Re: linking COLAMD, CCOLAMD, ZLIB

[John W. Eaton]

On 22-Feb-2006, Dmitri A. Sergatskov wrote:

| The relocation of pcre into its private subdirectory broke quite a few
| programs,
| there were some public outcry, bug reports etc., and as a result
| RedHat moved it back into /usr/include in FC4.
| So I am not sure it worth to spent much effort solving this problem.

I don't think it would be much effort, and will likely be needed for
other headers.  For example, debian currently dumps a lot of junk
directly into /usr/include (look at all the H5 headers for hdf5) and I
think that is a bug that other systems might not wish to duplicate.

jwe



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