On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 10:36, Casey Allen Shobe wrote:
> Jeremy Kitchen wrote:
> > On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 02:13, Andreas Aardal Hanssen wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > but I like it! :(
>
> So do I. I certainly don't want all these silly $PREFIX/{etc,var}/opt
> directories popping up all over the place. All installation paths
> should be relative to PREFIX unless overridden. This is both what one
> expects and consistant with the majority of other packages out there.
> Breaching $PREFIX by default is really quite a bad thing, as one of the
> reasonings for using it is to contain the entire application within a
> single directory (consider, --prefix=/opt/bincimap).
yea, I think that's the way most software does it.. and if you want to
be LSB compliant you just specify like --sysconfdir, etc.
> If I simply type in --prefix=/usr, then sysconfdir should be /usr/etc,
> localstatedir should be /usr/var, and datadir should be /usr/share.
> Based on the given examples, 1.2.6 seems to work like this, just as it
> should.
nods, just how I like it :)
> > I guess I'll just have to add more options to configure to put the stuff
> > all in /var/bincimap how I want it :)
>
> I strongly believe that --prefix=/var/bincimap should be enough unless
> you didn't like the arrangement of the files in the subdirectories thereof.
no, I like having it all in /var/bincimap.. gives me some sort of
consistency :)
-Jeremy
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