diff -up ssdeep-2.10/configure.ac.old ssdeep-2.10/configure.ac
--- ssdeep-2.10/configure.ac.old	2014-01-22 11:39:10.000000000 +0100
+++ ssdeep-2.10/configure.ac	2014-01-22 11:40:35.000000000 +0100
@@ -21,16 +21,6 @@ case $host in
 esac
 
 
-# Bring additional directories where things might be found into our
-# search path. I don't know why autoconf doesn't do this by default
-for spfx in /usr/local /opt/local /sw ; do
-    echo checking ${spfx}/include
-    if test -d ${spfx}/include; then
-        CPPFLAGS="-I${spfx}/include $CPPFLAGS"
-        LDFLAGS="-L${spfx}/lib $LDFLAGS"
-    fi
-done
-
 AC_C_BIGENDIAN
 AC_SYS_LARGEFILE
 
diff -up ssdeep-2.10/configure.old ssdeep-2.10/configure
--- ssdeep-2.10/configure.old	2014-01-22 11:39:00.000000000 +0100
+++ ssdeep-2.10/configure	2014-01-22 11:40:21.000000000 +0100
@@ -15462,16 +15462,6 @@ $as_echo "#define __LINUX__ 1" >>confdef
 esac
 
 
-# Bring additional directories where things might be found into our
-# search path. I don't know why autoconf doesn't do this by default
-for spfx in /usr/local /opt/local /sw ; do
-    echo checking ${spfx}/include
-    if test -d ${spfx}/include; then
-        CPPFLAGS="-I${spfx}/include $CPPFLAGS"
-        LDFLAGS="-L${spfx}/lib $LDFLAGS"
-    fi
-done
-
  { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking whether byte ordering is bigendian" >&5
 $as_echo_n "checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... " >&6; }
 if ${ac_cv_c_bigendian+:} false; then :