I'm a beginner so be nice to me

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Sep 3, 2010, at 13:24, Brandon S Allbery KF8NH wrote:

> configure scripts have an annoying habit of looking for libraries and
> include files under /usr/local no matter what you tell them to do.

Yes, but the bigger problem is that gcc will look for headers and libraries there, regardless what the configure script or Makefile says.


> Additionally, if /usr/local/bin is in $PATH and any *-config scripts are
> installed there, configure will ask them for path information.  (That has
> largely been superseded by pkg-config, but then you have configure adding
> /usr/local to the search path for *that*.)

In MacPorts, /usr/local/bin is not in PATH, unless the user has specifically put it there by editing binpath in macports.conf, but the user should not do that.