<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 16:32, Matthew Knepley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:knepley@gmail.com">knepley@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div id=":k4">Isn't the final point here that we are trying to let the user do the dumbest, easiest thing? Maybe no Linux distribution<div>does this, but we are trying to cope with bad input from a user not using a nice distro.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The price we would pay for cleaning up our internals is demanding that users think more about the configure input. This</div><div>is not always a good tradeoff.</div></div></blockquote></div><br><div>
Simple compromise proposal:</div><div><br></div><div>--with-cusp-dir=/prefix</div><div><br></div><div>Looks in /prefix/include/ for the headers <cusp/version.h>. If unsuccessful, it tries /prefix/.</div><div><br></div>
<div><br></div><div>If you insisted, it could even search in the other order. What I don't like is --with-cusp-dir=/prefix not looking for headers in /prefix/include/.</div>