[AD] Re: [ alleg-Bugs-1154473 ] Mac OS X Instal (4.1.18)

[Peter Hull <peter.hull90@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday, March 7, 2005, at 11:12  am, 
alleg-developers-request@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Perhaps we could create symlinks to the files in /usr/local/bin
> from /usr/bin on MacOSX if we don't want to install there? Although in
> that case it wouldn't matter if we do or not, I guess... anyway, I 
> think
> Allegro should work out of the box on MacOSX without problems. So if 
> Apple
> considers it good form to install to /usr/ rather than /usr/local/ I 
> think
> we should follow their guidelines

Deciding where to install is what ./configure does, but IIRC you don't 
use configure for OSX, just fix.sh.

When I do gcc -v -E - </dev/null , /usr/local/include is in the list of 
directories to search (in OSX 10.2 and 10.3), but the directory doesn't 
exist in 10.3, as you said.

I think it should go in /usr/local/ , creating the directories if 
needed, and maybe fix.sh could check your path.

The 'true' Macintosh OS X way is not to have includes or lib at all, 
but to use Frameworks. Therefore I wouldn't worry about 'good form' in 
this case.

Pete

ps. Evert - have you been doing a bit of spring cleaning in your Inbox? 
About a dozen postings from you today!