[Scons-dev] MacPorts vs Homebrew on MacOS

[Managan, Rob]

Going from memory here so I may get this slightly wrong.
On OSX back in those versions I learned that the way the Latex installation was done was not in a standard directory but works since OSX adds directories to the standard that are in the file /etc/paths.d and also in files in /etc/paths/ .  We extended the darwin.py initialization routine to add these directories to the ones searched. Not sure if Detect uses those but pretty sure exists() does.

Hope this helps
Rob Managan

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> On Jun 17, 2017, at 6:53 AM, Russel Winder <russel at winder.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> Well technically OSX since my MBP is still on El Capitan as Apple will
> not upgrade it.
> 
> Homebrew puts all it's stuff into (effectively) /usr/local.
> 
> MacPorts puts all its stuff (definitely) into /opt/local.
> 
> env.Detect() searches in /usr/local but not in /opt/local. SCons thus
> discrimiates for Homebrew and against MacPorts. Is this acceptable?
> 
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