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grigorescu commented on BIT-1166:
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After some off-list e-mails, the conclusion reached was:
* broctl's CMakeList will install files in /var/opt/bro if the prefix is not
/usr and the OS is not OS X.
* This is in line with
[FHS|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard#Directory_structure].
* Modifying this behavior would be a breaking change for many places, but we
could introduce a configure option to override the location of the directory.
Personally, I build packages to install Bro, and these are the default paths in
packages. I've had to work around core dumps running /var out of disk space,
since the partitioning scheme didn't leave much room in /var. Having such an
option would be useful for me, at least, but it's not immediately clear to me
how trivial of a change this would be.
> installation does not take place in given prefix entirely
> ---------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: BIT-1166
> URL: https://bro-tracker.atlassian.net/browse/BIT-1166
> Project: Bro Issue Tracker
> Issue Type: Problem
> Components: Bro, BroControl
> Affects Versions: git/master
> Reporter: Matthias Vallentin
> Labels: build
>
> When configuring Bro to remain in a given prefix, say {{/opt/bro}}, the
> installation of BroControl still attempts to create a spool directory outside
> of the prefix:
> {code}
> ./configure --prefix=/opt/bro
> make
> make install
> [...]
> CMake Error at aux/broctl/cmake_install.cmake:200 (FILE):
> file cannot create directory: /var/opt/bro/spool. Maybe need
> administrative privileges.
> {code}
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