Re: Server Adjustments

2009-12-15 Thread Glus Xof
Yesterday, I wrote, I understand.,, but what happens about /etc/init.d shell scripts (I mean the ones which start, stop restart servers) ?  Would be possible to get more info about the way of manage them ? But, this silence starts to make me think. Maybe, you want to tell me that these

Re[4]: Server Adjustments

2009-12-15 Thread Konstantin Andreev
Hello, Glus. First of all, autoconf works at build time, not install time. A particular system, on which you install the software, may have habits different from build system. Second, autoconf relies on development tools, which may be not available at install time. And last, but not least,

Re: Server Adjustments

2009-12-15 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
I understand.,, but what happens about /etc/init.d shell scripts (I mean the ones which start, stop restart servers) ? Would be possible to get more info about the way of manage them ? That is very operating system dependant, gNewSense does it one way, Fedora another, Ubuntu yet

Re: Server Adjustments

2009-12-15 Thread Glus Xof
2009/12/15 Alfred M. Szmidt a...@gnu.org:   I understand.,, but what happens about /etc/init.d shell scripts (I   mean the ones which start, stop restart servers) ?  Would be   possible to get more info about the way of manage them ? That is very operating system dependant, gNewSense does it

Re: Server Adjustments

2009-12-15 Thread William Pursell
Glus Xof wrote: What should I do in my configure.ac ?... Would be necessary to make changes in my Makefile.am ? Apologies for perhaps excess snippage: the discussion is about using the autotools to install in system directories. I would make no changes to configure.ac or Makefile.am, as

Re: Server Adjustments

2009-12-15 Thread Glus Xof
What should I do in my configure.ac ?... Would be necessary to make changes in my Makefile.am ? Apologies for perhaps excess snippage: the discussion is about using the autotools to install in system directories. I would make no changes to configure.ac or Makefile.am, as you're looking in

Re: Server Adjustments

2009-12-15 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
But right now, I've a little problem because my server has a configuration file. I thought that the best place to place it would be the /etc folder... It seems that it's precisely the default value of $(sysconfigdir), but I don't know if it's possible to my server (my programm)

Re: Server Adjustments

2009-12-15 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, Glus Xof wrote: In this moment, I'm wonder what is, then, the purpose of make install processes ?. I always believed that those, with root rigths, take files and put (copy) them to the right place in the system directories... doesn't it? Yes, it could do that and ideally

Re: Server Adjustments

2009-12-15 Thread Glus Xof
2009/12/15 Alfred M. Szmidt a...@gnu.org:   But right now, I've a little problem because my server has a   configuration file. I thought that the best place to place it would   be the /etc folder... It seems that it's precisely the default   value of $(sysconfigdir), but I don't know if it's

Re: Server Adjustments

2009-12-15 Thread Glus Xof
2009/12/15 Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us: On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, Glus Xof wrote: In this moment, I'm wonder what is, then, the purpose of make install processes ?. I always believed that those, with root rigths, take files and put (copy) them to the right place in the system

Re: Server Adjustments

2009-12-15 Thread Steffen DETTMER
* Glus Xof wrote on Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 18:59 +0100: I would make no changes to configure.ac or Makefile.am, as you're looking in the wrong place. The type of questions you're asking are more appropriate for the package management system, and you should be making changes to your spec

Re: Server Adjustments

2009-12-15 Thread Richard Ash
On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 13:02 -0500, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: So, Makefile should receive the value of $(sysconfigdir) from the configuration process. You can pass something like `-DCONFFILE=$(sysconfdir)/foo.conf' in Makefile.am when compiling via foo_CPPFLAGS so that the program can