From owner-freebsd-arch Wed May 29 14:19:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 152AC37B406 for ; Wed, 29 May 2002 14:19:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g4TLJAY32162 for ; Wed, 29 May 2002 15:19:11 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@village.org) Received: from localhost (warner@rover2.village.org [10.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g4TLJ9G40382 for ; Wed, 29 May 2002 15:19:10 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@village.org) Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 15:18:44 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <20020529.151844.49472446.imp@village.org> To: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Why don't we search /usr/local/lib and /usr/local/include by default? From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <20020529125401.C2156@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <20020528.221453.83474290.imp@village.org> <20020529140813.P82424@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20020529125401.C2156@dragon.nuxi.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 In message: <20020529125401.C2156@dragon.nuxi.com> "David O'Brien" writes: : 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. Also, "If everybody were jumping off of cliffs, would you do it too?" Add /usr/local/* by default is just a really dumb idea. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message