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Re: gnustep-make: /etc/GNUstep.conf in case of --prefix and --sysconfdir
From: |
Richard Frith-Macdonald |
Subject: |
Re: gnustep-make: /etc/GNUstep.conf in case of --prefix and --sysconfdir |
Date: |
Wed, 5 Apr 2017 09:59:24 +0100 |
> On 2 Apr 2017, at 17:19, Ivan Vučica <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Hey,
>
> I'm trying to install GNUstep into /GNUstep with folders such as
> /GNUstep/System, /GNUstep/Local, etc. However, GNUstep.conf should live in
> /etc/GNUstep/GNUstep.conf.
>
> ./configure --prefix=/GNUstep --with-layout=gnustep --sysconfdir=/etc
>
> Looks like sysconfdir is not used here. And in fact, GNUstep.conf ends up in
> /GNUstep/etc/GNUstep/GNUstep.conf, where it presumably won't be found by
> things trying to find where GNUstep is installed.
I spent quite some time trying to figure out how it might be possible to
preserve most of existing behavior while also making the code honor
--sysconfdir=
There's no way I could find in autoconf to tell whether the use has supplied
the --sysconfdir= option, so checking for that would probabaly require us to
add code to parse the command line arguments passed to the configure script and
see if they contain --sysconfdir=, and that seems like a lot of work for little
effect.
However, as far as I can see $sysconfdir should always be $prefix/etc when
neither -sysconfdir= is used.
So perhaps we might use:
if --with-config-file= is supplied ... use it
else if $sysconfdir is not $prefix/etc ... use $sysconfdir/GNUstep/GNUstep.conf
else if on darwin ... use /Library/GNUstep/GNUstep.conf
else use current rules based on $GNUSTEP_PREFIX