[Xastir] cvs issue(with OSX)

[N1OFZ]

I'm happy to give it a shot but there are a couple of things that need 
to be decided:

- Are we going to assume/suggest that OSX users use Apple's X11 distro 
with Fink?
- If so then then we should assume the default install installation 
will be in /sw

The problem (for non OSX users) is that we have about 4 different 
XFree86 implementations available for OSX.  The Fink group has also 
written a really nice package manager (based on dpkg) that works with 
all of them.  However due to a number of issues the Fink group installs 
all it's software in /sw.  The reasons are as follows (from Fink):

Reason One: Third-party software. /usr/local is the well-established 
place to put software that is not part of the system shipped by the 
original vendor. This means that it is a good place to put stuff. 
However, it also means that other people will put stuff there, too. 
Most install routines will just overwrite what's there - this also 
applies to dpkg. One can, of course, choose not to install third-party 
software in /usr/local. Unfortunately, most installers don't tell you 
beforehand what they will install where.

Reason Two: /usr/local/bin is in the default PATH. This means that your 
shell will find the install programs without additional measures. But 
it also means that you do have to take additional measures if you do 
not want to use the programs. In extreme cases, this can also affect 
the system itself - many parts depend on shell scripts.

Reason Three: The compiler tool chain searches /usr/local by default. 
The compiler searches /usr/local/include for header files and the 
linker searches /usr/local/lib for libraries. Again, this is sometimes 
a welcome convenience, but it's very hard to disable should the need 
arise. You can easily disable the compiler by putting a garbage file 
called stdio.h into /usr/local/include.

Reasons 2 & 3 are exactly why I wanted to have something added to the 
docs.  The problem I see is that there may be OSX users who don't use 
Fink.

OSX users, questions, comments?



> If some of you OSX users can come up with a concise method of
> explaining this, and where to put it in the docs, I'd be more than
> happy to add it.
>
> I just saw three messages about this from Dana/Carl/Dennis.  Perhaps
> you three could talk amongst yourselves and agree on the wording?
> This week would be good:  I think we're about to go gold.