I have a package that really needs to have a configurable location of it's configuration files. This would be possible by putting them in $sysconfdir, but for some reason I am yet to come close to understanding, $sysconfdir is set to $prefix/etc which is not a good place to put config files in the general case, so in adding configurability, I break the build for the average user who justs wants to type ./configure without arguments.
Is there a way of setting the default value of an argument to configure? It seems that argument processing is forced before it is possible to set the value of a variable. Or if someone can explain to me another way of easily configuring a config file path from configure. Thanks,
