You are exactly correct. Changing sysconfdir will break things,
however, sysconfdir is generally changed for installation to a temporary
directory for pacakaging purposes so that files can be tracked.
On 03 Jul 2001 21:09:08 +0200, Andreas Beck wrote:
> Thayne Harbaugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > with gii_confdir is that it is built from $sysconfdir and is fully
> > expanded after configuring - usually being /etc/ggi. The problem is
> > that many build/packaging systems legitimately change sysconfdir between
> > build and installation. If gii_confdir doesn't have a late binding then
> > it won't have this redirection.
>
> Oooops - changing sysconfdir between build and installation will break
> LibGGI anyway, beacuse the location of the configuration file is compiled
> into the LibGGI executable.
>
> However I suppose said changes are only done to do something like
> install-to-tmp, then package from there (avoiding to clutter system
> directories), removing the leading temporary path, so that the final
> install of the package will again be where the orginal build-time path
> was - right ?
>
> CU, Andy
>
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