When building ganglia as a FreeBSD port, I apply a number of patches and run some sed scripts to deal with the fact that the following paths are hardcoded into ganglia:
/etc/gmetad.conf /etc/gmond.conf /var/lib/ganglia/rrds The problem with this is that FreeBSD ports expect to find their config files in $prefix/etc and BSDs use /var/db rather then /var/lib for application databases. I would like to correct this problem. I have mostly complete patches to do so (not including since they don't fully work yet). In order to do this, the doc and config files that mention these paths become .in files so configure can update them. I've dealt with most of the C code, but the gengetopt code is causing me some problems because gengetopt can't generate .in files yet. There are three solutions to this problem. 1) stop using the default= support in gengetopt and do in ourselves. 2) Add a dependency on gengetopt to the build so we can use a cmdline.ggo.in file. 3) Make gengetopt generate .in files. Option 1 is fairly easy though it removes the somewhat useful default output from the command line. Option 2 is as fairly easy, but it adds a build dependency. That's not a major issue on FreeBSD, but we don't want the depends to get out of hand. Option 3 doesn't work except by hand yet, but I've submitted a patch to the gengetopt mailing list (or at least I will once the moderator wakes up and completes my subscription.) I think it is a bit ugly since makes two .in files. I think options 1 and 2 are more or less a tie for me. As part I the path overhaul, I plan to make the default prefix /usr/local like with most GNU software, install the config files by default in $prefix/etc/ and have the code that switches on $host set the new varstatedir variable to /var/db in the FreeBSD case. The default value of varstatedir will be /var/lib. This will require the configure line in ganglia.spec to be changed from: ./configure --prefix=/usr to ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc Does this sound like a reasonable thing to do? Any opinion on how to deal with the cmdline.[ch] files? -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4
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