On Fri, 31 Oct 2008, Nate Eldredge wrote:
On Fri, 31 Oct 2008, Steve Franks wrote:
Let's backup. What's the 'right' way to get a bloody linux program
that expects all it's headers in /usr/include to compile on freebsd
where all the headers are in /usr/local/include? That's all I'm
really asking. Specifically, it's looking for libusb & libftdi. If I
just type gmake, it can't find it, but if I manually edit the
Makefiles to add -I/usr/local/include, it can. Obviously, manually
editing the makefiles is *not* the right way to fix it (plus it's
driving me crazy).
C_INCLUDE_PATH=$C_INCLUDE_PATH:/usr/local/include
LIBRARY_PATH=$LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/lib
export C_INCLUDE_PATH LIBRARY_PATH
./configure
gmake
Adjust as appropriate if using csh.
Personally, I set those environment variables in my .profile.
By the way, I think you're being a little unfair to blame this on Linux
programs or programmers. Normally it's the user's responsibility to ensure
that their compiler searches for include files, etc, in the appropriate
place. Many Linux distributions put everything in /usr/include, which is
searched by default. FreeBSD puts stuff from ports in /usr/local/include
which isn't searched by default. I find that behavior inconvenient, which is
why I set those environment variables, so I don't have to think about it.
I don't really care who's to blame (I'd guess I'd blame both
the Linux distros and the Linux application developers), but
the move to put everything in /usr/include and /usr/lib annoys
the heck out of me. It blurs the line between the base OS and
installed 3rd party software. Perhaps that's because Linux is
really just a kernel, and to the distributors - most, if not
all, of their software is 3rd-party.
It's really nice to be able to install 3rd-party software
so that it doesn't affect the base OS. On FreeBSD, it's
easy enough just to 'rm -rf /usr/local' and start fresh
without having to worry about screwing up the base OS.
--
DE
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