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Re: /usr/local/include before /usr/include?
- To: dstarner98 at aasaa dot ofe dot org
- Subject: Re: /usr/local/include before /usr/include?
- From: Brian Ford <ford at vss dot fsi dot com>
- Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 13:23:47 -0600 (CST)
- cc: David dot Young at vviuh221 dot vvi dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, David Starner wrote:
> Most UNIX's have /usr/local/bin ahead of /usr/bin in the default path.
> That seems to disagree with your interpreation. How is a system
> adminstrator supposed to override a system include without messing
> with /usr/include's, then?
>
Not any I've run into. In fact, most UNIX's, bar Linux, don't even have a
/usr/local/include to begin with.
> If I were you, I'd put the includes in /usr/local/include/Mesa/GL
> or some other place where they weren't default. That would solve
> the problem, without global changes.
>
Yes. But when you install a supplemental package in its default place,
you don't expect for it to mess up a previously installed vendor
package. How would you feel if when you installed gcc in /usr/local that
it wiped out your vendor compiler or drastically changed the way it
worked?
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Brian Ford
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FlightSafety International
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