Vin Shelton <acs(a)alumni.princeton.edu> writes in xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org:
I've always advocated a model where configure only does what I
tell
it to. Don't search /usr/local unless I ask. Don't search /usr/dt
unless I ask.
Amen.
Otherwise, how do I tell configure NOT to search /usr/local.
Right now you can't (in the case of /usr/dt). You have to put
directories ahead of it to cover it up.
Say, for instance, someone has installed a broken libfoo.a in
/usr/local and I don't want to pick it up.
Or if there's a broken installation of X11 in /usr/local and you want
to use /usr/openwin, or whatever.