From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jean-Pierre Radley To: EGCS Developers Subject: Re: local_prefix a mistake Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 11:43:00 -0000 Message-id: <19971215144318.05210@jpr.com> References: <199712151137.LAA26890@gertrude.robots.ox.ac.uk> X-SW-Source: 1997-12/msg00850.html 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. -- Jean-Pierre Radley jpr@jpr.com XC/XT Custodian Sysop, CompuServe SCOForum