The most common way is to put it in $(sysconfdir) - not /etc, not
$(prefix)/etc, not $(libdir)/etc. That makes it easy to locate the
configuration files anywhere and exactly where you want them.
On 05 Jul 2001 08:45:42 +0200, Andreas Beck wrote:
> > Hmmm... well when it does get fixed take care that this
> > ${prefix} should be "" if --prefix=/usr was given, otherwise we
> > end up with /usr/etc/ggi which is not right.
>
> Hmm - that's a matter of taste. Many distributions have it, and it is a
> reasonable place, as you can have stuff in /bin,/lib,/etc,... as well as in
> /usr/bin/,/usr/lib/,/usr/etc.
>
> The idea to put all in /etc is to have all config in one place. However it
> isn't strictly necessary. As soon as /usr is mounted, all is well, so if the
> program needing the config is on /usr, there is no technical reason not to
> use /usr/etc. Got to check the filesystem hierarchy standard however.
>
> > Also, the conf files now have .root: ${exec_prefix}/lib/ggi
> > ...this looks new to me -- is that supposed to be like that, or
> > should that ${exec_prefix} have been subbed?
>
> That's bad. The config logic has no macro handling of its own, so it should
> have been subbed.
>
> CU, Andy
>
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