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Date:      Sun, 31 Oct 1999 19:21:56 -0800 (PST)
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        Marc Wandschneider <MarcW@Lanfear.com>
Cc:        "'Jonathan Chen'" <jonc@logisticsoftware.co.nz>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: (use the ports luke!) RE: your mail
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9910311920130.12797-100000@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <13D5F9EDFD72D211BC3100105A1C2233054933@akira.lanfear.com>

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On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, Marc Wandschneider wrote:

> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Alfred Perlstein [mailto:bright@wintelcom.net]
> > Subject: (use the ports luke!) RE: your mail
> > 
> > 
> > Why?  Why do you insist on compiling it yourself and then ask 
> > questions
> > on how to build it when:
> 
> 	Because, eventually, i'm going to put a library in
> /usr/local/lib that's going to cause me to run into this problem again.
> The question asked as a general one:  where do i tell the system about
> libs and headers in /usr/local/XXX.
> 
> 	i can't believe that this is that obscure that only build
> masters would know about such things ...

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/path1:/path2

and for C includes:

export C_INCLUDE_PATH=/path1:/path2

btw, if the port can do it, so can you, just watch/trace what the 
port does to fix the problem.

-Alfred



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