Eric Blake writes: > On 11/16/2014 11:51 PM, Harlan Stenn wrote: >> One installation directory choice I haven't found a good solution to >> is the ntp.conf file, which is traditionally installed in /etc/ . If >> there is an ntp.keys file, it will usually go in /etc/ as well. >> >> In general, folks want the config-related files to be in /etc/ even >> if they install the binaries in /usr/local. >> >> While I'd like to use sysconfdir for this I'm concerned about the >> hackery I'd need to do to make it work as we expect. > > sysconfdir IS the solution you are looking for. A distro will run: > > =2E/configure prefix=3D/ sysconfdir=3D/etc > > and things will just work.
Eric, it needs more than that. We might be able to do it with: --prefix=/ --exec-prefix=/usr/local --sysconfdir=/etc but that won't work because that also affects datarootdir, includedir, localstatedir, and sharedstatedir. I need sysconfdir to be $DESTDIR/etc and all of the others to use $DESTDIR/usr/local/XXX . >> I'm thinking about using ntpconfdir for this, but how to make that work >> the way the other paths do hasn't been obvious to me from casual study. > > I don't see the point of adding a non-standard variable when the > standard one already works as advertised. If they work as advertised then what is advertised is not what I need in this case. H _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf