Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 11:04:58 +0000 (UTC) From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why don't we search /usr/local/lib and /usr/local/include by default? Message-ID: <ad2ckq$9ce$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> References: <20020529093009.C31668@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20020529122327.C82424@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20020528.221453.83474290.imp@village.org> <20020529140813.P82424@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> > We shouldn't search /usr/local by default because PREFIX can be set
> > to anything.
>
> It doesn't do any harm even in that case.
Yes, it does. It will just about ensure that building with a
LOCALBASE other than /usr/local will break, because if /usr/local
is searched automatically most port maintainers will forget to
specify -I${LOCALBASE}/include and -L${LOCALBASE}/lib.
--
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de
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