[Xastir-dev] --with-bdb-include=/sw/include/db4

[Dan Brown]

On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, Tom Russo wrote:
>
> Configure should not be expected to guess every non-standard location of
> every possible package a developer makes the code depend on.  It should
> provide the user with the means to specify where to find things that can't be
> found with a simple set of probes.  For the most part we have that.  What
> there should be is some system specific user notes in READMEs, telling new
> users that if they're installing libraries from package-management system
> Fooble, they will likely need additional configure options to locate their
> installed libraries, and tell them what those options are.

This sounds like a fine solution.

Dan.


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