On Aug 26, 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Greg A. Woods) wrote:
> In any case if "sysconfdir" means what it says, i.e. "system
> configuration directory",
Only if you think of a system as a host. I think of a system as a
set of hosts on which the same set of policies apply. In this case, a
shared configuration directory is precisely The Right Thing (TM).
> then it must default to /etc (i.e. without $(prefix) prepended) on
> any unix or unix-like system that I know of.
Installing anything outside $(prefix) is wrong, unless explicitly
requested by the user. I'd say it's ok to install something in
$(sysconfdir) = $(prefix)/etc and look for it at run-time in
$(localsysconfdir) = /etc, as long as some option is given to the user
to override $(localsysconfdir), at configure time and/or at run time.
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