OSSH 2.5.2p2: Why is /usr/local/ put into the include & lib paths under Solaris?

[Damien Miller]

On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Carson Gaspar wrote:

> I'd like to know why /usr/local/(include|lib) is added to the
> (include|library) path. I'd _especially_ like to know why it's added before
> user-specified library directories such as OpenSSL. If I specify
> --with-openssl=/foo/openssl, I want to actually _use_ the version of
> openssl in /foo/openssl, not some version that may have been installed in
> /usr/local. This really makes no sense at all, since Solaris doesn't even
> _have_ /usr/local by default.
>
> Attached is a patch that gets rid of this behaviour, at least for solaris.
> I suspect it's bogus on just about every platform, but I'm sure it is on
> Solaris.

Many people and packages (like most of sunfreeware) put stuff in
/usr/local.

-d

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