Re: Automake and directories
Jukka Zitting <[email protected]> Fri, 17 Feb 2006 16:05:51 +0200
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.web.midgard.devel |
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On 2/17/06, Piotras <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, that's why I created conf.d directory and moved example file there. > No directory is created. Ah, I found the problem. It gets created in NONE/etc/midgard/conf.d! This happens because of the MGD_ETC_PATH="$prefix/etc" line in configure.in. $prefix is NONE unless the --prefix option has been given on the command line. > > Is there a reason why we do not use the standard directory layout? > > It depends ;) > But I preffer /etc instead of /usr/etc. > I overwrite sysconfdir for this exception only. Wouldn't it be better to allow users to decide for themselves? You could follow this preference simply by: ./configure --sysconfdir=/etc BR, Jukka Zitting -- Yukatan - http://yukatan.fi/ - [email protected] Software craftmanship, JCR consulting, and Java development