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Date:      Fri, 25 May 2001 23:09:46 +0300
From:      Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg>
To:        ports@freebsd.org
Cc:        Brent Verner <brent@rcfile.org>, FUJISHIMA Satsuki <sf@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: gcc (cpp) include search path problem
Message-ID:  <20010525230946.H18002@ringworld.oblivion.bg>
In-Reply-To: <20010525150404.A35371@shade.nectar.com>; from n@nectar.com on Fri, May 25, 2001 at 03:04:04PM -0500
References:  <20010524055537.A8563@rcfile.org> <20010525225642.D18002@ringworld.oblivion.bg> <20010525150404.A35371@shade.nectar.com>

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On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 03:04:04PM -0500, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote:
> [This is most likely a ports issue, so kicked to -ports]
> 
> On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 10:56:42PM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote:
> > On second thoughts, you might have a problem if you are trying to
> > install the wget port in a location other than /usr/local.
> > If you change PREFIX, then the -I{PREFIX}/include directive would
> > point to the location you want to install wget at, not at /usr/local.
> > In that case, the proper course of action would be to first install
> > the devel/gettext port into the same location (using the same value
> > of PREFIX); then, its include files would be in ${PREFIX}/include,
> > its libraries would be in ${PREFIX}/lib, and wget would build just fine.
> 
> No, this  is not  really correct.   When ports  are looking  for other
> installed  ports,  they  should  use  ${LOCALBASE}  or  ${X11BASE}  as
> appropriate,  not ${PREFIX}.   In other  words, the  wget port  should
> probably  specify  -I${LOCALBASE}/include  instead of/in  addition  to
> -I${PREFIX}/include.

Yes, that, too.  I've suggested this in discussion of new ports, too.

CC'd to the ftp/wget port maintainer :)

G'luck,
Peter

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