Re: localstatedir

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 14:11 +0200, Baurzhan Ismagulov wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> in my package, I configure --localstatedir=/var and store a file as
> LOCALSTATEDIR "/lib/" PACKAGE "/file.dat".  Besides, I use LOCALSTATEDIR
> "/run/" PACKAGE ".pid". Is this how it was intended to use,
In short: Yes.

>  or should I
> configure --localstatedir=/var/lib/package and use LOCALSTATEDIR
> "/file.dat", and use something else for package.pid? file.dat is the
> application state data read on the next startup.
That's a different issue. localstatedir is the root directory, which
directories and how to derive them from localstatdir is beyond
autoconf's scope.

Ralf