Look for the libc++ headers in base, and afterwards look if they might have been installed in ports. This is only usefull on FreeBSD <= 9.x since libc++ is shipped in 10 by default. No path to the library of libc++ is provided. The port wanting to use libc++ need to provide its own LDFLAGS. --- tools/clang/lib/Frontend/InitHeaderSearch.cpp.orig 2013-06-21 20:35:23.000000000 +0200 +++ tools/clang/lib/Frontend/InitHeaderSearch.cpp 2013-06-21 20:41:38.000000000 +0200 @@ -486,6 +486,7 @@ void InitHeaderSearch::AddDefaultInclude AddPath("/usr/include/c++/v1/support/solaris", CXXSystem, false); AddPath("/usr/include/c++/v1", CXXSystem, false); + AddPath("/usr/local/include/c++/v1", CXXSystem, false); } else { AddDefaultCPlusPlusIncludePaths(triple, HSOpts); }