Re: nonsupport of --without-local-prefix

[Vin Shelton <acs at alumni dot princeton dot edu>]

On Sun, 13 Sep 1998, Jeffrey A Law wrote:
: local-prefix is and always was supposed to be a pathname, NOT a 
: boolean.  As long as you are trying to convince me that it should
: be a boolean or conditionally a boolean you are not going to find
: a receptive audience.

Todd Vierling wrote:
> Why is that?  Such support is minimally trivial, and even existed in
> egcs for a while.

> WE WANT THE FEATURE, isn't that enough? 

Jeff,
    I really don't understand your recalcitrance in this regard.  It
seems clear that some (small, perhaps) percentage of the egcs users
would like a feature added to configure which makes it possible to
omit /usr/local/include from the include directory search path.  As to
how that feature is implemented, I don't overly care, except I will
say that using the option '--with-local-prefix=/NOWHERE' is
bletcherous and potentially problematic for those of us who work on
large networks with funky NFS mounts.  (You'd be surprised at the
names for directories people invent.)  --without-local-prefix used to
work in the way that we want, so we've latched onto that as a solution 
to our problem; do you have a different suggestion, or do you just
want to pretend that we have no right to complain about this?

Hoping to find a solution,
  vin