Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] autoconf patches to 0.8.16

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Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 02:28:39 -0600
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 12:19:43AM -0800, Guy Harris wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 02:13:11AM -0600, ethereal-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > I just looked at configure and if --prefix is not specified, the
> > default is /usr/local. I know that /usr/local/lib is not checked in
> > the new PCAP and ZLIB macros. How about we force /usr/local/include
> > and /usr/local/lib *only* if $prefix = "/usr/local"?
> 
> Or should it force "${prefix}/include" and "${prefix}/lib" regardless of
> the setting of "${prefix}"?  Under "Setting Site Defaults", the
> autoconfig documentation says:
> 
> 	Setting Site Defaults
> 	=====================
> 
> [autoconf doc deleted ...]
> 
> so that if some site decides that it will use "/usr/extra" rather than
> "/usr/local", for example, and sets up such a configure script,
> "configure" for Ethereal will not only arrange that Ethereal will be
> installed under "/usr/local", it'll also arrange that it look under
> "/usr/local" for various libraries that might not come with the OS.

I suppose. How about we go back to the original unless others chime in
for the above? Or, I could just do it (even if we do the above, we'd
still maintain a local patch to remove it because we don't have a
"/usr/local" equivalent here).

-- 
albert chin (china@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)