options and choose which compiler

2009-02-16 Thread Rainer Müller
Marcus Calhoun-Lopez wrote: > You could write a shell script which overrides the default values > port install $1 > configure.compiler=gcc-4.2 > configure.optflags=-fast > configure.m64=yes > configure.march=nocona > > You can also edit the file > ${prefix}/share/macports/Tcl/port1.0/portconfigure

Re: qt4-mac dependencies - 2 RDBMS?

2009-02-16 Thread Adam Mercer
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 11:43, Marcus Calhoun-Lopez wrote: > Qt4 used to behave as you suggest. > It was changed in r44200 > (http://trac.macports.org/changeset/44200/trunk/dports/aqua/qt4-mac/Portfile). > > Some of the variants were removed because they were needed by other packages > (r44200 li

Re: How to specify (default) compiler options and choose which compiler

2009-02-16 Thread Marcus Calhoun-Lopez
Ceriel Jacobs gmail.com> writes: > > My goal is to build speed optimised binaries for 10.5 Core2Duo: -fast - > march=nocona (-m64). > > The -march=nocona requires gcc 4.2 or higher. > The default on MacOS is still gcc 4.0. > I know I can use ./port ... configure.compiler=gcc-4.2 > > Questions

How to specify (default) compiler options and choose which compiler

2009-02-16 Thread Ceriel Jacobs
My goal is to build speed optimised binaries for 10.5 Core2Duo: -fast - march=nocona (-m64). The -march=nocona requires gcc 4.2 or higher. The default on MacOS is still gcc 4.0. I know I can use ./port ... configure.compiler=gcc-4.2 Questions: - how to specify gcc 4.2 *by default* within MacPor

Re: qt4-mac dependencies - 2 RDBMS?

2009-02-16 Thread Marcus Calhoun-Lopez
Adam Mercer macports.org> writes: > > Hi > > I'm wanting to write a port for some QT based software and looking at > the dependencies for qt4-mac I see that it depends on both mysql5 and > postgresql83, in addition to sqlite: > > Does this really need to depend on two different RDBMS, isn't SQ