openGL update available on mac ADC site was Re: tiff doesn't build on leopard

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Oct 28, 2007, at 00:30, CHENG Gao wrote:

>> i was facing this problem earlier today - i simply downloaded the  
>> official source tarball from the libtiff website, untarred
>> in the work dir of the package and installed away.. If you dont  
>> care about the ports registry you could compile directly; it
>> worked fine for me
>
> Maybe a better way is
> download source
> uncompress to work dir
> do ./configure and make
> then do sudo port install libtiff
>
> thus it'll be put into registry correctly.
>
> I did this for some package  (forgot its name) in this way since
> mysteriously it can not be installed by "port install" directly.

I can't recommend that procedure. Ports should install correctly  
using "port install". If they do not, please file bugs in Trac so  
someone can resolve the problem.