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Re: Site configuration files and configure defaults
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Tim Post |
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Re: Site configuration files and configure defaults |
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Tue, 13 May 2008 10:16:44 +0800 |
On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 06:58 -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> Sorry, but that goes against GNU Coding Standards, so autoconf itself
> doesn't really permit changing this default in your configure.ac.
Understandably.
> And for good reason. Not everyone installs into the FHS layout, and
> removing ${prefix} from the default for ${sysconfdir} will break
> installation when a user does './configure --prefix=$HOME'.
Indeed a very good reason not to do it :) Thanks for the reply.
Regards,
--Tim
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