sysconfdir

[Roman Neuhauser]

sysconfdir is defined as '${prefix}/etc', but configure --prefix=/usr
should imply sysconfdir='/etc' (or should it?).

what does everybody do to get stuff under "/etc"?

[Eric Blake]

Post by Roman Neuhauser
sysconfdir is defined as '${prefix}/etc', but configure --prefix=/usr
should imply sysconfdir='/etc' (or should it?).

--prefix=/usr should imply sysconfdir='${prefix}/etc' UNLESS you have
installed a config.site that says otherwise (which, thankfully, more and
more distros are starting to do).

Post by Roman Neuhauser
what does everybody do to get stuff under "/etc"?

They install a /usr/share/config.site file that overrides sysconfdir as
needed:
https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf.html#Site-Defaults

[John Calcote]

Use --sysconfdir=/etc when you use --prefix=/usr.


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-------- Original message --------
From: Roman Neuhauser <***@sigpipe.cz>
Date:03/19/2015 3:49 PM (GMT-07:00)
To: ***@gnu.org
Cc:
Subject: sysconfdir

sysconfdir is defined as '${prefix}/etc', but configure --prefix=/usr
should imply sysconfdir='/etc' (or should it?).

what does everybody do to get stuff under "/etc"?