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- From: "David Herron" <david@twg.com>
- Subject: Re: TCL3.0 installation lack
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.235704.15177@twg.com>
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 23:57:04 GMT
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- > |>
- > |> /usr/local/include seems like a good default, however, espcially since the
- > |> GNU compiler will look there by default.
-
- > Your suggestion for a default is admirable, however not everyone utilizes
- > the GNU compiler.
-
- Sigh.. Sigh.. Sigh.. Don't anybody ever read man pages anymore?? ;-)
-
- Every C compiler I've used had a way to add directories to the list
- of `include' directories. Usually this (on Unix anyway) is with -Ipath.
- So someone compiling with TCL stuff can do -I/usr/local/include ..
-
- > I would have to agree with Larry Virden, use $(TCL_INCLUDE)
- > and set it to NULL toward the beginning of the makefile. This will allow
- > each site to place these files in locations which are well suited to them.
-
- No. Default TCL_INCLUDE to /usr/local/include since that will be the
- common choice. It can still be overridden easily.
-
- Speaking of which ...
-
- The bin directory is set to /usr/local .. Almost every site I'm familiar
- with uses /usr/local/bin and the only one I know which doesn't was afflicted
- with a mind-virus (meme) from Berkeley which arrived along with 4.2BSD.
- As I recall something in the distribution suggested installing new commands
- in /usr/local. But as the list of new commands grew, some needed `lib'
- or `include' files and having commands and directories mixed at the same
- place in the directory tree became messy.
-
- Unfortunately, at that site it was too firmly ingrained before we noticed
- it being a problem and we weren't able to change it.
-
-
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