From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#2280: 23.0.90; incorrect configuration Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 21:18:15 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87y6k6vmxf.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1337217540 17259 80.91.229.3 (17 May 2012 01:19:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 01:19:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 2280@debbugs.gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 17 03:18:59 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SUpMo-00034f-JD for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 May 2012 03:18:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37086 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SUpMn-0004Kx-UT for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 May 2012 21:18:57 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:42589) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SUpMj-0004Ik-VH for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 16 May 2012 21:18:55 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SUpMg-0006Hu-Td for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 16 May 2012 21:18:53 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:48759) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SUpMg-0006Hh-ND for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 16 May 2012 21:18:50 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SUpMs-00037X-D8 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 16 May 2012 21:19:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Stefan Monnier Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 01:19:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 2280 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs,ns X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 2280-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B2280.133721751611956 (code B ref 2280); Thu, 17 May 2012 01:19:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 2280) by debbugs.gnu.org; 17 May 2012 01:18:36 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58304 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SUpMS-00036m-Im for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 16 May 2012 21:18:36 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.143.162]:9005) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SUpMQ-00036Z-7L for 2280@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 16 May 2012 21:18:34 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AjIKACxOgk9FpZcD/2dsb2JhbABDtheCDAOBDIEIggkBAQQBViMFCwsOJhIUGA0kiBwFtjKLYYR5BKRFgV2DAw X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.75,391,1330923600"; d="scan'208";a="180643227" Original-Received: from 69-165-151-3.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.165.151.3]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 16 May 2012 21:18:15 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 8197B59577; Wed, 16 May 2012 21:18:15 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Glenn Morris's message of "Wed, 16 May 2012 13:17:47 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:60096 Archived-At: >> Of course, there's the issue of which one to choose if both MacPorts and >> Fink are found, as well as the issue of finding an old left-over Fink or >> MacPorts installation. > As reported in bugs #5252, #5921, #6819, ... If we're more selective (by looking for particular libraries), and if we give it lower-precedence, we should be able to eliminate most of those problems. >> So maybe one way forward is to look more carefully at which libs we >> normally want to get from Fink/MacPorts (because they're missing from >> Mac OS X) and then check which ones of these are installed where. > I disagree about the usefulness of this. I think it is straightforward > to add in those search paths if you want them (users of those package > systems may well be used to doing so), Back when I used a Mac OS X machine with Fink, I found it easier to write the patch we now use than to figure out how to pass the proper option to configure. > If we really must have this, then the suggestion of --with-fink, > --with-macports ... from bug#6819 seems the only clean way to get it. > But it seems ugly to me, and then obviously you need to keep adding such > options for every new Mac package system that comes along. I think the main issue is that to make it work right, someone needs to improve the configure code for it. Until then, you're probably right that we should comment it out. Stefan