I notice that FreeBSD (etc) put a lot of optionally installed
("/usr/ports") software in /usr/local, but the system compiler's
search-paths on these machines by default _don't_ include
/usr/local...
So my autoconf'd project doesn't find various libraries, even if the
user thought he had installed them.
What's the usual way to handle this issue...?
1) Add /usr/local to paths by default
(e.g. CPPFLAGS+=-I/usr/local/include, LDFLAGS+=-L/usr/local/lib)
2) Add $(prefix) to paths by default
3) Somehow detect such a system, and do one of the above only for
them...
4) Have an option to set this (--with-extra-seach-root= ... argh ugly
name but), but require the user give the option explicitly
5) Insist the user specify CPPFLAGS, LDFLAGS, etc, on the configure
command-line
6) ...?
[Do FreeBSD Makefiles set things up to search /usr/local by default?]
Thanks,
-Miles
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