At 12:05 AM +0200 2002/10/16, Lubomir Sedlacik wrote:

>  linker doesn't stick it automatically, you need to add them to Makefile.
>  either with CFLAGS and LDFLAGS (-I/usr/pkg/include and -L/usr/pkg/lib
>  respectively or even -R/usr/pkg/lib to hardcode this search path into
>  the binaries as pkgsrc does.

	As I thought.

>                                see ld(1) and gcc(1) manpages for more
>  details) to the environment on command line for make or configure
>  commands or by patching Makefile or configure directly.

	Right, but this means that NetBSD has effectively closed itself 
to anything that is not inherently NetBSD-aware, or for which there 
is not a NetBSD package/port.  At least, there's an extra step that's 
involved here that people will tend to stumble over.

>                                                           that's exactly
>  what pkgsrc mechanism does for you.  if you don't understand why is this
>  good for you then you probably don't need that and just set LOCALBASE to
>  /usr/local which is probably more comfortable for you.

	I do understand the reasons why someone might want to do this. 
Helping to prevent collisions between package/port software and truly 
locally-built software is a good thing.

	My primary question has to do more with why this step wasn't 
followed by the natural next step, namely insuring that 
/usr/pkg/include is always included in the normal patch searched by 
the compiler for header files, and that /usr/pkg/lib is always 
included in the normal search path for the linker & loader?  After 
all, the standard PATH definition for users includes /usr/pkg/bin, so 
why not make the other modifications as well?


	Anyway, thanks to your advice, I will be resetting LOCALBASE to 
/usr/local, and re-installing everything I've built so far out of 
/usr/pkgsrc.

	I know that I won't be installing a whole lot of things on this 
machine, and I'll only be manually installing things for which no 
current package/port exists, so I am not concerned about collisions.

-- 
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be>

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