Re: /usr/local/{include,lib} on Cygwin

Peter,

On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 05:35:16PM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Our build system is set up to automatically include -I/usr/local/include
> and -L/usr/local/lib on the compile and link command lines on Cygwin.
> Now I see a lot of users where this issues a warning message that this
> directory doesn't exist. This may confuse new users. Also, shouldn't gcc
> be searching these directories automatically?

I'm not a gcc expert, but from empirical evidence I was able to determine
that Cygwin gcc seems to automatically search /usr/local/include and
/usr/local/lib during compilation and linking, respectively. Hence, it
seems that the above options are redundant.

> Can someone comment whether
> it would be better to remove these explicit options?

If removing redundancy is better, then I guess so. Nevertheless, I just
removed them from src/Makefile.global and src/backend/Makefile, did a
make clean, make and a fairly recent CVS source tree built without errors.

Jason

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