Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 16:39:19 -0700 From: John E Hein <jhein@timing.com> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> Subject: Re: Finding libraries to link with and autoconf resources? Message-ID: <17871.43303.763189.645799@gromit.timing.com> In-Reply-To: <17871.34327.776800.460172@bhuda.mired.org> References: <45CE8BEC.7050404@u.washington.edu> <17870.42419.779434.735451@bhuda.mired.org> <2D763A31-2BAF-4AD5-A256-273CD37EB7A5@u.washington.edu> <17871.29428.183244.232189@gromit.timing.com> <17871.34327.776800.460172@bhuda.mired.org>
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Mike Meyer wrote at 16:09 -0500 on Feb 11, 2007:
> In <17871.29428.183244.232189@gromit.timing.com>, John E Hein <jhein@timing.com> typed:
> > In your freebsd port, there is a common idiom that looks like this
> > in the Makefile:
> >
> > LDFLAGS+=-L/your/path/to/png/lib
> > CPPFLAGS+=-I/your/path/to/png/include
> > CONFIGURE_ENV=CPPFLAGS="${CPPFLAGS} LDFLAGS="${LDFLAGS}
>
> The port idiom is correctly more like:
>
> LDFLAGS+=-L$(LOCALBASE)/subdir/to/png/lib
> CPPFLAGS+=-I$(LOCALBASE)/subdir/to/png/include
>
> to get LOCALBASE correct.
Not if you don't have it in LOCALBASE ;) (that's one of the problems I
have with ports - they all assume everything is in LOCALBASE, but I
often want to try stuff that I put elsewhere).
But, yes, most ports do something like that.
> > ports@ is a better place to ask such questions, by the way.
>
> Unless it's really an autoconf question, in which case the right place
> would be an autoconf list.
True enough... or the author of the original software if you really
want them to fix their configure / configure.in
But ports@ or the PH is a good place to ask about working around such
upstream problems and getting it built on FreeBSD.
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