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Re: why we hate fink

Good point. But that's not a good solution for people porting from other platforms, because they cannot know in advance that libfoo lives in /usr/local/lib. That is usually discovered by the compiler dynamically, using the so-called "polluted" method of searching the -L paths and compiler defaults.

On Jan 27, 2004, at 4:51 PM, Peter O'Gorman wrote:

Sean Ahern wrote:

> I think that's what he means, Rich.
>
> If you ever once add -L/usr/local/lib to a link line, then all successive
> -lname libraries come from /usr/local/lib (assuming they're there), rather
> than from the default Apple-provided location. That's pollution, from a
> certain point of view.

Um, you do realize that it is possible to add e.g. /usr/local/libfoo.dylib
to your link line, right? That would not 'polute' anything.

Peter


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 >Re: why we hate fink (From: Bill Northcott <email@hidden>)
 >Re: why we hate fink (From: Rich Cook <email@hidden>)
 >Re: why we hate fink (From: Sean Ahern <email@hidden>)
 >Re: why we hate fink (From: "Peter O'Gorman" <email@hidden>)



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