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permissions aren't sensible. They're weird. Thorough documentation
doesn't make them any less weird.

> and it would be extremely unusual to have /usr/local on something 
> other than ext*, so much so that a comment to that effect would 
> absolutely be warranted if it were the case.

I frequently put /usr/local on NFS volumes when deploying across large
pools of hosts. I'm not the only one to ever do this. It isn't unusual
at all.


> NO, IT IS NOT.  If the files were not there, he would STILL get a 
> permission denied after chmod 0.  This conforms exactly to what I 
> said.

Irrelevant. What Bill was expecting was "file not found" which GCC
passes over for optional include and library directories. What he got
was the unexpected "permission denied" error and GCC failing.

-- 
Rich P.