Re: want to override config directory macro

On 6/13/05, Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu> wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-06-12 at 22:22 +0100, Max Bowsher wrote:
> > Nope, "/etc" is hardcoded. Which is not really very good.
>
> We're certainly not the first or last to hardcode /etc. The most
> obvious alternative is to use sysconfdir, which defaults to the
> bizarre /usr/etc when prefix is /usr.
>
> > John: Would making --sysconfdir actually work properly in this respect help
> > you?
>
> Can we do this and make sysconfdir default to /etc (instead of
> $prefix/etc) if not explicitly specified? If not, that would be an
> unexpected change.

As a non-voting reader, I'd recommend caution here -- it'd have better
backward compatibility for subversion, but might create more surprise
in the long run by breaking the "standard" autoconf way of doing
things (which subversion already does, I admit). My general
expectation is that when I point ./configure at a particular --prefix,
I won't have to explicitly point each/any off the --foodirs at that
prefix, too.

If you do go this route, I'd at least advise a warning in a readme and
./configure --help, to save yourself posts about "broken" configure in
the future.

-- 
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Charles Bailey
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