arbitrary build can't find libs - right way to do this?

[Steve Franks]

On Nov 20, 2007 5:33 PM, Steve Bertrand <iaccounts at ibctech.ca> wrote:
>
> > I'd love to (submit a port), but how do I make a port if I can't even
> > get it to work the first time myself?
> >     configure --includedir=/usr/local/include doesn't work;
> >     export CPATH =/usr/local/include doesn't work;
> >     export CPPFLAGS -l/usr/local/include doesn't work;
> >     I've checked the permissions,
> >     and I can see the file right there, but configure/gcc can't.  The
> > developer swears something must be 'different' about freebsd because
> > his gcc finds the same file in /usr/local/include.  Appears his system
> > is gentoo...
>
> Would you be able to provide access to a tarball of what you are trying
> to compile/install for external testing so more eyeballs can see?
>
> Steve
>
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Well, the app is http://roadnav.sourceforge.net/downloads.php - I
haven't tweaked it at all, so you can get the .tar right from them.

It's a 2-part app, part one is the library, it installed fine after I
symlinked wxgtk2-2.85-config to wx-config.  Make install then put a
bunch of stuff in /usr/local/include/libroadnav, and libroadnav.a into
/usr/local/lib

Then running configure on the main app complains that it can't find
Map.h, which is right there where the lib's makefile installed it.  I
thought it was a permissions problem, but I can't see how.  I've run
all the commands as a sudoer, and the permissions/owner/etc on
libroadnav look just like all the other libs/includes...

Steve