Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 14:08:13 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org> Cc: peter@wemm.org, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why don't we search /usr/local/lib and /usr/local/include by default? Message-ID: <20020529140813.P82424@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20020528.221453.83474290.imp@village.org> References: <20020529093009.C31668@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20020529012544.14816380A@overcee.wemm.org> <20020529122327.C82424@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20020528.221453.83474290.imp@village.org>
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On Tuesday, 28 May 2002 at 22:14:53 -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <20020529122327.C82424@wantadilla.lemis.com> > "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.ORG> writes: >> I'm complaining about the implementation. Since the Ports Collection >> installs by default in /usr/local, it seems reasonable to at least put >> these directories at the end of the search paths for header files and >> libraries. > > It is working as designed. /usr/local/* isn't searched by default, > and never have been in BSD. "We do it this way because our grandfathers did it this way"? > Just because Linux is lame I think that's a rather blanked statement. > doesn't mean that we should be too. No, but I can see (and have presented) good reasons. > We shouldn't search /usr/local by default because PREFIX can be set > to anything. It doesn't do any harm even in that case. > We shouldn't search it because that may break other things. What? Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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