[Xastir-dev] --with-bdb-include=/sw/include/db4

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, Dan Brown wrote:

> That said, I tend to agree, you can't check for every odd configuration.
> In this case, where there are basically 2 different versions of berkeley db
> installed, the default that comes with the system, /usr/include/db.h and
> the one that fink installs, /sw/include/db4/db.h, shouldn't there be some
> preference for "known" package managers, where the installed package will
> almost always be newer and prefered than the system version?

Well, that would be Fink, DarwinPorts, and (gentoo?) and that's just one 
platform.

It seems like it would be easier to just provide a Fink port of xastir, 
which by virtue of setting prefix would make the right thing just happen, 
and should require no changes to the configure script.