On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 13:11 -0500, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Tue, 13 May 2008, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > > > /usr/include (and /usr/lib) + /usr/local/include (and /usr/local/lib) > > are special to GCC, they are on the system-default (include, library) > > search paths, and are treated differently than other directories by GCC > > More often than not, the formally installed GCC ignores > /usr/local/include. For example, the GCC that comes with OS-X Leopard > does not look there. The GCC that comes with FreeBSD 7.0 does not > look there. On the other hand, the 'cc' that came with SunOS 4.1.3 > does check /usr/local/include by default, so the GCC install for that > target did check /usr/local/include by default so that it would match > the system compiler. It should not be assumed that if the compiler is > GCC that it will pay any attention to /usr/local/include. Vendor supplied "cc"s (traditionally closed source), traditionally don't look into /usr/local/include. FSF-GCC's do, because they treat /usr/local/{lib/include} as the directories to put files into which are supposed to replace vendor supplied files. That said, the behavior you describe for OS-X's cc doesn't surprise me, but I can't find FreeBSD's behavior helpful. Ralf _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf