On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 9:59 AM, Richard Frith-Macdonald <
richard.frith-macdon...@theengagehub.com> wrote:
>
> > On 2 Apr 2017, at 17:19, Ivan Vučica <i...@vucica.net> wrote:
> >
> > Hey,
> >
> > I'm trying to install GNUstep into /GNUstep with folders such as
> /GNUstep/System, /GNUstep/Local, etc. However, GNUstep.conf should live in
> /etc/GNUstep/GNUstep.conf.
> >
> > ./configure --prefix=/GNUstep --with-layout=gnustep --sysconfdir=/etc
> >
> > Looks like sysconfdir is not used here. And in fact, GNUstep.conf ends
> up in /GNUstep/etc/GNUstep/GNUstep.conf, where it presumably won't be
> found by things trying to find where GNUstep is installed.
>
> I spent quite some time trying to figure out how it might be possible to
> preserve most of existing behavior while also making the code honor
> --sysconfdir=
> There's no way I could find in autoconf to tell whether the use has
> supplied the --sysconfdir= option, so checking for that would probabaly
> require us to add code to parse the command line arguments passed to the
> configure script and see if they contain --sysconfdir=, and that seems like
> a lot of work for little effect.
>
Yes, but the default is sane too: /etc
So we could use it blindly.
(I'm only confused at why the autoconf-provided string says [PREFIX/etc] to
be the default.)
> However, as far as I can see $sysconfdir should always be $prefix/etc when
> neither -sysconfdir= is used.
> So perhaps we might use:
>
> if --with-config-file= is supplied ... use it
> else if $sysconfdir is not $prefix/etc ... use
> $sysconfdir/GNUstep/GNUstep.conf
> else if on darwin ... use /Library/GNUstep/GNUstep.conf
> else use current rules based on $GNUSTEP_PREFIX
>
I was under the impression $GNUSTEP_PREFIX was supposed to be the same as
$prefix, but if not, this looks right (apart from $sysconfdir not seeming
to include $prefix when I was trying it out -- I will confirm this).
If $GNUSTEP_PREFIX is the same as $prefix, we can simply skip branch #2
("else if $sysconfdir...").
I'll see what I can do.
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