Re: GNU Parallel Bug Reports Latest parallel in non-default prefix gives errors about retired options

[Robin Neatherway]

On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 1:09 AM, William Bader <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> I have Fedora 20 x86_64 on my laptop, and parallel-20140822 works OK for me.
>
> I have not installed Fedora's parallel-20130522-4.fc20.noarch package.
> Fedora's package contains /etc/parallel/config
>
> I remember from an older version of Fedora where I installed Fedora's
> parallel, Fedora's package created an /etc/parallel/config that set
> --tollef, and that confused versions of parallel that I built from source.
> In my scripts, I had to specify --gnu.

This was also my previous experience.

> I think that if parallel is installed normally, the Makefile prefix is
> /usr/local and the sysconfdir is ${prefix}/etc, so the new parallel should
> look for its configuration in /usr/local/etc and not in /etc.
>
> I think that either Robin configured parallel with prefix / instead of
> /usr/local or else parallel is reverting to /etc/parallel/config if
> /usr/local/etc/parallel/config does not exist.  parallel should respect its
> configured installation prefix to make it possible to install multiple
> versions without creating conflicts.

I configured with prefix=/home/scratch/local. On line 1228 of parallel I find:

my @config_profiles = (
   "/etc/parallel/config",
   $ENV{'HOME'}."/.parallel/config",
   $ENV{'HOME'}."/.parallelrc");

so it uses the system-wide configuration file.