[PPL-devel] Re: [SWIPL] Suggestion for the DarwinPorts version of SWI-Prolog

[Paulo Moura]

Hi Roberto,

> Paulo Moura wrote:
>
>> On MacOS X, when installing SWI-Prolog using DarwinPorts  
>> (including  the installers available from the SWI-Prolog web  
>> site), the above  header files are installed on /opt/local/lib/ 
>> swipl-x.y.zz/include/. A  possible solution would be to create  
>> links to the header files on / opt/local/include/.
>>
>
> Yes, this is what I meant.

I will try to do that for the next SWI-Prolog stable release.

> What I wanted to say is whether you plan
> to modify your install procedure so that this link is performed
> automatically (to match what happens on the Unix/GNU world) or if you
> think this is the job of third-party software providers, like  
> ourselves.

There seams to be some confusion here between the official SWI-Prolog  
distribution (i.e. the source code tarball) and the DarwinPorts-based  
installers for MacOS X, which are a user contribution to the SWI- 
Prolog project. I expect that the above proposed changes will only be  
applied to the DarwinPorts portfile (which describes a particular way  
of compiling and installing SWI-Prolog that, btw, tries to follow the  
DarwinPorts project policy regarding install locations). I do not  
expect the currently available MacOS X installers to be suitable to  
everyone. For one thing, they require an administration account,  
which not all people have, as Richard pointed out.

Cheers,

Paulo


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