On 06/18/2014 08:19 AM, Gavin Smith wrote: > On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 3:47 AM, Michael Lueck > <mlu...@lueckdatasystems.com> wrote: >> Prefix, building the program with non root permissions to be run in the >> context of a user's home directory. >> >> PID file, generally defaults to /var/run, however in this case permissions >> are not granted to /var/run. One could assume ~/var/run would be the proper >> place for the PID file. >> >> Building a certain OSS/FS app fails when being built with a prefix >> specified, as /var/run is still assumed for the PID file. I hacked the >> source code to obtain ability to target ~/var/run for the PID file, and the >> program works as expected. >> > It depends on the build system of the program in question, but it > looks like "localstatedir" is the preferred makefile variable for this > directory, and is as an autoconf output variable. It should be set > automatically from whatever "prefix" directory was specified.
Actually, autoconf 2.70 (if I ever get time to release it) supports a
new --runstatedir option, which defaults to ${localstatedir}/run; but it
should be preferred over direct use of $localstatedir because some
distros want to stick --runstatedir at /run in stead of /var/run.
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Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266
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