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Re: Which variable expands to /var?
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Jules Colding |
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Re: Which variable expands to /var? |
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Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:41:20 +0100 |
On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 12:37 +0200, Bernd Jendrissek wrote:
> On Feb 7, 2008 11:40 AM, Jules Colding <address@hidden> wrote:
> > I'm trying to find the autoconf variable that would expand to "/var".
> > Which one might that be?
>
> Typically that would be --localstatedir, which your script and
> Makefiles see as ${localstatedir}.
>
> Note that ./configure defaults this to ${prefix}/var, but if you're
> building a binary package for a distribution you'd use
> --localstatedir=/var.
Yes, I've tried that one, but I found it annoying that I had to define
it at configure time to get rid of the pre-pended ${prefix}.
Thanks,
jules
- Which variable expands to /var?, Jules Colding, 2008/02/07
- Re: Which variable expands to /var?, Bernd Jendrissek, 2008/02/07
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- Re: Which variable expands to /var?, Eric Blake, 2008/02/07
- Re: Which variable expands to /var?, Jules Colding, 2008/02/07
- Re: Which variable expands to /var?, Bernd Jendrissek, 2008/02/07
- Re: Which variable expands to /var?, Paul Smith, 2008/02/07
- Re: Which variable expands to /var?, Keith Marshall, 2008/02/07
- Re: Which variable expands to /var?, Eric Blake, 2008/02/07
- Re: Which variable expands to /var?, Brian Dessent, 2008/02/07
- Re: Which variable expands to /var?, Ralf Wildenhues, 2008/02/08
- Re: Which variable expands to /var?, Ralf Wildenhues, 2008/02/08
- Re: Which variable expands to /var?, Eric Blake, 2008/02/08