On 09/05/2013 01:31 PM, Doug Goldstein wrote: > Given /run's adoption and rationale [1] and a number of autotools based > projects that need to refer to their PID or other run-time data that > typically appears in /var/run (e.g. libvirt). There should be a good > standardized way to specify the path for the run-time data. Currently many > use localstatedir + "/run", which results in PREFIX/var/run by default. > Most distro build systems set localstatedir to /var, resulting in /var/run. > However that is not the correct directory and its relying on the fact that > popular distros are currently providing a symlink from /var/run to /run. > The reality is that configure should add --rundir to allow Linux distros to > set it to /run and for other platforms that have not adopted /run, they > could continue to use /var/run. > > Hopefully this makes sense but if you need more information or rationale > I'll be glad to discuss this further. > > Thank you. > > [1] http://lwn.net/Articles/436012/ >
More precisely, I think this patch would be appropriate. If it goes in,
then I will focus on getting autoconf 2.70 released with support for
--rundir.
Index: standards/make-stds.texi
===================================================================
RCS file: /sources/gnustandards/gnustandards/make-stds.texi,v
retrieving revision 1.64
diff -u -r1.64 make-stds.texi
--- standards/make-stds.texi 13 Jul 2012 17:00:17 -0000 1.64
+++ standards/make-stds.texi 5 Sep 2013 19:45:49 -0000
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
@cindex standards for makefiles
@c Copyright 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001,
-@c 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+@c 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
@c
@c Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
@c under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3
@@ -518,6 +518,15 @@
should normally be @file{/usr/local/var}, but write it as
@file{$(prefix)/var}.
(If you are using Autoconf, write it as @samp{@@localstatedir@@}.)
+
+@item rundir
+The directory for installing data files which the programs modify while
+they run, that pertain to one specific machine, and which do not need
+to persist longer than the execution of the program. @file{$(rundir)}
+should default to @file{$(localstatedir)/run}, although having it as
+a separate variable allows distributions to favor the use of
+@file{/run} instead of @file{/var/run} for distribution installs.
+(If you are using Autoconf 2.70, write it as @samp{@@rundir@@}.)
@end table
These variables specify the directory for installing certain specific
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Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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