Re: by default in /var and not in /usr/var/ ?
Thiago Macieira <[email protected]>
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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. -- Thiago Macieira - thiago (AT) macieira.info - thiago (AT) kde.org Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center PGP/GPG: 0x6EF45358; fingerprint: E067 918B B660 DBD1 105C 966C 33F5 F005 6EF4 5358 _______________________________________________ dbus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dbus