Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] add --confdir option to configure

[Paolo Bonzini]

Il 19/03/2012 17:20, Eduardo Habkost ha scritto:
>> > I think the package name is a pretty special case.  Even with autotools,
>> > it's pretty much the only thing that requires configure-by-sed to change 
>> > it.
> I still don't understand why, except that it's a limitation of the build
> system implementation. If we don't have that restriction, I don't see
> why this should be restricted by design.

Because our configure is half-compatible, half-incompatible with
autotools.  This can be confusing, I don't think it's good to add to the
differences.

> Anyway, even if we decide that package name shouldn't be changed: why
> changing mandir,

This one is because all manpages are under /usr/man/manSECT

> docdir and datadir doesn't require changing the package
> name, but changing /etc/qemu has to?

The pedantic answer is "because our meaning of --datadir differ from the
one of autotools", and it cannot really be changed because it would
break backwards-compatibility.  However, I guess that's not an entirely
satisfying answer.

However, the package name and the directory suffix need not be exactly
the same.  Why don't you add --with-conf-suffix or something like that,
and make it apply to both datadir and sysconfdir?

Paolo