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Re: GCC 2.95 does not look in /usr/local/include
- To: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
- Subject: Re: GCC 2.95 does not look in /usr/local/include
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 11:26:40 -0600
- cc: hjl at lucon dot org, schwab at suse dot de, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <19990727092239Z.mitchell@codesourcery.com>you write:
> If that's true, then that's what we need a patch to ensure. I don't
> know if that's true. That's not what your patch does.
Right. And I'm not even convinced we want a patch which tweaks the value
of local prefix when one uses some special magic value of prefix. That
kind of stuff is generally bad.
> The default prefix should stay /usr/local, even on Linux. That makes
> GCC consistent across platforms, and allows people to build compilers
> without accidentally wiping out the default versions that shipped with
> their systems.
Precisely.
> I bet we already had this debate before; let's not go there again.
Yes. A couple years ago. I see no need to rehash it since just about
everyone but HJ came to the agreement that his patch was a horrible step
backwards.
jeff