Jim Lynch wrote: > I'd really like a way to enable this for specific applications, not > as a site default. ... ... ... If not, I'll just have to go back to > my cludgy way of adding my own rules to copy it to a hard coded > /etc, (Ugh).
What I do is to keep a configure.sh script in the parent directory with all of the options that I want specified. Then when configuring those special applications I run the script. This makes it more self-documenting what I am doing and I can remember it later. Example "../configure.sh" script: #!/bin/sh -x PATH=/usr/local/build/coreutils/bin:$PATH ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/build/coreutils "$@" Then in my build directory: sh ../configure.sh make make check make install In your case you would want to set --sysconfdir=/etc. Something like this: #!/bin/sh -x ./configure --sysconfdir=/etc "$@" Bob
