Mac OS X and pkg-config

[Norbert Thiebaud]

On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 7:21 AM, Stephan Bergmann <sbergman at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 06/09/2015 01:54 PM, Norbert Thiebaud wrote:
>>
>> The again if macport and other are installed in /opt something and
>> _not_ in the path when doing lo build, you are safe.
>> the issue is having extra stuff in /usr/ or /usr/local because some
>> 'helpful' external module 'config' will try to pick it up from there.
>
>
> ...and one unhelpful "feature" of MacPorts, IIRC, is to make it opt-out
> rather than opt-in to let the MacPorts installer modify your PATH in
> ~/.bash_profile

yeah.. here I turned that off and have a little script to add the
necessary thing in PATH when and only when I need/want to work with
macport stuff
by default my sessions do not have it.

Then again one could fairly easily have 2 Terminal 'profile' one lean
and clean for libreoffice work and one with extra candy

Norbert