[asterisk-dev] Re: autoconf issues for FreeBSD

[Edwin Groothuis]

On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 03:22:24PM +0200, Benny Amorsen wrote:
> >>>>> "DN" == Dinesh Nair <dinesh at alphaque.com> writes:
> 
> DN> FreeBSD has a policy of separating what's part of the base system
> DN> which sits in /usr/bin, /usr/sbin, /usr/lib etc and what comes in
> DN> from ports which goes into /usr/local/{bin,sbin,lib,etc}. while
> DN> this may seem confusing to non-FreeBSD users, it has become second
> DN> nature to FreeBSD users.
> 
> So why doesn't the C compiler in FreeBSD look in /usr/local/ for
> includes and libraries?

See my previous reply to Russ. /usr/local/ is only the prefered,
but not the fixed, prefix for third party installed software via
the FreeBSD ports collection.

Edwin

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