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Date:      Wed, 29 May 2002 12:56:15 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
To:        Martin Pool <mbp@samba.org>
Cc:        "M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org>, grog@freebsd.org, 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:  <20020529125615.D2156@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020529062728.GJ25763@samba.org>; from mbp@samba.org on Wed, May 29, 2002 at 04:27:31PM %2B1000
References:  <20020529122327.C82424@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20020528.221453.83474290.imp@village.org> <20020529140813.P82424@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20020528.233729.115542684.imp@village.org> <20020529062728.GJ25763@samba.org>

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On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 04:27:31PM +1000, Martin Pool wrote:
> Given the arguments advanced, I'm curious whether you think that
> packages which are not specific to BSD ought to detect BSD and add
> those paths, or whether they ought to break by default and require the
> user to specifically nominate /usr/local/?

*sigh*  All the word is NOT GCC on 386 Linux!

No, packages should add those paths.  The SUNpro compiler on Solaris does
not check /usr/local by default either.  Nor does the native compilers on
Tru64 and HP-UX (IIRC).

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