Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] autoconf patches to 0.8.16

[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 02:02:00AM -0600, ethereal-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From the original email:
> >   3. Remove hard-coding /usr/local/include and /usr/local/lib. This
> >      is gross.
> 
> :)
> 
> --with-pcap --prefix=/usr/local should check /usr/local/include.
> /usr/local/lib won't be checked after my patch.

As far as I'm concerned, requiring "--prefix=/usr/local" is vastly more
gross than hard-coding "/usr/local/{include,lib}"
("/usr/local/{include,lib}" is a rather common convention on
UNIX-flavored OSes); I would consider requiring "--prefix=/usr/local" in
the next release to be an unacceptable regression.

If there's no other way to ensure that it'll find packages in
"/usr/local", put the hard-coding back, gross though you think it may
be.