Re: configure.in/darwin: remove fink dependency?

[Martin Fredriksson]

On 11 feb 2005, at 05.20, Stefan Monnier wrote:

> > In configure.in, for powerpc-apple-darwin, I believe that "using fink
> > packages if available" should be removed.  There is no use for that 
> > (as far
> > as I know?) since the needed packages (I think it's only ncurses) are 
> > part
> > of the normal development environment.
>
> Well, I added this code specifically to find some extra libs, not
> for ncurses.  I can't remember exactly which libs I cared about but 
> IIRC
> there was Xaw3d (used for the scrollbar) as well some image libs.
> There could also be gtk libs there for people who want to build with 
> gtk.
>
> AFAIK the reasons I added the code are still valid.  Maybe this only 
> makes
> sense for the X11 build and not for the Carbon build, I wouldn't know 
> (I
> only build it for X11).

I forgot about X11... (I only build for Carbon...).  I understand the 
need there.  Perhaps then it should also check for darwinports 
(/opt/local/{include,lib}) as some people use that instead of fink?

I still think it's a problem with dependencies on files which are not 
always present, but I guess one just has to be careful when building a 
binary package (I do 'mv /sw /sw.SAVE' prior to my build...).

/m