Re: [Monotone-devel] libraries and headers in /usr/local

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 01:18:54PM +0200, Lapo Luchini wrote:
> Every time I "./configure" monotone on FreeBSD I have to remember using
> CXXFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include" LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib"
> as FreeBSD ports are very strict in only using /usr/local as PREFIX
> and thus needed libraries like boost are found there.
> 
> I have no big problems with this, but I noticed that many configure
> script in others projects search, by default, both in /usr and
> /usr/local without needing explicit indication.
> Could that be done in monotone's configure too, or are there problems
> I can't foresee?

Nope, just that no-one wrote the relevant code.  Patches definitely
accepted.

-- Nathaniel

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