On 09/12/2013 03:54 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > http://lwn.net/Articles/436012/ documents that many distros > are now preferring to use /run rather than /var/run for > storage of pid files and other per-process temporary files > that must not be cleaned out during arbitrary TMPDIR sweeps. > As such, the GNU Coding Standards were recently changed to > recommend a new configure option to make it easy to choose > this directory at configure time. This patch adds support > for the option to all configure scripts built by autoconf. > > * general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PARSE_ARGS): Add new directory option. > (_AC_INIT_HELP): Document it. > * doc/autoconf.texi (Installation Directory Variables): Document > new option. > (Site Defaults): Mention typical use within a distro. > * NEWS: Mention the addition. > > Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> > --- > > I don't plan to push this until the make-stds.texi changes actually > go live (particarly in case we change our minds on what to name it, > but also to give a chance for anyone to review the wording used in > my documentation below). But this is all the more autoconf has to > do in order to support the new option.
Now applied; any further changes can be followup patches. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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