[GRASS-user] grass-6.4.0RC5 configure problem

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Fri Nov 6 08:38:29 EST 2009


On Fri, 6 Nov 2009, Glynn Clements wrote:

> You should never specify /usr/lib or /usr/include; the compiler/linker
> will search these directories automatically. Specifying them explicitly
> will usually do nothing, but if it makes a difference (usually with older
> versions of gcc on platforms where it isn't the "official" compiler), it
> will usually make matters worse.

Glynn,

   That has always been the case, and I wondered why the grass configure file
specified each of these directories separately. I figured there must be a
reason for that so I added each one. Never did this before unless the
headers and libraries were in non-standard directories.

Thanks,

Rich


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