Re: Add vendor configuration directory installation

Paul Eggert <[email protected]> Tue, 7 Feb 2023 11:29:38 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.standards,gmane.comp.sysutils.autoconf.patches
Organization UCLA Computer Science Department
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2023-02-06 08:30, Valentin Lefebvre wrote:
>      This patch add a new autoconf argument that allows installation
> into the vendor configuration directory (/usr/etc/). Some linux
> distribution now move system configuration files from /etc to /usr/etc.
> See this ref: [0]....

> [0]https://0pointer.net/blog/projects/stateless.html

I don't see "/usr/etc" in [0]. What I see is /usr/share/etc, i.e., 
$(datarootdir)/etc. It's not clear why the latter name doesn't suffice 
for this need, as files in $(datarootdir) are also supplied by the 
distro and are read-only.

Also, make-stds.texi and standards.texi are upstream from Autoconf; to 
make changes to them, please email [email protected]. I'll cc this 
to that email address to give them a heads-up.