At 12:06 PM +0200 5/5/08, Mel wrote: >On Monday 05 May 2008 10:12:05 Walt Pawley wrote: >> I've been fiddling with compiling nzbget-0.4.0 on a 6.3 system. >> My initial efforts failed the configuration process for not >> finding iconv.h. This, despite /usr/local/include/iconv.h being >> present and supposedly in the include search path if the info >> documentation can be believed. >> >> Just to see if I could learn something, I copied the >> /usr/local/include/iconv.h to /usr/include/ and tried again. >> After this, the configuration process completed and the >> application seemed to "make" and "make install" just fine. >> >> Is there some way to ascertain what the set of default include >> paths actually is? > >Even though cc has a million options, there's none that I know that prints the >system include path (not even in -dumpspecs). However, in practice you can >assume it's /usr/include. > >To make configure scripts believe you have something installed, it's not a >good idea to copy headers. >Look for a --with-iconv=/usr/local option and failing that, change CFLAGS and >LDFLAGS in the environment when configuring.
Admonition understood - I was just experimenting and wanted the file to be in a specific place without any uncertainty about just what various "look over there" options actually do. The reason for such a mind set is that actual behavior of cpp seems to differ from its documentation, to wit: info cpp :: Header Files::Search Path reads: GCC looks in several different places for headers. On a normal Unix system, if you do not instruct it otherwise, it will look for headers requested with `#include <FILE>' in: /usr/local/include LIBDIR/gcc/TARGET/VERSION/include /usr/TARGET/include /usr/include I'm either missing something very fundamental (which I doubt not at all) or this should be a somewhat serious problem. There are 4944 header files in /usr/local/include/ branch on this system that should be accessible by default but, if my experience with nzbget is any guide, do not seem to be. -- Walter M. Pawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wump Research & Company 676 River Bend Road, Roseburg, OR 97470 541-672-8975 _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"