openssh unix dev - Mar 2001 - OSSH 2.5.2p2: Why is /usr/local/ put into the include & lib paths under Solaris?

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.

-- 
Carson
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> I'd like to know why /usr/local/(include|lib) is added to the 
> (include|library) path.
Because most opensource add-ons install into /usr/local by default and the
native compiler chain doesn't know about stuff in there and has to be
told.

> I'd _especially_ like to know why it's added before user-specified
> library directories such as OpenSSL.
It's not - looking at your patch:
 -       CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS -I/usr/local/include"
 -       LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -L/usr/local/lib -R/usr/local/lib" 

They're clearly added _after_ any user defined flags.

> This really makes no sense at all, since Solaris doesn't even _have_
> /usr/local by default.
No platform should ship with /usr/local, that's the point - it's for
local
customizations and non-official, "after-market" stuff that you
install.
The point is that if you install, eg, openssl on the system, it will drop
its crap in /usr/local/.  Then when you configure/make openssh, it will
find the system-wide openssl in /usr/local without your having to tell it
manually.


 -Jason

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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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--On Wednesday, March 28, 2001 1:47 PM +1000 Damien Miller 
<djm at mindrot.org> wrote:
> Many people and packages (like most of sunfreeware) put stuff in
> /usr/local.
So?

If you want to look in /usr/local for OpenSSL as one of the default 
locations if --with-openssl is not specified, great. Please do. Why does 
OpenSSH _blindly_ add it to -I/-L/-R? This makes no sense, and is broken.

-- 
Carson