local_prefix a mistake

Jean-Pierre Radley jpr@jpr.com
Mon Dec 15 11:43:00 GMT 1997


H.J. Lu telecommunicated (on 15Dec):
| > 
| > 
| > Jean-Pierre Radley writes:
| > >I found my problem. Once upon a time, I had installed ncurses here, but
| > >it never really worked.   Still left behind, though, were some files in
| > >/usr/local/include: curses.h, term.h, termcap.h, and a few others.
| > 
| > It's a problem with local_prefix, which ought to be removed.  It's
| > undeniably useful, but the user should explicitly specify any -I flags
| > other than for /usr/include.
| > 
| 
| Too many things may assume it. Are you going to fix the Makefile
| for them?

Nothing in mutt's Makefile refers to /usr/local/include.
My understanding is that gcc looks in that directory by default.

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