Re: Site configuration files and configure defaults

[Eric Blake]

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According to Tim Post on 5/10/2008 8:34 PM:
| I have been trying to find a way to change sysconfdir to just be
| ${sysconfdir}, not ${prefix}/${sysconfdir}. I'd like to set that as a
| configure default for my program.

Sorry, but that goes against GNU Coding Standards, so autoconf itself
doesn't really permit changing this default in your configure.ac.

|
| I see that this is easy to change with site configuration files on the
| part of the user,

Yes, that is the recommended approach - if you are installing into a FHS
tree, the manual even gives the formula for this at the end of this section:

http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/html_node/Site-Defaults.html#Site-Defaults

| but I don't see a way to change the configure
| defaults.

And for good reason.  Not everyone installs into the FHS layout, and
removing ${prefix} from the default for ${sysconfdir} will break
installation when a user does './configure --prefix=$HOME'.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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