Re: Introduction to Xorg-7: XORG_PREFIX & XORG_CONFIG Weird Issue
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On 8/14/25 6:36 PM, azazel xes ([email protected] via blfs-support Mailing List) wrote: > Hi, > > When following instructions to choose the installation prefix that in my case i > decided to with /usr, I was never able to pass the value of $XORG_PREFIX to $XORG_CONFIG > > I followed the instructions, double checked that echo $XORG_PREFIX will print /usr > with a no-root and a root user which was successful in both cases, but when > copypasting (with the root user): > > export XORG_CONFIG="--prefix=$XORG_PREFIX --sysconfdir=/etc \ > --localstatedir=/var --disable-static" > If i echo $XORG_CONFIG with the root user or a no-root user the output will always > be an empty value for the --prefix: > > echo $XORG_CONFIG="--prefix= --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --disable-static" > So creating the /etc/profile.d/xorg.sh was not possible neither because the file will > always be created with a blank value for XORG_CONFIG, I'm not using zsh as my > terminal and i also try removing the backslash in front of the dollar sign which was > unsuccessful too, so I decided to hard code the value /usr to the XORG_CONFIG in / > etc/profile.d/xorg.sh > > Will there be any particular reason for this weird behavior? is it bad that I hard > coded the prefix value to /usr ? Why are you doing a copy/paste as root? We assume that users will use sudo from the non-root user and configure sudo with: cat > /etc/sudoers.d/xorg << EOF Defaults env_keep += XORG_PREFIX Defaults env_keep += XORG_CONFIG EOF Alternatively you can run sudo as 'sudo -E'. -- Bruce -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/sympa/info/blfs-support Unsubscribe: See the above information page