From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ludovic.courtes@laas.fr (Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?=) Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.bugs Subject: Re: Does not find header files or libraries under /usr/local Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 09:12:02 +0200 Organization: LAAS-CNRS Message-ID: <87pshu4qil.fsf@laas.fr> References: <20060308203902.GA3841@localhost.localdomain> <87bqtjkr62.fsf@zagadka.de> <20060527231702.GA2546@localhost.localdomain> <873bevkpwr.fsf@zagadka.de> <20060528005257.GB2546@localhost.localdomain> <878xoja7d1.fsf@laas.fr> <87r72bm159.fsf@zip.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1149059566 27138 80.91.229.2 (31 May 2006 07:12:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 07:12:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-guile@gnu.org, Matt Kraai Original-X-From: bug-guile-bounces+guile-bugs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 31 09:12:44 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-bugs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FlKsZ-0000K7-LU for guile-bugs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 31 May 2006 09:12:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FlKsY-0000Nv-Vu for guile-bugs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 31 May 2006 03:12:31 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FlKsU-0000Nl-4K for bug-guile@gnu.org; Wed, 31 May 2006 03:12:26 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FlKsS-0000NZ-4p for bug-guile@gnu.org; Wed, 31 May 2006 03:12:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FlKsR-0000NW-VA for bug-guile@gnu.org; Wed, 31 May 2006 03:12:24 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.93.0.15] (helo=laas.laas.fr) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1FlKyP-0007T3-Nf for bug-guile@gnu.org; Wed, 31 May 2006 03:18:34 -0400 Original-Received: by laas.laas.fr (8.13.6/8.13.4) with SMTP id k4V7CBQl006362; Wed, 31 May 2006 09:12:17 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: Kevin Ryde X-URL: http://www.laas.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 12 Prairial an 214 de la =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=E9volution?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0xEB1F5364 X-PGP-Key: http://www.laas.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 821D 815D 902A 7EAB 5CEE D120 7FBA 3D4F EB1F 5364 X-OS: powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu Mail-Followup-To: Kevin Ryde , bug-guile@gnu.org, Matt Kraai In-Reply-To: <87r72bm159.fsf@zip.com.au> (Kevin Ryde's message of "Wed, 31 May 2006 11:30:26 +1000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: 0.496 () MAILTO_TO_SPAM_ADDR X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang at CNRS-LAAS X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by laas.laas.fr id k4V7CBQl006362 X-BeenThere: bug-guile@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GUILE, GNU's Ubiquitous Extension Language" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-guile-bounces+guile-bugs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-guile-bounces+guile-bugs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.bugs:3265 Archived-At: Hi, Kevin Ryde writes: > ludovic.courtes@laas.fr (Ludovic Court=E8s) writes: >> >> Often, `configure' scripts provide a `--with-PACKAGE-prefix' option (o= r >> `--with-PACKAGE-includes', or `--with-PACKAGE-libs') so that one can >> specify where to look fo a particular package. > > Though that's contrary to the gnu standards. Getting a path from > somewhere is fine, even good, but --with is not the place for it. Interesting, I'd have thought this was the "Right Way". ;-) From a user viewpoint, I find it very convenient, and sometimes even indispensable (e.g., when one has several versions of a tool available and wants to build against a specific version). Thanks, Ludovic. _______________________________________________ Bug-guile mailing list Bug-guile@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-guile