Re: default searchpaths on *BSD machines?

[Miles Bader]

Bob Friesenhahn <address@hidden> writes:
>> 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)
>
> The approach I use is to create a /usr/local/share/config.site file
> with this content:

That's something a (knowledgeable) installer can do to make installing
packages easier on his system, but I'm mainly thinking about what a
_packager_ can do to make things easier for installers that haven't
done such a thing...

Thanks,

-miles

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