On Sat, Jun 01, 2013 at 02:05:29PM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> On 2013/06/01 14:40, David Coppa wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 12:10 AM, Rafael Sadowski <raf...@sizeofvoid.org>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > No longer ${LOCALBASE}?
> >
> > Imho it does not make sense anymore... You should patch and apply
> > ${SUBST_CMD} to, probably, every file under Modules/
> >
> > cheers,
> > David
> >
>
> or just s,/usr/local,${LOCALBASE},g
>
> (I still don't recall coming across anyone who actually builds
> and uses packages against a different LOCALBASE themselves though,
> iirc the closest I got was "<someone> used to do this", and that was
> quite a while ago...)
I very much would like us to move away from /usr/local at some point.
There are HUGE benefits to doing that. For starters, most autoconf stuff
hardcodes /usr/local detection, so it would make detection of most things
explicit.
