From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 31 18:23:54 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB7C61065689 for ; Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:23:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bahamasfranks@gmail.com) Received: from el-out-1112.google.com (el-out-1112.google.com [209.85.162.177]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 802CA8FC0C for ; Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:23:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bahamasfranks@gmail.com) Received: by el-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id v27so756889ele.13 for ; Fri, 31 Oct 2008 11:23:53 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:reply-to :sender:to:subject:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:x-google-sender-auth; bh=hoUeaLqI+5K2p/Mxs4+zqau/uK7KbXUKTQ+ekWc9/u0=; b=CbEI5/W1gO8L8y8p6yLmzI+1yYemxv4e8TQF486zkvIthbXpfYudmsa56gEW+u9+nm ItYYgm3gUGwB9ZbmVQmFUA8U2EteICJW9W7RKbeTT19YWW8zXHwb+sA6QhP3Tu7IvoLH kS/8sHFk3y9EL9IMV068l/SVAI4LrZtD/YA7c= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:reply-to:sender:to:subject:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :x-google-sender-auth; b=S6YmGFVI8JzNwXFzwmEhrfXgOJQiuIIfL3Q7jOD4Lr2UJjvaCUgNmN2VjSMlDtR/bS U56fludS/8pnoAftxq3PJ/PjANg0DitC7G83LheLH7+1hKJiaBplpsqxBTegInzLYDrW yGEJPlnbQ6W5+Y+VCMHdTcumlIC5E6Q5MOR44= Received: by 10.142.125.9 with SMTP id x9mr4882313wfc.66.1225477433218; Fri, 31 Oct 2008 11:23:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.142.141.5 with HTTP; Fri, 31 Oct 2008 11:23:53 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <539c60b90810311123w2aa94b8akcd0a5d0fe791885a@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 11:23:53 -0700 From: "Steve Franks" Sender: bahamasfranks@gmail.com To: freebsd-hackers MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Google-Sender-Auth: 1209a4ef8afa6114 Subject: includes, configure, /usr/lib vs. /usr/local/lib, and linux coders X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: stevefranks@ieee.org List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:23:54 -0000 I believe someone has told me on this list that the proper way to compile a linux program is to run configure --includedir=/usr/local/include --libdir=/usr/local/lib. Is that correct? I've got a bunch of linux weenies trying to tell me their code isn't broken because I'm supposed to have headers where theirs are. They state that includedir is used by *their* project to locate it's *own* headers, so they never bothered to wire it up in Makefile.in....it gets ignored entirely. I figured I'd better know what I'm talking about before I tell someone they are 'wrong'. Especially as it's usually me ;) Steve