From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 21 15:50:53 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D74816A46B for ; Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:50:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bahamasfranks@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.237]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4E4A13C4E3 for ; Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:50:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bahamasfranks@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i29so817993wxd for ; Wed, 21 Nov 2007 07:50:51 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; bh=79x29hvXCP+ko128fH0AP+lM2WUgyclVDz6B8waHxyw=; b=SzsX987OnV9uZ2WTxMyeiKm/ZTe8RcDMNjyOaPidFUxuXecWuD7lYiynzb0m0FbYov4busmDu+eT1fDHpHIW0Xm/p2r6SRtMdQzFu5vUHPyYDhg3WI4qCY9L8RyxtpAcKwwciYc1u0abMGy1QMe2EHTma5EuZO3yGCdi9x3A7tg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=ABj6nMCXBaeyxbaiLx7eMFCN+LO4JIt2uiKAWuBAYl29OWzvCfNByt0EWc2ruA8WYaE8TNquQnorwgqSXxBEJh2WJ8Nr5RmXaBX76efeLTIhK9W5JNQtDRHxbRS3trh9gsPZGUTc7VLAagJ0EdfbZYnRBJ9OmI4LMuK/T7OHAPI= Received: by 10.100.57.6 with SMTP id f6mr10082493ana.1195660251532; Wed, 21 Nov 2007 07:50:51 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.100.240.4 with HTTP; Wed, 21 Nov 2007 07:50:51 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <539c60b90711210750x1249b0dard6213bb0b27f40ce@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 08:50:51 -0700 From: "Steve Franks" Sender: bahamasfranks@gmail.com To: "Chuck Robey" In-Reply-To: <4743A8BF.3070802@chuckr.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <539c60b90711201434s361ec72co898fad601f35535a@mail.gmail.com> <20071120231601.GB1161@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <539c60b90711201612o5c8cfc99ma53829b181959e15@mail.gmail.com> <4743A8BF.3070802@chuckr.org> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 6cd7f00918c52c8f Cc: rsmith@xs4all.nl, User Questions Subject: Re: arbitrary build can't find libs - right way to do this? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: stevefranks@ieee.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:50:53 -0000 > > Steve Franks wrote: > > On Nov 20, 2007 4:16 PM, Roland Smith wrote: > >> On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 03:34:29PM -0700, Steve Franks wrote: > >>> I'm trying to compile a non-port application for the first time ever. > >>> The associated library built and installed just fine - I can see them > >>> right in /usr/local/lib and usr/local/include/libnamefoo.h However, > >>> when I run ./configure for the application, it clearly can't find the > >>> libs. So my question is, should I be changing my path, is there a > >>> standard variable I need to export, or what? Obviously for ports this > >>> just works, so I've never had to do it. I'm sure there's a standard > >>> way, so I thought I'd get in the habit of doing that right from the > >>> start... > >> The best way would be to write a port makefile and submit it. That way > >> you only have to figure it out once. Especially if the app needs patches > >> to work correctly on FreeBSD. And in case of a free software app, others > >> can use it as well, _and_ help you with bugfixing. :-) For closed source > >> stuff submitting a port would probably be useless. > > > > I'd love to (submit a port), but how do I make a port if I can't even > > get it to work the first time myself? > > configure --includedir=/usr/local/include doesn't work; > > export CPATH =/usr/local/include doesn't work; > > export CPPFLAGS -l/usr/local/include doesn't work; > > I've checked the permissions, > > and I can see the file right there, but configure/gcc can't. The > > developer swears something must be 'different' about freebsd because > > his gcc finds the same file in /usr/local/include. Appears his system > > is gentoo > > You don't givec me really enoough for me to go on, but I think really > you need to know about 3 options to gcc (at least one of which you > should be using, but you aren't) > > -v = means for gcc (which is really a smallish driver program for the > real compiler) to show all of the subprograms that it kicks off, > including all of the parameters it uses, and specifically for you, it > shows the entire lib and include file search path it knows aboout. > You aren't using this, so far as I can see. > > The other two are options to add to the default search path. Above, it > seems like you are using -l to add an include file path, this is wrong, > you should use -I, -l is to specify specific libraries to link in, not a > path to search for the libs in. To add a library search path, you use -L. > > Well, after several permutations, I believe the magic string was: export CPPFLAGS='-I/usr/local/include' Near as I can tell, double quotes, CFLAGS, and CPATH were all failures, but I ain't the expert in these matters. Novices replace 'export' with 'setenv' if they are on csh instead of bash, right? Anyway, thanks for all the replies - now to start reading that 'porter's handbook'... Steve