nonsupport of --without-local-prefix

[Todd Vierling]

On Sun, 13 Sep 1998, Jeffrey A Law wrote:

:   > Why is this a `bug' and why is it so difficult to convince you that some
:   > users WANT to keep /usr/local/include out of the include search path?
            ^^^^
: 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.

Why is that?  Such support is minimally trivial, and even existed in egcs
for a while.

WE WANT THE FEATURE, isn't that enough?  Like, this is just a single #ifdef
we're arguing over!

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