Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 18:25:44 -0700 From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why don't we search /usr/local/lib and /usr/local/include by default? Message-ID: <20020529012544.14816380A@overcee.wemm.org> In-Reply-To: <20020529093009.C31668@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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"Greg 'groggy' Lehey" wrote:
> On Tuesday, 28 May 2002 at 8:42:48 -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> > On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 02:34:44PM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> >> I've just had a question from some friends in the Linux space about
> >> why we install additional libraries in /usr/local/lib and their header
> >> files in /usr/local/include, but gcc by default only searches
> >> /usr/local/libexec and /usr/local/lib for libraries and /usr/include
> >
> > The system GCC searching any part of /usr/local is a bug. It is not
> > [ports] PREFIX clean.
>
> So how would you recommend we solve the issue?
Err, what issue? gcc does not search /usr/local anywhere.
peter@daintree[6:22pm]/tmp-106> ls -l /usr/local/include/jerror.h
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 13936 May 28 16:52 /usr/local/include/jerror.h
peter@daintree[6:22pm]/tmp-107> cc -c foo.c
foo.c:1:20: jerror.h: No such file or directory
peter@daintree[6:22pm]/tmp-108> grep jerror foo.c
#include <jerror.h>
and
eter@daintree[6:23pm]/tmp-113> ls -l /usr/local/lib | grep libxml
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 523838 Apr 17 04:23 libxml.a
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 11 May 21 19:08 libxml.so@ -> libxml.so.5
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 495202 Apr 17 04:23 libxml.so.5*
peter@daintree[6:23pm]/tmp-114> cc -o foo foo.c -lxml
/usr/libexec/elf/ld: cannot find -lxml
Yes, /usr/local/lib is on my ldconfig path.
peter@daintree[6:24pm]/tmp-120> ldconfig -r | head -2
/var/run/ld-elf.so.hints:
search directories: /usr/lib:/usr/lib/compat:/usr/X11R6/lib:/usr/local/lib
This is working exactly as designed. Your email suggests you found a bug
in the implementation of this.. Or are you complaining about the design
itself?
> > (you have typos above about /usr/local/libexec don't you?)
>
> Yes, sorry.
>
> Greg
Cheers,
-Peter
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