From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 31 18:54:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from akira.lanfear.com (akira.lanfear.com [208.12.10.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18C0114DF5 for ; Sun, 31 Oct 1999 18:54:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from MarcW@Lanfear.com) Received: by akira.lanfear.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.1960.3) id ; Sun, 31 Oct 1999 18:56:35 -0800 Message-ID: <13D5F9EDFD72D211BC3100105A1C2233054933@akira.lanfear.com> From: Marc Wandschneider To: 'Alfred Perlstein' , Marc Wandschneider Cc: 'Jonathan Chen' , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: (use the ports luke!) RE: your mail Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 18:56:30 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.1960.3) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > -----Original Message----- > From: Alfred Perlstein [mailto:bright@wintelcom.net] > Subject: (use the ports luke!) RE: your mail > > > Why? Why do you insist on compiling it yourself and then ask > questions > on how to build it when: Because, eventually, i'm going to put a library in /usr/local/lib that's going to cause me to run into this problem again. The question asked as a general one: where do i tell the system about libs and headers in /usr/local/XXX. i can't believe that this is that obscure that only build masters would know about such things ... marc. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message