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Re: Suggestion for --with-local-prefix configure option

On Mar 16, 1999, David Mazieres <dm@reeducation-labor.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:

> I've seen sites where for example, someone installed one version of
> gcc in /usr/local and one in /usr/local/gcc-2.8.1, without specifying
> a local prefix.  
[snip]
> /usr/local/gcc-2.8.1/c++ ended up getting the wrong g++ include files.

Wouldn't it search the local prefix only *after* its own prefix?

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