Re: Check lib on path

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Mon, 10 Aug 2009, Andrew W. Nosenko wrote:
>    AC_CANONICAL_HOST
>
>    # Workaround OS related problems in the default search path:
>    #   o  FreeBSD bug: GCC on FreeBSD doesn't search
>    #      /usr/local/include and /usr/local/lib directories.
>    #   o  MacOS X/Darwin problem: GCC on Darwin doesn't search
>    #      /opt/local/include and /opt/local/lib directories.
>    #
>    case "$host_os" in
>    freebsd*)
>        CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS -I/usr/local/include"
>        LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -L/usr/local/lib"

I hate seeing this sort of stuff hard-coded in configure scripts 
because it is just a wild ass guess and it is is incredibly difficult 
for the user to disable.  This sort of code has forced me to use an 
editor on the configure script in order to get it to work at all.

Bob
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