arbitrary build can't find libs - right way to do this?

[Kevin Kinsey]

Steve Franks wrote:
> On Nov 20, 2007 4:16 PM, Roland Smith <rsmith at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 03:34:29PM -0700, Steve Franks wrote:
>>> I'm trying to compile a non-port application for the first time ever.
>>> The associated library built and installed just fine - I can see them
>>> right in /usr/local/lib and usr/local/include/libnamefoo.h  However,
>>> when I run ./configure for the application, it clearly can't find the
>>> libs.  So my question is, should I be changing my path, is there a
>>> standard variable I need to export, or what?  Obviously for ports this
>>> just works, so I've never had to do it.  I'm sure there's a standard
>>> way, so I thought I'd get in the habit of doing that right from the
>>> start...

>> The best way would be to write a port makefile and submit it. That way
>> you only have to figure it out once. Especially if the app needs patches
>> to work correctly on FreeBSD. And in case of a free software app, others
>> can use it as well, _and_ help you with bugfixing. :-) For closed source
>> stuff submitting a port would probably be useless.
> 
> I'd love to (submit a port), but how do I make a port if I can't even
> get it to work the first time myself?
>     configure --includedir=/usr/local/include doesn't work;
>     export CPATH =/usr/local/include doesn't work;
>     export CPPFLAGS -l/usr/local/include doesn't work;
>     I've checked the permissions,
>     and I can see the file right there, but configure/gcc can't.  The
> developer swears something must be 'different' about freebsd because
> his gcc finds the same file in /usr/local/include.  Appears his system
> is gentoo...
> 
> Steve

# setenv CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include" 
# setenv LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib"
# configure


Kevin Kinsey
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