Re: Setting a default path with autoconf

2002-09-21 Thread Roger Leigh
Will Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thursday 19 Sep 2002 11:00 pm, Roger Leigh wrote: The average user shouldn't be running configure with a prefix of / or /usr, and so the default is what they want. /etc and /usr are owned by dpkg, so nothing should be installed manually there.

Re: Setting a default path with autoconf

2002-09-21 Thread Roger Leigh
Will Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thursday 19 Sep 2002 11:00 pm, Roger Leigh wrote: The average user shouldn't be running configure with a prefix of / or /usr, and so the default is what they want. /etc and /usr are owned by dpkg, so nothing should be installed manually there.

Setting a default path with autoconf

2002-09-19 Thread Will Newton
I have a package that really needs to have a configurable location of it's configuration files. This would be possible by putting them in $sysconfdir, but for some reason I am yet to come close to understanding, $sysconfdir is set to $prefix/etc which is not a good place to put config files

Re: Setting a default path with autoconf

2002-09-19 Thread Roger Leigh
Will Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a package that really needs to have a configurable location of it's configuration files. This would be possible by putting them in $sysconfdir, but for some reason I am yet to come close to understanding, $sysconfdir is set to $prefix/etc which

Re: Setting a default path with autoconf

2002-09-19 Thread Will Newton
On Thursday 19 Sep 2002 11:00 pm, Roger Leigh wrote: The average user shouldn't be running configure with a prefix of / or /usr, and so the default is what they want. /etc and /usr are owned by dpkg, so nothing should be installed manually there. Running ./configure without arguments will

Re: Setting a default path with autoconf

2002-09-19 Thread Junichi Uekawa
On Fri, 20 Sep 2002 00:08:16 +0100 Will Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The average user shouldn't be running configure with a prefix of / or /usr, and so the default is what they want. /etc and /usr are owned by dpkg, so nothing should be installed manually there. Running ./configure

Re: Setting a default path with autoconf

2002-09-19 Thread Roger Leigh
Will Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a package that really needs to have a configurable location of it's configuration files. This would be possible by putting them in $sysconfdir, but for some reason I am yet to come close to understanding, $sysconfdir is set to $prefix/etc which

Re: Setting a default path with autoconf

2002-09-19 Thread Will Newton
On Thursday 19 Sep 2002 11:00 pm, Roger Leigh wrote: The average user shouldn't be running configure with a prefix of / or /usr, and so the default is what they want. /etc and /usr are owned by dpkg, so nothing should be installed manually there. Running ./configure without arguments will

Re: Setting a default path with autoconf

2002-09-19 Thread Junichi Uekawa
On Fri, 20 Sep 2002 00:08:16 +0100 Will Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The average user shouldn't be running configure with a prefix of / or /usr, and so the default is what they want. /etc and /usr are owned by dpkg, so nothing should be installed manually there. Running ./configure