Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2017 10:31:32 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> To: Tijl Coosemans <tijl@freebsd.org> Cc: =?UTF-8?Q?Dag=2DErling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>, ports@freebsd.org, "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" <arch@freebsd.org>, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: manpath change for ports ? Message-ID: <CANCZdfqn53iitjOK1B3RuFFnpn5U-6Vs_L=HP%2BxrAaXXutW=tw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20170308182124.79c4bc13@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> References: <20170306235610.cmpxk27jhoafel6l@ivaldir.net> <86mvcvojzt.fsf@desk.des.no> <20170308182124.79c4bc13@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org>
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On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 10:21 AM, Tijl Coosemans <tijl@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Wed, 08 Mar 2017 16:39:50 +0100 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav <des@des.no> = wrote: >> 4) Remove the hardcoded library path in lang/gcc* >> >> This makes it possible to work on software that includes both libraries >> and programs while an earlier copy of the same software is already >> installed. With the current state of gcc, the programs you are working >> on will be linked against the version of the library that's already >> installed instead of the version you just compiled, and there is nothing >> you can do to prevent it. You won't notice anything if all you ever do >> is "make && make install", because the new library will replace the old, >> but if you try to run your program directly from the build tree, it will >> use the wrong library. This can be incredibly frustrating if you're not >> aware of it - imagine you're trying to fix a bug in that library and no >> matter what you do, your regression test keeps failing... > > Are you talking about gcc implicitly searching /usr/local/include and > /usr/local/lib? That's currently inconsistent between base gcc, clang, binutils and ports versions. I forget which ones do and which ones don't search automatically. IMHO, they all should. Warner
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