Re: by default in /var and not in /usr/var/ ?

Thiago Macieira <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.freedesktop.dbus
Message-ID <11573112.fVo7UFE7ZZ@tjmaciei-mobl4>
On Friday 23 October 2015 16:02:13 linuxcbon linuxcbon wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 3:38 PM, Simon McVittie
> 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > The GNU Coding Standards, and the defaults in Autoconf that result from
> > those standards, make --localstatedir (and all other configurable
> > directories) default to a path below --prefix. This is not something
> > that D-Bus configures; we just use it.
> 
>   you mean, GNU standard is /usr/var/ and not /var/ ?

The GNU Autoconf default is /usr/local/var, since the default prefix is 
/usr/local.

> Where did you get that from ? /usr/var/ has never been standard. It's
> /var/ the standard.

Which is why everyone who builds an autotools-based project with --prefix=/usr 
also passes --localstatedir=/var --sysconfdir=/etc.

That's the standard.

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