From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Nov 11 14:58:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from misha.cisco.com (misha.cisco.com [171.69.206.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DA7514EAD for ; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 14:58:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mi@misha.cisco.com) Received: (from mi@localhost) by misha.cisco.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id RAA03811; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 17:57:54 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mi) Message-Id: <199911112257.RAA03811@misha.cisco.com> Subject: Re: ldconfig finding libraries, but ld is not. In-Reply-To: <14379.17630.340446.163663@guru.phone.net> from Mike Meyer at "Nov 11, 1999 02:36:14 pm" To: Mike Meyer Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 17:57:54 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: mi@aldan.algebra.com From: Mikhail Teterin X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL60 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike Meyer once wrote: > The bottom line is that taking the name people have standardized on > for installing *local* packages [/usr/local -mi] and installing > system-provided packages there is a bad thing(TM). The FreeBSD's point of view is, that the "system-provided packages", are the ones that are already under the /usr itself. That includes monsters like bind, amd, sendmail, perl, cc, uucp, etc. (Whether they should all be always included is a different story.) What you install using the pkg_add or build/install through the ports, ARE the *local* packages you refer to. The ports are just there to aid you. However, I believe the problem of the person starting this thread, was that the /usr/local/lib is in the cc/ld's default search path. The person demanded it be put there or he switched to Linux. Well, since /usr/local is not part of the OS, putting /usr/local/lib onto cc/ld's list is wrong, IMHO. Next, they'll want /usr/local/include on the cpp's list! And we can't allow that :-) -mi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message