New subject: [Success] XEmacs 21.0 "Benadir", sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1

Tuesday, 21 July 1998


        Vin Shelton <acs(a)alumni.princeton.edu&gt; writes:

...
 Didier wrote:
 >	What ?! Could you explain why ?

 I've always advocated a model where configure only does what I tell it to.   
	Take a random package using a `configure' script. Build it and
`make install' it. Well, without /telling/ it anything special, it will go in
/usr/local. Therefore, I find it sensible for a configure-enabled package to
search /usr/local 


...
 Don't search /usr/local unless I ask.  Don't search /usr/dt
unless I ask. 
	Then, 100.1% of users will end-up with a full screen configure line.


...
 Otherwise, how do I tell configure NOT to search /usr/local.  Say,
for 
 instance, someone has installed a broken libfoo.a in /usr/local and I don't 
 want to pick it up. 
	By giving it a --site-includes, a --site-libraries, or more generally, 
a --site-prefixes option, which will take precedence over everything else.


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Re: [Success] XEmacs 21.0 "Benadir", sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1