Ethereal-users: [ethereal-users] Re: [ethereal-dev] Adding autoconf options

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From: nazard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 02:21:07 -0400 (EDT)
On 12 Apr, Guy Harris wrote:
>> CPPFLAGS="-I/opt/something/include" LDFLAGS="-L/opt/something/lib" ./configure
> 
> I.e., put that in the README, as a hint (as it's apparently not obvious
> to all that directories other than "/usr" and "/usr/local" should be
> handled that way)?

Most people are already used to overriding the default options. Jost
was just using the wrong one to also handle autoconf header tests.

Certainly an entry in the README or INSTALL file might help. An example
is shown in INSTALL.configure but it's buried an not explicit.

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Doug Nazar
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