configuration bug

[Richard B. Kreckel]

Hello Issac,

Have you been named after a conference?
<http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/issac2000/>
:-)

On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Issac Trotts wrote:

> I'm trying to compile GiNaC on a PC running Windows 2000
> with the Cygwin UNIX utilities, but there seems to be a problem
> with the directories.  When I compile CLN and make install,
> the CLN files get installed in /usr/local/lib and /usr/local/include
> by default.  This seems like a sensible place to put the files,
> but when I run ./configure in the GiNaC directory, it tells me
> 
> configure: error: cannot find header for Bruno Haible's CLN
> 
> This message goes away if I install the CLN files in /usr/include
> and /usr/lib, but I don't like to do it this way.  Do you know how
> I can make the configure script look for the CLN files in their
> default location in /usr/local?  

Something is wrong with your compiler setup, I guess.  Maybe you can
force the preprocessor to look into /usr/local/include by setting the
environment variable CPPFLAGS, like this:
$ export CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include"
prior to running the configure script.  Good luck!

Regards
     -richy.
-- 
Richard Kreckel
<Richard.Kreckel at Uni-Mainz.DE>
<http://wwwthep.physik.uni-mainz.de/~kreckel/>