Re: Which variable expands to /var?

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Bernd Jendrissek wrote on Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 04:24:54PM CET:
> 
> I agree that It Would Be Nice (tm) if ./configure would automagically
> choose FHS defaults if you asked it by, for example, specifying
> --prefix=/usr.  Then again, how would it know WHICH hierarchy standard

You can easily achieve that by means of a config.site file, so that you
end up with just one setting again.  See
  info Autoconf 'Site Defaults'

for an example to start off with.  Hope that helps.

Cheers,
Ralf