On Sat, Feb 26, 2022 at 11:10 AM Roy Marples <r...@marples.name> wrote:
>
> On 26/02/2022 09:04, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> >> So it's very assumptive that configure is a shell script and sets the
> >> variable
> >> ${prefix} to what --prefix is AND evaluates each assignment so it can work
> >> out
> >> the variable prefix.
> >>
> >> This behaviour is not documented by autoconf as far as I can see.
> >>
> >> If you do --mandir=/usr/share/man or don't set it all all then dhcpcd's
> >> configure gets the results you want.
> >
> > Not setting it at all results in the manual pages getting incorrectly
> > installed in /share/man/manX/ as shown in the previous e-mail. This is
> > a bug. It should inherit prefix, but it somehow doesn't.
> >
> > Explicitly setting --mandir=/usr/share/man obviously works, but should
> > not be needed if prefix was correctly inherited.
>
> $ ./configure --prefix=/tmp/foo
> ...
> SYSCONFDIR = /tmp/foo/etc
> SBINDIR = /tmp/foo/sbin
> LIBDIR = /tmp/foo/lib
> LIBEXECDIR = /tmp/foo/libexec
> DBDIR = /var/db/dhcpcd
> RUNDIR = /var/run/dhcpcd
> MANDIR = /tmp/foo/share/man
> DATADIR = /tmp/foo/share
> HOOKSCRIPTS = 50-ntp.conf
> EGHOOKSCRIPTS = 50-ypbind
> STATUSARG =
> PRIVSEPUSER = _dhcpcd
>
> How is this broken?
See above messages.
Martin-Éric
