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

Thiago Macieira <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.freedesktop.dbus
Message-ID <1861243.TbTGuyVtj2@tjmaciei-mobl4>
On Saturday 24 October 2015 08:39:14 linuxcbon linuxcbon wrote:
> > Which is why everyone who builds an autotools-based project with
> > --prefix=/usr also passes --localstatedir=/var --sysconfdir=/etc.
> > That's the standard.
> 
> No, most of people who compile stuff only do  --prefix=/usr
> So yes, there is a problem with autoconf, I will ask them what's going
> on with standards.

They'll probably answer that unless the user says otherwise, everything goes 
inside the prefix. /var isn't inside /usr.

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