On Sun, 8 Dec 2002 07:59:56 -0600, 
"Curtis L. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> James Turner writes:
> > BTW, I haven't even got as far as linking due to problems with PLIB
> > CVS  versions (Mac gcc keeps moaning about Plib's ul.h, it seems to
> > be  getting included as C file, not a C++ one, and hence function  
> > overloading is not permitted). Haven't taken this up with the plib
> > guys  yet.
> 
> I seem to recall someone saying that anything installed in
> /usr/include on a Mac get's automatically wrapped with something like:
> 
>   extern "C" { }
> 
> This is annoying because plib automatically installs in /usr/lib (even
> though it really shouldn't.) :-)
> 
> The trick is to override the install location at configure time with
> something like:
> 
>   ./configure --prefix=/usr/local

..should'nt this be the normal default place to drop FG etc cvs 
and tarballed code, allowing deb and rpm packagers to put their 
stuff in /usr?  The rpmdb does not know about stuff dropped in 
outside rpm, I suspect deb works the same way.

-- 
..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-)
...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
  Scenarios always come in sets of three: 
  best case, worst case, and just in case.



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