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Re: scitech digest, Vol 2 #629 - 8 msgs

this sounds more like a rant against fink's habit of putting things in /sw instead of /usr/local... if fink put things in /usr/local, you'd have a pretty "vanilla" arrangement, no?

On Jan 24, 2004, at 8:06 PM, Bill Northcott wrote:

On 24/01/2004, at 5:01 PM, email@hidden wrote: 

Under OS X 10.1 or 10.2, install the fink 'dlcompat' package. Remember
to pass -I/sw/include and -L/sw/lib (assuming your fink is in /sw) and
you also may have to pass -ldl if your configure scripts don't know to
look for it.


Partisan disclaimer. - I hate Fink.

<RANT>
Be aware that if you link against Fink libraries, you are not writing code for MacOS X. You are writing code for Fink. The resulting code will not run on a vanilla MacOS X system, which in my humble view is a 'really bad idea' (TM).

Very quickly you end up with the usual Linux mess where users need to install a laundry list of libraries and tools to run your package. If the extras are installed with Fink, a lot of the MacOs X is effectively replaced because Fink puts itself at the front of the PATH. That can cause other thinks to break. In short - it sucks.

Darwin/MacOS X has really neat ways of letting you package everything you need into an application bundle or a Framework and not trample on anything else in the system, which does not suck.
</RANT>

Bill Northcott
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