From owner-freebsd-arch Wed May 29 4:31: 2 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mail.inka.de (quechua.inka.de [212.227.14.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 690CF37B408 for ; Wed, 29 May 2002 04:30:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kemoauc.mips.inka.de (uucp@) by mail.inka.de with local-bsmtp id 17D1fM-00012B-00; Wed, 29 May 2002 13:30:56 +0200 Received: from kemoauc.mips.inka.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kemoauc.mips.inka.de (8.12.3/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g4TB4xij009815 for ; Wed, 29 May 2002 13:04:59 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mailnull@localhost.mips.inka.de) Received: (from mailnull@localhost) by kemoauc.mips.inka.de (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g4TB4xx2009814 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Wed, 29 May 2002 13:04:59 +0200 (CEST) From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: Re: Why don't we search /usr/local/lib and /usr/local/include by default? Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 11:04:58 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <20020529093009.C31668@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20020529122327.C82424@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20020528.221453.83474290.imp@village.org> <20020529140813.P82424@wantadilla.lemis.com> Originator: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > > We shouldn't search /usr/local by default because PREFIX can be set > > to anything. > > It doesn't do any harm even in that case. Yes, it does. It will just about ensure that building with a LOCALBASE other than /usr/local will break, because if /usr/local is searched automatically most port maintainers will forget to specify -I${LOCALBASE}/include and -L${LOCALBASE}/lib. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message