[60013] trunk/dports/databases/db46/Portfile

[Blair Zajac]

On Oct 29, 2009, at 1:05 AM, Bryan Blackburn wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 09:02:59PM -0700, blair at macports.org said:
>> Revision: 60013
>>          http://trac.macports.org/changeset/60013
>> Author:   blair at macports.org
>> Date:     2009-10-28 21:02:59 -0700 (Wed, 28 Oct 2009)
>> Log Message:
>> -----------
>> Defend against people having stuff in /usr/local that prevents db46
>> from properly building.  If somebody wants to supply a patch to
>> prevent db46 from picking stuff up from /usr/local, then I'll gladly
>> accept it.
>
> Can this test be made a bit more specific, say /usr/local/include/db.h
> and/or /usr/local/lib/libdb.a for example?  Otherwise, this is going  
> to fail
> in many places where there is otherwise nothing bad in /usr/local.
>
> Note that the general issue with /usr/local is gcc and not db46- 
> specific,
> and as far as I know, nobody's found a clean way to avoid it as yet.

Of the ports I maintain, db46 seems to be the main one that stuff in / 
usr/local causes issues.

But I haven't looked to see what stuff in there can cause a problem.   
I guess we could do a search for db*.

Blair