It has been brought to my attention that in my package (GNU units) I have a file that gets changed every day located in datarootdir---but this location is for read only files.
The correct place for my architecture independent dynamic file would appear to be sharedstatedir. However, this resolves to the rather bizarre path /usr/local/com. I can't find any reference to anybody actually using this path. Do all the distributions over-ride this into something "normal"? The fedora units guy tells me it will be /var/lib, for example---and I think with redhat the whole /usr directory is supposed to be read only. So what's the correct practice for my package? Should I use sharedstatedir and not worry about it resolving to a strange default path because mostly it will get changed by site defaults? Or is there some other way to handle this? _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
