Re: nonsupport of --without-local-prefix

[Joe Buck <jbuck at synopsys dot com>]

>     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.)

Worse, at some installations the response to /NOWHERE might be to attempt
an automount, causing a timeout for each compile.

> 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?

While I sympathize with you, I request that you don't talk to Jeff that
way.  While he may be wrong on this issue, abuse isn't called for.