On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, Jeremy Kitchen wrote:
>1.2.6 final:
>./configure --prefix=/var/bincimap
>[snip]
>checking --prefix... using /var/bincimap
>checking --sysconfdir... using /var/bincimap/etc
>checking --localstatedir... using /var/bincimap/var
>checking --datadir... using /var/bincimap/share

These are mistakes in 1.2.6 - it shouldn't be this way.

>1.2.7beta5:
>./configure --prefix=/var/bincimap
>[snip]
>checking --prefix... using /var/bincimap
>checking --sysconfdir... /etc/opt/bincimap
>checking --localstatedir... /var/opt/bincimap
>checking --datadir... /var/opt/bincimap

This is how it is meant to be.

>according to ./configure --help on both versions:
>  --sysconfdir=DIR       read-only single-machine data [PREFIX/etc]

The [PREFIX/etc] is the wrong part.

>so it appears that the ./configure script isn't working quite right.

I'll see if I can update the default statement in the help screen.

Andy :-)

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Andreas Aardal Hanssen   | http://www.andreas.hanssen.name/gpg
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