On Sat, 2006-10-14 at 17:21 -0500, Mike McQueen wrote: > There is a bug (http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/5586) in Flyspray for the > mlocate package, in which the problem described is apparently caused by the > lack of '--sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var' among the configure options > in the package build. I'm curious, since many of Arch's PKGBUILD's don't have > these options included (besides the ones which would never touch those > directories), what is the proper criteria that a developer would use when > making a PKGBUILD to determine when and if to include the sysconfig and > localstatedir options?
Packages that use --prefix=/usr and that have configuration files or /var files should always specify those options. I noticed it with fontconfig yesterday, which wanted to use /usr/var for the cache, which is a symlink to /var, so that's the reason it wasn't detected before. _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
