From owner-freebsd-arch Wed May 29 12:54:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.92.13.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4433F37B404; Wed, 29 May 2002 12:54:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.3/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g4TJs5Jn002416; Wed, 29 May 2002 12:54:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g4TJs1TD002411; Wed, 29 May 2002 12:54:01 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 12:54:01 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" Cc: "M. Warner Losh" , peter@wemm.org, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Why don't we search /usr/local/lib and /usr/local/include by default? Message-ID: <20020529125401.C2156@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org References: <20020529093009.C31668@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20020529012544.14816380A@overcee.wemm.org> <20020529122327.C82424@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20020528.221453.83474290.imp@village.org> <20020529140813.P82424@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020529140813.P82424@wantadilla.lemis.com>; from grog@FreeBSD.org on Wed, May 29, 2002 at 02:08:13PM +0930 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 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 On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 02:08:13PM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Tuesday, 28 May 2002 at 22:14:53 -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > > In message: <20020529122327.C82424@wantadilla.lemis.com> > > "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" writes: > >> I'm complaining about the implementation. Since the Ports Collection > >> installs by default in /usr/local, it seems reasonable to at least put > >> these directories at the end of the search paths for header files and > >> libraries. > > > > It is working as designed. /usr/local/* isn't searched by default, > > and never have been in BSD. > > "We do it this way because our grandfathers did it this way"? I speak English because my grandfather did. A good enough reason for me. > > Just because Linux is lame > > I think that's a rather blanked statement. Doesn't make it any less true. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message