On Monday 03 January 2005 02:39, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Sunday 02 January 2005 12:43 pm, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > If vim is built with USE="blah", and the blah library is present in > > /usr/local, vim will link against the /usr/local version. This is > > causing problems for at least one user. On the other hand, I'm > > thinking that this behaviour is probably desirable, in that it allows > > users to link against non-portage-installed apps if the user so > > desires. > > i dont think packages should insert -L<standard search path> ... the > compiler and friends should handle that step ... > > we should never prevent packages from being able to utilize /usr/local > as the user suggests though ... if someone installs a package > themselves into /usr/local rather than emerging it, portage shouldnt > try to ignore it -mike
The problem is mainly being caused by ?erronous? configure scripts that look in /usr/local first, before looking at /usr. This because the package get's build often in /usr/local by local administrators. In gentoo, the "best" thing to do is to make an ebuild and just install all crap in /usr, but gentoo is not the average binary distro. Paul -- Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net
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