[asterisk-dev] autoconf issues for FreeBSD

[Dinesh Nair]

On 10/05/06 06:45 Russell Bryant said the following:
> ----- Luigi Rizzo <rizzo at icir.org> wrote:
> 
>>I am pretty sure that the code below (which was my patch at the time)
>>is NOT a proper fix - i would expect autoconf to deal with platform
>>issues without having us deal with them on each and every port.
> 
> 
> It really does seem odd that /usr/local/ would be the default prefix
> where things are installed on FreeBSD, yet it is not one of the default
> paths that the compiler and linker on the same system would look.  If
> that were the case, none of this would be a problem.

FreeBSD has a policy of separating what's part of the base system which 
sits in /usr/bin, /usr/sbin, /usr/lib etc and what comes in from ports 
which goes into /usr/local/{bin,sbin,lib,etc}. while this may seem 
confusing to non-FreeBSD users, it has become second nature to FreeBSD users.

as Asterisk is included in the FreeBSD ports system, having autoconf do 
this would greatly ease porting work.

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