On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 03:50:16PM +0300, Paul Irofti wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Why isn't libinotify installed in /usr/local/lib?
> 
>   CONFIGURE_ARGS =    --libdir=${PREFIX}/lib/inotify/ \
>                       --includedir=${PREFIX}/include/inotify/
> 
> This choice implies path manipulation and patching for most ports that
> depend on it. 

Because it's an evil linux only thing that half works on openbsd through
broken kqueue implementation, so nobody wants it to be silently picked
by potential users..

Landry

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