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I downloaded and built a C, g++ library that I want to use in a couple of other C projects.
What is the best/standard directory to put the library in on OS X Snow Leopard?
/opt/local/lib//usr/local/lib/And related: What is the standard library/include search path for g++?
/usr/local/lib is the standard place for these in almost any Unix-like OS.
MacPorts creates the /opt hierarchy so that it doesn't mess with what you've done manually in /usr/local/.
Fink creates the /sw hierarchy for similar reasons.
Homebrew I think still defaults to messing with /usr/local (a design decision I find distasteful), but I think it has a "prefix" option to make it use its own hierarchy instead.
