Seema Alevoor wrote: > > > IIRC you mentioned sometime before that the contents of this build > > directory are static (only delivered by the OS install/upgrade, cannot > > change otherwise). If so, then /usr/apache2/build/ makes sense to me. > > Yes. These files are used by other scripts like apxs. User is not > expected to modify these files. These files contain the data related > to the Apache build environment.
In that case it sounds like /usr... is the right place for both reasons. > > Do you know why it ended up in /var/apache2/build originally? Was that > > just a mistake? > > I don't know the reason why the build directory was placed under > /var/apache2 directory. Stefan, do you know the reason ? I just read through the materials and discussion of the previous apache2 case (2004/676) and there isn't any coverage of the build directory, it just showed up under /var. I'll check if the submitter of that case has any recollection about this topic. -- Jyri J. Virkki - jyri.virkki at sun.com - Sun Microsystems
