Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 17:35:12 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Finding libraries to link with and autoconf resources? Message-ID: <45CFC450.40609@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <17871.43303.763189.645799@gromit.timing.com> References: <45CE8BEC.7050404@u.washington.edu> <17870.42419.779434.735451@bhuda.mired.org> <2D763A31-2BAF-4AD5-A256-273CD37EB7A5@u.washington.edu> <17871.29428.183244.232189@gromit.timing.com> <17871.34327.776800.460172@bhuda.mired.org> <17871.43303.763189.645799@gromit.timing.com>
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John E Hein wrote:
> Mike Meyer wrote at 16:09 -0500 on Feb 11, 2007:
> > In <17871.29428.183244.232189@gromit.timing.com>, John E Hein <jhein@timing.com> typed:
> > > In your freebsd port, there is a common idiom that looks like this
> > > in the Makefile:
> > >
> > > LDFLAGS+=-L/your/path/to/png/lib
> > > CPPFLAGS+=-I/your/path/to/png/include
> > > CONFIGURE_ENV=CPPFLAGS="${CPPFLAGS} LDFLAGS="${LDFLAGS}
> >
> > The port idiom is correctly more like:
> >
> > LDFLAGS+=-L$(LOCALBASE)/subdir/to/png/lib
> > CPPFLAGS+=-I$(LOCALBASE)/subdir/to/png/include
> >
> > to get LOCALBASE correct.
>
> Not if you don't have it in LOCALBASE ;) (that's one of the problems I
> have with ports - they all assume everything is in LOCALBASE, but I
> often want to try stuff that I put elsewhere).
>
> But, yes, most ports do something like that.
>
>
> > > ports@ is a better place to ask such questions, by the way.
> >
> > Unless it's really an autoconf question, in which case the right place
> > would be an autoconf list.
>
> True enough... or the author of the original software if you really
> want them to fix their configure / configure.in
>
> But ports@ or the PH is a good place to ask about working around such
> upstream problems and getting it built on FreeBSD.
Ok, will keep that in mind and I'll "forward" my question to
that list. I just want to get the build going so then I can figure out
what stuff needs to be modified for FreeBSD :).
I appreciate the tips.
Thanks!
-Garrett
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