On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 08:37:45PM -0500, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:

> ----- Luigi Rizzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
> That fix probably won't work correctly any longer, since the change to use 
> ASTCFLAGS and ASTLDFLAGS for the build system.
> autoconf itself does nothing to increase platform compatibility; it is a tool 
> that allows a package builder to increase compatibility. The benefits from 
> autoconf are derived entirely from the logic that we put in the configure 
> script, not autoconf itself.
> Once again (I'll agree with Russell here) it makes absolutely no sense for 
> /usr/local to be the standard place for libraries to be installed, but that 
> they are not in the search path for the compiler and linker. All this does is 
> require every package that wants to build on FreeBSD to require special logic 
> to add them to the search path, when the FreeBSD toolchain could easily have 
> these paths embedded into the toolchain by default. How frustrating :-)

Sun does similar things. Standard stuff goes into /usr/bin etc
Optional Sun packages (or some 3rd party stuff) into /opt as a base
Sunfreeware into various areas with config under /etc/sfw binaries
/usr/sfw/bin etc
BSD's system stuff normal, everything else /usr/local


Steve

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