Re: [HACKERS] Re: Open portability issues

On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> >
> > Open portability issues:
> >
> > /usr/local should be searched for lib and include for all ports if present
> > (currently not working, I have libreadline there)
>
> I actually us a flag to configure:
>
>         --with-includes="/u/readline" \
>         --with-libraries="/u/readline /usr/contrib/lib"
>
> Should we be poking around in /usr/local by default?  Comments?

    No...unless someone can point me at a package that explicitly goes
out and looking /usr/local.  I've yet to have a problem with any package
I've installed not being able to find libraries and include files that are
installed in /usr/local ... if someone is having a problem, they should be
directed to look at *fixing* their system in the first place, as they are
definitely going to have more problems then just with PostgreSQL...


Marc G. Fournier
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy@hub.org           secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org